Corrigan McBride, MD, chief of the UNMC Division of General Surgery, MIS and Bariatric Surgery, has been awarded the 2025 Harvey S. Sugarman Master Educator Award by the Treatment, Research and Education to End Obesity (TREO) Foundation/American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
The foundation and society honored Dr. McBride for what the organizations called “her intense engagement in bariatric fellow education.”
Dr. McBride, a practicing bariatric surgeon for 23 years, has served in multiple leadership roles in the ASMBS, including the chair of the Bariatric Surgery Training Committee and the board of directors.
In this capacity, she led the efforts to transform bariatric fellowship education into a competency-based model, including a rewrite of the curriculum, formulation and rollout of Entrustable Professional Activities related to bariatric surgery, as well as participating on a task force that has updated the bariatric fellowship graduation requirements.
She is on the board of directors of the fellowship council that certifies all the Bariatric Fellowships in the U.S. and Canada and currently chairs the accreditation committee.
The award has been given in the past. But this is the first year it has been given under the name the Harvey S. Sugarman Award, after a past president of ASMBS and a leader in bariatric research and education.
“I am honored to receive the inaugural Harvey S. Sugarman Master Educator Award,” Dr. McBride said. “Dr. Sugarman was a mentor of mine as I developed into a metabolic and bariatric surgeon. He was a remarkable man who truly believed in how bariatric surgery can change patients’ lives, and his passion as a surgeon and an educator has always been one of my inspirations.”