ATPs are vital to the transplant team and community, and ASTS recognizes their service to the transplant professionals and transplant patients through the ATP Award. This award recognizes the individual for their time and effort dedicated to advancing clinical practice through translation of scientific information, development of standards, and clinical mentoring by the ATP.
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The ASTS seeks to recognize a distinguished ASTS member, particularly underrepresented faculty members, whose service and/or scholarly work has significant impact and garnered national and international distinction. The ASTS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award is an official academic recognition that the awardee has made impactful contributions to the ASTS.
Special preference will be given to ASTS members who advance the society’s strategic focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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This award acknowledges the efforts of established surgeons for their stewardship of fellowship trainees and junior faculty, in contrast to the Pipeline Award that recognizes mentorship efforts directed at medical students and residents. The recipient will be recognized during the Awards Ceremony at the Winter Symposium.
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Maintaining a community of excellence in transplantation requires the ongoing recruitment of outstanding students and residents to the field. The ASTS Pipeline Award recognizes an ASTS member who is dedicated to student and resident development through outreach, clinical engagement or research efforts. Each year, the Pipeline Taskforce will recognize the recipient during the Awards Ceremony at the Winter Symposium. This award is distinct from the Francis Moore mentorship award in that it recognizes mentorship efforts directed towards medical students and residents, in contrast to fellows and junior faculty.
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Transplantation has always been an academically oriented field. The decline in NIH funding, and the growing fiscal pressures requiring increased clinical productivity, both serve to disadvantage young transplant surgeons trying to secure NIH grants. Because of this, it is now more difficult for these young transplant surgeons to achieve promotion in tenure tracks, and to obtain tenure itself. However, promotion to Associate, or Full Professor, and the ability to obtain tenure still remain important goals for these individuals. Additionally, tenure track promotions committees may not appreciate the nature of original and seminal work that is of great importance to our field. Many institutions view federal funding as objective criteria to assess an individual’s body of scholarly work for originality, importance, and peer recognition. To demonstrate this in the absence of NIH funding, ASTS has established the "Rising Stars in Transplantation Surgery Award”, which gives recognition from the leading society of transplantation surgery that these individuals have made a significant, profound, or potentially transformative contribution to the discipline.
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The Sherilyn Gordon Memorial Travel Award was established in 2017 to provide travel assistance to medical students, general surgery residents, and advanced transplant providers for attendance at the Annual State of the Art Winter Symposium. The award was created in memory of ASTS member and transplant surgeon, Dr. Sherilyn Gordon, who was a mentor to and advocate for many trainees during her time at The Methodist Hospital of Houston, Texas. The award honors her dedication to transplantation, commitment to transplant patients, and passion for education. One award will be given annually to a medical student, a general surgery resident and an advanced transplant provider.
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ASTS recognizes and honors ASTS junior members for their efforts in basic and clinical research by awarding travel prizes to the annual State of the Art Winter Symposium. The Vanguard Prize is designed to identify the best clinical and basic research manuscripts from young investigators in the previous year. Recipients will be recognized during the Awards Ceremony at the Winter Symposium and will present their research during the Oral Abstract Session.
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