UAB has been selected to host the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS), which will be held Sept. 21-22, 2017. The UAB Department of Surgery is proud to host this meeting, which will be the second SAAS Annual Meeting held. The Society was founded in 2011 to focus on the personal and professional development of Asian academic surgeons with the belief that the best way to increase Asian representation in the leadership of academic surgery is to prepare future generations to succeed. Jayleen Grams, MD,PhD, is the local organizing member and Herb Chen, MD, Chair of the UAB Department of Surgery, is a founding member of SAAS.