# American Surgical Association

The American Surgical Association is the oldest surgical organization in the United States.

## History

It was founded in 1880. Their publication, Annals of Surgery, was started in 1885.
A collection of the association's papers are held at the National Library of Medicine.

## Heads

* Samuel D. Gross (1880)
* Edward Mott Moore (1883)
* William Thompson Briggs (1884)
* Moses Gunn (1885)
* Hunter McGuire (1886)
* David Hayes Agnew (1887)
* David Williams Cheever (1888)
* David W. Yandell (1889)
* Claudius Henry Mastin (1890)
* Phineas Sanborn Conner (1891)
* Nicholas Senn (1892)
* James Ewing Mears (1893)
* Frederic Shepard Dennis (1894)
* Louis McLane Tiffany (1895)
* John Collins Warren (1896)
* Theodore F. Prewitt (1897)
* William W. Keen (1898)
* Robert F. Weir (1899)
* Roswell Park (1900)
* Deforest Willard (1901)
* Maurice H. Richardson (1902)
* Nathaniel P. Dandridge (1903)
* George Ben Johnston (1904)
* Albert Vander Veer (1905)
* Dudley Peter Allen (1906)
* William H. Carmalt (1907)
* C. B. De Nancre´ De (1908)
* Rudolph Matas (1909)
* Richard H. Harte (1910)
* Arpad G. Gerster (1911)
* Charles A. Powers (1912)
* William James Mayo (1913)
* George E. Armstrong (1914)
* Robert G. Leconte (1915)
* Samuel J. Mixter (1916)
* Thomas W. Huntington (1917)
* Lewis S. Pilcher (1918)
* George Emerson Brewer (1919)
* John B. Roberts (1920)
* John Miller Turpin Finney (1921)
* L. L. McArthur (1922)
* George Washington Crile (1923)
* Albert J. Ochsner (1924)
* John H. Gibbon Sr. (1925)
* Harvey Cushing (1926)
* Emmet Rixford (1927)
* Ellsworth Eliot Jr. (1928)
* Fred B. Lund (1929)
* Alexander Primrose (1930)
* Charles Horace Mayo (1931)
* Arthur Dean Bevan (1932)
* Daniel Fiske Jones (1933)
* Edward William Archibald (1934)
* Eugene H. Pool (1935)
* Evarts Ambrose Graham (1936)
* Arthur W. Elting (1937)
* Dallas B. Phemister (1938)
* Allen Whipple (1939)
* David Cheever (1940)
* Harvey B. Stone (1941)
* Vernon C. David (1942)
* Frederick A. Coller (1943)
* William Darrach (1944–45)
* Edward Delos Churchill (1946)
* Elliott Cutler (1947)
* William Gallie (1947)
* Fred Wharton Rankin (1948)
* Thomas G. Orr (1949)
* Samuel Clark Harvey (1950)
* Daniel C. Elkin (1951)
* Robert S. Dinsmore (1952)
* Howard Christian Naffziger (1953)
* John Heysham Gibbon (1954)
* Alfred Blalock (1955)
* Loyal Davis (1956)
* John H. Mulholland (1957)
* I. S. Ravdin (1958)
* Warren Henry Cole (1959)
* John D. Stewart (1960)
* J. Englebert Dunphy (1961)
* Oliver Cope (1962)
* Warfield M. Firor (1963)
* Robert M. Zollinger (1964)
* Leland S. McKittrick (1965)
* Oscar Creech Jr. (1966)
* William P. Longmire Jr. (1967)
* Owen Harding Wangensteen (1968)
* William A. Altemeier (1969)
* William D. Holden (1970)
* Francis Daniels Moore (1971)
* Jonathan E. Rhoads (1972)
* H. William Scott Jr. (1973)
* William H. Muller Jr. (1974)
* James Hardy (1975)
* Claude E. Welch (1976)
* David Sabiston (1977)
* Oliver H. Beahrs (1978)
* Tom Shires (1979)
* James V. Maloney Jr. (1980)
* C. Rollins Hanlon (1981)
* W. Dean Warren (1982)
* Mark M. Ravitch (1983)
* Eugene M. Bricker (1984)
* W. Gerald Austen (1985)
* Charles George Drake (1986)
* Henry T. Bahnson (1987)
* John Najarian (1988)
* John A. Mannick (1989)
* Robert Zeppa (1990)
* James C. Thompson (1991)
* Lloyd D. MacLean (1992)
* Seymour I. Schwartz (1993)
* George F. Sheldon (1994)
* Samuel A. Wells Jr. (1995)
* Clyde F. Barker (1996)
* Frank C. Spencer (1997)
* Lazar J. Greenfield (1998)
* Basil A. Pruitt Jr. (1999)
* John L. Cameron (2000)
* Haile Debas (2001)
* Murray Brennan (2002)
* R. Scott Jones (2003)
* Hiram Polk (2004)
* Carlos Alberto Pellegrini (2005)
* Jay L. Grosfeld (2006)
* Courtney M. Townsend Jr. (2007)
* Anthony D. Whittemore (2008)
* Donald Trunkey (2009)
* Kirby I. Bland (2010)
* Timothy J. Eberlein (2011)
* L.D. Britt (2012)
* Layton F. Rikkers (2013)
* Anna M. Ledgerwood (2014)
* James S. Economou (2015)
* Keith D. Lillemoe (2016)
* Ronald V. Maier (2017)
* E. Christopher Ellison (2018)
* Robin S. McLeod (2019, 2020)
* Selwyn M. Vickers (2021)
* Diana L. Farmer (2022)

## Awards

* American Surgical Association Foundation Fellowship Research Award
* ASA Medallion for Scientific Achievement
* ASA Flance-Karl Award