SAGES Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs

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Committee	Member Name	Institution/Title	Location	Position	Chair	CoChair
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Michael Cripps	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Surgery	Aurora, Co United States	Chair	0
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Andre Campbell	UCSF, School of Medicine UCSF, Dept of Surgery	San Francisco, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Michael Truitt		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Sara Hennessy		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Advocacy and Health Policy	Scott Roth	Univ of KY Dept of Gen Surgery	Lexington, KY United States	Co-Chair		0
Advocacy and Health Policy	Ann Rogers	Penn State Hershey Medical Center Prof. of Surgery; Vice Chair for Leadership &	Hershey, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Ozanan Meireles	Massachusetts General Hospital Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Chair	0
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Daniel Hashimoto	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Surgery	Philadelphia, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Awards	John Romanelli	Baystate Med Ctr Medical Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surg Pr	Springfield, MA United States	Chair	0
Bylaws	Henry Lin	Erie County Medical Center/ University of Buffalo Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery	Buffalo, NY United States	Chair	0
Colorectal	Elisabeth McLemore	Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Chief, Colorectal Surgery	Los Angeles, CA United States	Chair	0
Colorectal	Mark Whiteford	Oregon Clinic Div of Gastrointestinal and MIS	Portland, OR United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal	Marylise Boutros		Kirkland, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Kellie McFarlin		Detroit, MI United States	Chair	0
Communications	Erin Gilbert	Oregon Health and Science Univ Assistant Professor Department of General Surgery	Portland, OR United States	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Andrew Wright	Univ of Washington Dept of Surgery	Seattle, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Community Practice	Caitlin Halbert	Christiana Care Health System Dept of Gen Surgery	Wilmington, DE United States	Chair	0
Community Practice	Kevin Wasco		Neenah, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Community Practice	Robert Catania	Southern New Hampshire Weight Management Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Nashua, NH United States	Co-Chair		0
Community Practice	Mercedeh Baghai	Torrance Memorial Hospital Attending Surgeon	Torrance, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Conflict of Interest	Caroline Reinke		Charlotte, NC United States	Chair	0
Conflict of Interest	Prashant Sinha		New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Conflict of Interest	Peter Denk		Bonita Springs, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	Yong Choi	BSLMG - CHI St. Luke\'s The Woodlands General Surgery	The Woodlands, TX United States	Chair	0
Continuing Education	Alan Harzman	The Ohio State University Associate Professor of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	Meredith Duke	Vanderbilt University Medical Center Assistant Professor	Nashville, TN United States	Co-Chair		0
Development	Garth Jacobsen	University of California San Diego Professor of Surgery	Rancho Santa Fe, CA United States	Chair	0
Development	Anne Lidor	Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Chief, Div of MIS	Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Development	Kyle Perry	The Ohio State Univ Asst Prof of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Diversity, Leadership and Professional Development Task Force	Alia Qureshi	Oregon Health and Sciences University Associate Professor of Surgery	Lake Oswego, OR United States	Chair	0
Diversity, Leadership and Professional Development Task Force	Hope Jackson		Washington, DC United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	E. Matthew Ritter	IU Health / School of Medicine Professor of Surgery	Indianapolis, IN United States	Chair	0
Education Council - Assessment and Program Evaluation Group	Denise Gee	MA General Hsp Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council - Assessment and Program Evaluation Group	Carlos Gomez-Garibello	McGill University Medicine	Montreal, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0
Education Council - Curriculum Development and Instruction Group	Michael Awad	Washington Univ Sch of Med Dept of Surgery - MIS	St. Louis, MO United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council - Curriculum Development and Instruction Group	James Korndorffer	Stanford University Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery	Palo Alto, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council - Educational Business and Technology Group	Christina Sanders	Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo General Hospit Assistant Professor of Surgery, University at Buff	Orchard Park, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council - Educational Business and Technology Group	Jacob Greenberg	Duke University Hospital Associate Professor	Durham, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Michael Ujiki	NorthShore Univ Health System Dept of Surgery	Evanston, IL United States	Chair	0
