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Honorary Fellowship in the 51黑料 was awarded to nine prominent surgeons from around the world at the October 3 Convocation at the virtual Clinical Congress 2020. The granting of Honorary Fellowships is one of the highlights of Clinical Congress. This year鈥檚 recipients were as follows.

• Prof. Wilhelmus 鈥淲illem鈥� A. Bemelman, MD, Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands, sponsored by Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS, New York, NY
• Andr茅 Jan Louis D鈥橦oore, MD, PhD, Leuven, Belgium, sponsored by Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS, New York, NY
• Antonio Di Cataldo, MD, Catania, Italy, sponsored by Barbara Lee Bass, MD, FACS, Washington, DC
• Jos茅 Manuel F谩brega Sosa, MD, FACS, FSSO, APMC, Panama City, Republic of Panama, sponsored by Richard D. Schulick, MD, MBA, FACS, Aurora, CO
• Manfred Frey, MD, Vienna, Austria, sponsored by William M. Kuzon, Jr., MD, PhD, FACS, Ann Arbor, MI
• Seyed Ali Malek Hosseini, MD, Shiraz, Iran, sponsored by Mehmet Ali Haberal, MD, FACS(Hon), FICS(Hon), FASA(Hon), Ankara, Turkey
• Denis Mukengere Mukwege, MD, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, sponsored by Alan D. Garely, MD, FACS, New York, NY
• April Camilla Roslani, MBBS, MSurg, MRCSEd, FRCSEd, FRCSGlas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, sponsored by Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD(Hon), FACS, FRCSEng, FRCSEd, FRCSI(Hon), FRCSGlasg(Hon), Weston, FL
• S. Raja Sabapathy, MS(Gen), MCh, DNB(Plastic), DSc(Hon), FAMS, FRCSEd(Hon), FRCSGlas(Hon), Coimbatore, India, sponsored by L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, Philadelphia, PA

Sir Rickman Godlee, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, was awarded the first Honorary Fellowship in the ACS during the College鈥檚 first Convocation in 1913. Since then, nearly 500 internationally prominent surgeons, including the nine chosen this year, have been named Honorary Fellows of the ACS. Following are the citations presented at the Convocation.