Johnstown native receives Outstanding Resident Award

Dr. Marla A. Sacks has been awarded the 2024 Dr. Hilary Sanfey Outstanding Resident Award, formerly the Association of Women Surgeons Outstanding Resident Award, at the recent AWS Foundation Awards Dinner and Gala in San Francisco.

Awardees are surgical trainees who are in primary residency training in either general surgery or a surgical specialty at the time of nomination, and who demonstrate potential as future leaders in surgery, according to AWS.

She is the chief surgery resident at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York.

Sacks, born in Johnstown and a graduate of Greater Latrobe High School, is the daughter of Dave and Barbara Sacks, formerly of Johnstown.

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