Educational Resources	Eleanor Fung	University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biome Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery	Williamsville, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Philip Omotosho	Rush University Medical Center Associate Professor of Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Ethics	Limaris Barrios		Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Finance	Christopher Schlachta	University Hospital Professor, Departments of Surgery and Oncology	London, ON Canada	Chair	0
Finance	David Tichansky	Reading Hospital - Tower Health Professor and Interim Academic Chair-Drexel; Chair	Reading, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Flexible Endoscopy	James Ellsmere	Dalhousie University General Surgery	Halifax, NS Canada	Chair	0
Flexible Endoscopy	Eleanor Fung	University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biome Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery	Williamsville, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Flexible Endoscopy	Ryan Juza		Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Flexible Endoscopy	Amber Shada	University of Wisconsin Associate Professor	Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut	Jon Gould	Medical College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Chair	0
Foregut	Marina Kurian		New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut	Ruchir Puri	University of Florida Associate Professor, Dept. of General Surgery	Jacksonville, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy	Thomas Robinson		Bow Mar, CO United States	Chair	0
Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy	Jaisa Olasky	Mt Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School Dept of Surgery	Cambridge, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Eric Pauli	Penn State Hershey Medical Center David L Nahrwold Professor of Surgery	Hershey, PA United States	Chair	0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Erika Fellinger		Everett, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Diya Alaedeen	Cleveland Clinic Chair, Dept. of Surgery, Fairview Hospital, Clevel	Fairview Park, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Ezra Teitelbaum	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicin Assistant Professor of Surgery and Medical Educati	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery	Melina Vassiliou	McGill Univ Dept of Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Chair	0
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery	Neal Seymour	Baystate Health Chief Div of General Surgery	Springfield, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery	Allan Okrainec	University of Toronto - University Health Network Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship	Toronto, ON Canada	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Linda Zhang	Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Global Affairs	Abier Abdelnaby		Bronx, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Maria Bailez	Garrahan Children\'s Hospital Department of Surgery		Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Bethany Slater	University of Chicago Medicine Pediatric Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Chair	0
Guidelines	Francesco Palazzo	Thomas Jefferson University Dept of Surgery	Philadelphia, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Geoffrey Kohn		Melbourne, VIC Australia	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Tammy Kindel		Mikwaukee, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Danielle Walsh	University of Kentucky Children\'s Hospital Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery for Quality an	Greenville, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia	Matthew Goldblatt	Med College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Chair	0
Hernia	Jeffrey Blatnik	Barnes - Jewish Hospital Department of Surgery - Section of Minimally Invas	Twin and Country, MO United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia	Mercedeh Baghai	Torrance Memorial Hospital Attending Surgeon	Torrance, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ	Adnan Alseidi	University of California, San Francisco Vice Chair of Education	San Francisco, CA United States	Chair	0
HPB/Solid Organ	Melissa Hogg		Evanston, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ	Kevin El-Hayek	MetroHealth System Staff	Cleveland, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ	Dhiresh Jeyarajah	Methodist Richardson Cancer Center Medical Education	Richardson, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ	Eugene Ceppa	Indiana University School of Medicine Associate Professor of Surgery	Indianapolis, IN United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Maria Altieri	University of Pennsylvani Assistant Professor	Glen Mills, PA United States	Chair	0
Membership	Debbie Youngelman	Gen Surg - Cap Reg Health Park Community Care Physicians, PC	Latham, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Nabeel Obeid	Michigan Medicine Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery	Chelsea, MI United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Matthew Kroh	Cleveland Clinic Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute	Cleveland, OH United States	Chair	0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Farah Husain	Banner University of Arizona PHX Bariatric Surgery	Scottsdale, AZ United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Thadeus Trus	Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr Dept of Surgery	Lebanon, NH United States	Co-Chair		0
