Muriel Steele Society Announces Awards Honoring Pioneering and Influential Women in Surgery
This spring, the Muriel Steele Society announced the inaugural recipients of its two annual awards honoring pioneering and influential women in surgery. Please join us in congratulating all of these inspiring women!
The Muriel Steele Society Award
The Muriel Steele Society Award is voted on by the senior residents and given annually at the Chief Resident Graduation to a woman faculty member who embodies the spirit of Muriel Steele - a woman working to identify and address the unmet needs among our surgical patients and whose research and/or clinical work is shifting the paradigms within our field in order to positively impact the experiences and outcomes of our current and future patients.
This year, the inaugural MSS Award was given to Jasleen Kukreja, MD, MPH. Dr. Kukreja immigrated to the US from India at the age of 19 after receiving her Masters Degree in molecular biology and biochemistry. She went on to get a second bachelors degree from UC Irvine, complete medical school at UCLA and residency in general surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was the first woman to graduate from the Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at UCSF and went on pursue advanced training in minimally invasive lobectomy at Cedars-Sinai.
At UCSF, she has been a true pioneer, leading the way in minimally invasive lung resections, expanding the breadth of the cardiothoracic surgery program, catapulting the lung transplant program to the elite level at which it now operates, and pushing the boundaries with ex-vivo lung perfusion and ECMO. In addition to all this, her dedication to her patients is unmatched; she is easily one of the most available, responsive, detail oriented, and caring physicians at this institution. She continually strives to improve patient experiences and outcomes and perfectly embodies the trailblazing spirit of Muriel Steele.
Strength in numbers and community. Thanks to each and every one of you who is pushing and pulling others up. #Sisterhood @WomenSurgeons #criticalmass @UCSF @UCSFSurgery @UCSFMedicine @WomenSurgeons https://t.co/lO3jbDW9wm
— Julie A Sosa (@Jasosamd) June 7, 2019
The Muriel Steele Society Honor Roll
The annual Muriel Steele Society Honor Roll celebrates influential and inspiring women faculty, fellows and residents in surgery and surgical sub-specialties. Current trainees (both residents and medical students) are invited to nominate women who have had a positive impact on their training and the nominees are recognized at our annual Women in Surgery Reception. This years nominees are listed below.
UCSF General Surgery
- Nancy Ascher, MD, PhD
- Tasce Bongiovanni, MD, MPP, MHS
- Hillary Braun, MD
- Ariane Christie, MD
- Isabelle Chumfong Le Leannec, MD, MEng
- Patricia Conroy, MD
- Emily Finlayson, MD, MS
- Clara Gomez-Sanchez, MD
- Barbara Hamilton, MD
- Jade Hiramoto, MD
- Yvonne Kelly, MD
- Lucy Kornblith, MD
- Elizabeth Lancaster, MD
- Carter Lebares, MD
- Marisa Pulcrano, MD
- Sanziana Roman, MD
- Amanda Sammann, MD, MPH
- Carolyn Seib, MD, MAS
- Nichole Starr, MD, MPH
- Lygia Stewart, MD
- Elaine Tseng, MD
- Mika Varma, MD
- Lan Vu, MD
- Laura Wong, MD, PhD
- Gavitt Woodard, MD
UCSF East Bay General Surgery
Katherine Stern, MD
UCSF ENT
Nina Zhao, MD
UCSF OB/GYN
Joanne Gras, DO
UCSF OMFS
Jennifer Perkins, DDS, MD
UCSF Ophthalmology
Julie Schallhorn, MD, MS
UCSF Orthopedics
Nicole Schroeder, MD
UCSF/CHO Orthopedics
Coleen Sabatini, MD, MPH
Kaiser Oakland General Surgery
Francisca Maertens, MD
UCSF Urology
Sima Porten, MD, MPH
Bogdana Schmidt, MD, MPH
“See it to believe you can be it”
— Muriel Steele Society (@UCSFMSS) June 7, 2019
Tonight we saw at the annual @UCSF @UCSFHospitals #WomenInSurgery event
From Dr. Nancy Ascher to Dr. Julie Ann Sosa & many more
An awe-inspiring group of current & future female 🚺 leaders in surgery 😷#TheFutureIsBright ☀️#ILookLikeASurgeon pic.twitter.com/EC2rARwQGZ