Faculty members from the Department of Surgery have received numerous awards and recognitions, including:

• The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Leonard Tow Humanism Award, 2015
• Audrey E. Streedain Regenerative Medicine Initiative Award, 2015
• US Navy National Ensign Operation Enduring Freedom Award
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Surgical Oncology
• Editor-in-Chief, Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation
• President, Midwest Surgical Association
• President, Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, 2014
• President, Pacific Coast Surgical Association, 2014
• Keynote Speaker, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong Critical Care Society, Shenzen, China, Nov. 2014
• New England Biolabs “Passion in Science” Award, Oct. 2014
• Robert Zeppa lectureship, University of Miami: Florida, Sept. 2014
• D. Charalambides lectureship, Cyprus Trauma Conference, June 2014
• Jacobi lectureship 16th Annual Trauma/Emergency Medicine Symposium, May 2014
• The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, Keck School of Medicine of USC, 2014