Military	Andrew Schlussel		Fort Gordon, GA United States	Chair
Military	Tamara Worlton		Silver Spring, MD United States	Co-Chair		0
Nominating	Horacio Asbun	Miami Cancer Institute Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery	Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Oncology Task Force	John Marks	Lankenau Medical Center Chief, Colon and Rectal Surgery	Wynnewood, PA United States	Chair	0
Oncology Task Force	Thomas Aloia	Ascension Health VP, Director of Oncology Services	Pearland, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Oncology Task Force	Vivian Strong	Mem Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr Dept of Surgery/Gastric Mixed Tumor Serv	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Pediatrics	Stefan Scholz	Children`s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC General and Thoracic Pediatric Surgery	Pittsburgh, PA United States	Chair	0
Pediatrics	Diana Diesen	UT Southwestern- Childrens Health Dallas Department of Surgery; Division of Pediatric Surge	Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Pediatrics	Bethany Slater	University of Chicago Medicine Pediatric Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Program	Melissa Phillips	University Surgeons Associates Associate Professor	Knoxville, TN United States	Chair	0
Program	KMarie King	Albany Medical Center Chair, Department of Surgery, Chief of Surgery	Albany, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Publications	S. Scott Davis Jr	Emory University Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery	Atlanta, GA United States	Chair	0
Publications	Kinga Powers	Stony Brook University Hospital Division of Bariatric, Foregut and Advanced Gastro	Stony Brook, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Publications	Nova Szoka	West Virginia University Assistant Professor	Morgantown, WV United States	Co-Chair		0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Jonathan Dort	Inova Fairfax Hospital Vice Chairman of Education and Director, Surgery R	Falls Church, VA United States	Chair	0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Deborah Keller	Marks Colorectal Surgical Associates, Lankenau Med Clinical Associate Professor	Wynnewood, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Re-Imagining the Practice of Surgery Task Force	Horacio Asbun	Miami Cancer Institute Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery	Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Re-Imagining the Practice of Surgery Task Force	Edward Auyang	Univ of New Mexico Chief, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Su	Albuquerque, NM United States	Co-Chair		0
Re-Imagining the Practice of Surgery Task Force	James Bittner		Bloomfield, CT United States	Co-Chair		0
Research and Career Development	Christopher DuCoin	University of South Florida Division of Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Sur	Tampa, Fl United States	Chair	0
Research and Career Development	Anjali Kumar		Spokane, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Research and Career Development	Konstantinos Spaniolas	Stony Brook School of Medicine Dept of Surgery	Stony Brook, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Michael Awad	Washington Univ Sch of Med Dept of Surgery - MIS	St. Louis, MO United States	Chair	0
Resident and Fellow Training	Brian Davis	Texas Tech Paul L Foster School of Medicine Professor and Residency Program Director /Dept of	El Paso, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Denise Gee	MA General Hsp Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Jacob Greenberg	Duke University Hospital Associate Professor	Durham, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Ankit Patel		Decatur, GA United States	Chair	0
Robotics	Omar Yusef Kudsi	Good Samaritan Medical Center, Tufts Univ. Associate Professor of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Vedra Augenstein		Charlotte, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Safe Chole Task Force	Federico Serrot	Emory University Surgery	Atlanta, GA United States	Chair	0
Safe Chole Task Force	Eduardo Moreno-Paquentin	Av. Carlos Graef Fernandez 154 Dept of Gen Surgery		Co-Chair		0
Surgical Data Science Task Force	Amin Madani	University Health Network - Toronto General Hospit Surgery	Toronto, ON Canada	Chair	0
Surgical Data Science Task Force	Aurora Pryor	Stony Brook University Professor of Surgery	Stony Brook, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology and Value Assessment	David Renton	The Ohio State Univ Associate Prof Dept of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Chair	0
Technology and Value Assessment	David Pechman		Bay Shore, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology Council	Christopher Schlachta	University Hospital Professor, Departments of Surgery and Oncology	London, ON Canada	Chair	0
Technology Council	Daniel Herron	Mount Sinai School of Med Professor	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology Council	Dan Azagury	Stanford University School of Medicine Chief, Section of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric	Stanford, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology Council - Digital Surgery Group	Dmitry Oleynikov	Monmouth Medical Center Chairman, Department of Surgery	Long Branch, NJ United States	Chair	0
Technology Council - Fluorescence Imaging Group	Robert Lim	Oklahoma University Physicians Tulsa Department of Surgery	Tulsa, OK United States	Chair	0

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