Paper of the Year Award Recipients

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The New England Surgical Society will select annually a “Paper of the Year” for presentation at the Annual Meeting. The paper so designated represents the most impactful paper published five years prior to the meeting with an actively participating NESS member as the first or last author; each such author must have been an actively participating member at the time of publication and still be an actively participating member at the time of the Paper of the Year presentation. Impact is determined by the number of citations of the manuscript in addition to a vote by the Program Committee. Annually, the Recorder of the NESS shall determine the ten most cited papers published five years prior to the Annual Meeting that meet the above guidelines. The Recorder will submit this list for review and vote by the Program Committee. The NESS member/author will be invited and encouraged to give a podium presentation of their work at the annual meeting.

2021	Variability in Patterns of Recurrence after Resection of Primary Retroperitoneal Sarcoma (RPS) A Report on 1007 Patients from the Multi-institutional Collaborative RPS Working Group Chandrajit Raut Brigham and Women's Hospital and Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2020	Radiological and Surgical Implications of Neoadjuvant Treatment With FOLFIRINOX for Locally Advanced and Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Carlos Fernández-del Castillo Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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