An Update from AWS Past President Amalia Cochran: State of the Woman Surgeon in 2016.
While there are now a handful of women heading up surgical departments in the United States and Canada, we still have a long way to go. The women below are paving the way for others like them and their accomplishments exemplify the AWS mission to inspire, encourage, and enable women surgeons to realize their professional and personal goals. We celebrate their success!
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Nita Ahuja, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Yale School of Medicine and Chief of Surgery
Yale New Haven Hospital
AWS Member since 2014
Barbara Bass, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Houston Methodist Hospital
AWS Member since 1990
Sharmila Dissanaike, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
AWS Member since 2016
Diana Farmer, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
UC Davis
AWS Member since 2016
Vivian Gahtan, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Loyola University Chicago
AWS Member since 1990
Amy Goldberg, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
AWS Member since 2001
Mary Hawn, MD, MPH, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery
Stanford Medicine Department of Surgery
AWS Member since 2016
Melina Kibbe, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
AWS Member since 1997
Mary T. Killackey, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Tulane University
Robert and Viola Lobrano Chair in Surgery
AWS Member since 2005
Christine Lau, MD, MBA
Chair of the Department of Surgery
UMSOM
Chief of Surgery
University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC)
Anne Meziat-Burdin, MD
Professor et chef, Department of Surgery
Universite de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Quebec
Rebecca Minter, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
AWS Member since 2017
Anne Mosenthal, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
AWS Member since 2013
Susan E. Reid, BA, MD, FRCS(C)
Chair, Department of Surgery
Health Sciences at McMaster University
AWS Member since 2012
Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery
University of Arizona Cancer Center
AWS Member since 2016
Carmen Solórzano, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Vanderbilt
Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS
Leon Goldman MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and
Chair, Department of Surgery at University of California at San Francisco
AWS Member since 2016
Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Surgery, BUSM
Chief of Surgery at BMC
J.E. "Betsy" Tuttle-Newhall, MD.
Chair, Department of Surgery
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
AWS Member since 1997
Omaida Velazquez, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
University of Miami Hospital
AWS Member since 2015
Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS
Chair, Department of Surgery
Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock
AWS Member since 2013
Former Chairs
Nancy Ascher, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Surgery
University of California San Francisco
AWS Member since 2011
Julie Freischlag, MD
Chair, Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery (2003-2015)
Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences (2015-present)
Dean, School of Medicine
University of California, Davis
AWS Member since 1990
Olga Jonasson, MD (1934-2006)
Chair, Ohio State University College of Medicine (1987-1993)
Dr. Olga Jonasson was the first woman in the United States to chair an academic department of surgery.
Mary Maniscalco-Theberge, MD, FACS
First Female Chair of Surgery
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
AWS member since 2007
Mary McCarthy, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery
Wright State Physicians
AWS Member since 1989
Heidi Nelson, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
Mayo Clinic
Leigh Neumayer, MD, MS
Chair, Department of Surgery
University of Arizona Cancer Center
AWS Member since 1990
Patricia L. Roberts, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Chair, Division of Surgery
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
AWS Member since 2017
Carol Scott-Conner, MD
Chair, University of Iowa College of Medicine (1995-2004)
Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (present)
AWS Member since 1990
Martha A. Zeiger, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
University of Virginia School of Medicine
AWS Member since 2010
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