SSAT Founders Medal honors individuals for career-long leadership, service, and dedication to the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, recognizing sustained contributions rather than funding research.
SSAT Career Development Award for Clinical/Outcomes/Education Research supports young surgical faculty in digestive disease research and training to advance their projects and develop their research careers.
Rikkers Master Clinician Award honors an outstanding clinical surgeon in the SSAT for excellence and sustained contributions to clinical surgery, recognizing achievement rather than funding research.
Career Development Award supports early-career surgical faculty with basic laboratory research or rigorous clinical investigation in digestive diseases to help establish their research careers.
SSAT Public Service Award recognizes individuals and organizations for public service in gastrointestinal health promotion, education, and awareness, helping medical and lay audiences understand or cope.