The Surgeon Scientist Program remains an important component of our Departmental activities. More than twenty-five surgical residents were involved in the past academic year, representing all the surgical specialties and working in the areas of fundamental biology, education, clinical epidemiology and health administration. The research work by these young individuals continues to bring local, national and international recognition to our Department, as evidenced by their excellent publications and their competitiveness for grants and awards. These are too numerous to fully list, but in aggregate, they demonstrate the quality of science being performed within the Department.
Some noteworthy awards are as follows.
Finally, this year's Bernard Langer Surgeon Scientist Award recipient, given to the most worthy recent graduate of the Surgeon Scientist Program, was David Hackam. The Gallie-Bateman resident research competition was again a great success. This year's competition was judged by Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr., the Cole Professor, Department of Surgery at Cornell University, New York. His Gordon Murray Lecture highlighting the management of adrenal masses was of great interest to all in attendance. Ten excellent resident papers were presented.