Paper of the Year Award Recipients

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The New England Surgical Society recognizes a Paper of the Year at its Annual Meeting. The paper so designated must be one of the highest-cited manuscripts, published during the previous five calendar years, for which an Active or Senior NESS member was the first or last author. In the following, only the NESS-member first and/or last author(s) are listed; click the link for each paper to view the full author string.

2019	Lessons Learned From the Study of 10,000 Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcoma Murray F. Brennan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2018	Genomic Responses in Mouse Models Poorly Mimic Human Inflammatory Diseases Ronald G. Tompkins Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2017	Comparison of a Lymph Node Ratio-Based Staging System with the 7th AJCC System for Gastric Cancer Analysis of 18,043 Patients from the SEER Database Sam S. Yoon Massachusetts General Hospital
2016	CO-AWARDS Prognosis of Invasive Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm Depends on Histological and Precursor Epithelial Subtypes Sarah P. Thayer Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy has Morbidity and Effectiveness Positioned between the Band and the Bypass Matthew M. Hutter Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2015	Regeneration and Orthotopic Transplantation of a Bioartificial Lung *Harald C. Ott, Joseph P. Vacanti Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2014	A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population Atul A. Gawande Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group
2013	Epidermal Growth Factor Gene Functional Polymorphism and the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Cirrhosis Kenneth K. Tanabe Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA