The SSAT Cameron Oration is named in honor of John and Doris Cameron. Dr. John L. Cameron is a leader in gastrointestinal surgery and contributed greatly to many surgical organizations. His impact has been most substantial on the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. He served as SSAT President (1991-1992), received its highest honor, the SSAT Founder’s Medal, and perhaps most importantly played a major role in establishing the SSAT’s journal, the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery which has risen to be one of the top GI surgical journals in the world. The SSAT is thrilled to celebrate John and Doris’s contributions to the SSAT annually with the Cameron Oration at its Annual Meeting during DDW.
The SSAT honors Maja and Frank Moody with its Moody State of the Art Lecture each year during its Annual Meeting. Dr. Moody's contributions to gastrointestinal surgery were enormous. His research was continuously funded by the NIH from 1967-2009 in areas including gastric acid secretion, gastric ulcerogenesis, biliary stasis and cholesterol lithogenesis, ileus in multiple organ failure, and glucotoxicity and cardiac dysfunction in obesity. He became a member of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract in 1966 and served as Treasurer (1972-1975) and President (1981-1982) of the organization. Dr. Moody was honored in 1995 with the SSAT Founders' Medal and, in appreciation of his mentorship, former trainees endowed the "Maja and Frank G. Moody State of the Art Lecture" which is now delivered annually at the SSAT meeting during DDW.
