SAGES Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs

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Committee	Member Name	Institution/Title	Location	Position	Chair	CoChair
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Robert Lim	Tripler Army Med Ctr Dept of Gen Surgery	Honolulu, HI United States	Chair	0
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Michael Truitt		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Michael Cripps	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Surgery	Dallas, TX United States	Co-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
Advocacy and Health Policy	Ross Goldberg	Maricopa Integrated Health System Chief of Surgery	Phoenix, AZ United States	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
Advocacy and Health Policy	KMarie Reid	Morehouse School of Medicine Surgery	Atlanta, GA United States	Co-Chair		0
Advocacy and Health Policy	John Roth	Univ of KY Dept of Gen Surgery	Lexington, KY United States	Co-Chair		0
Advocacy and Health Policy	Brian Dunkin	The Methodist Hospital Prof. of Clinical Surgery/Head, Section of Endosco	Houston, TX United States	Mentor
Alternative Funding Solutions Task Force	Suvranu De	Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst Mech Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering	Troy, NY United States	Chair	0
Alternative Funding Solutions Task Force	Ganesh Sankaranarayanan	BaylorScott & White, Dallas Assistant Director, Center for Evidence Based Simu	Arlington, TX 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	Paresh Shah	NYU Langone Medicine Center Vice Chair of Surgery, Director Div of Gen Surgery	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Awards	L. Michael Brunt	Washington Univ School of Med Dept of Surgery	St Louis, MO United States	Chair	0
Bylaws	Racquel Bueno		Honolulu, HI United States	Chair	0
Bylaws	Henry Lin	Eastern Maine Medical Center Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgeon	Bangor, ME United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal Task Force	Patricia Sylla	Mount Sinai - Division of Colorectal Surgery Dept of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Colorectal Task Force	Tonia Young-Fadok	Mayo Clinic AZ Professor of Surgery	Phoenix, AZ United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal Task Force	Michael McGee		Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Archana Ramaswamy		Minneapolis, MN United States	Chair	0
Communications	Andrew Wright	Univ of Washington Dept of Surgery	Seattle, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Robert Andrews		New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Community Practice Task Force	Caitlin Halbert	Christiana Care Health System Dept of Gen Surgery	Wilmington, DE United States	Chair	0
Community Practice Task Force	Kevin Wasco		Neenah, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Community Practice Task Force	Nicole Fearing	menorah medical center medical director of bariatric surgery	Fairway, KS United States	Co-Chair		0
Conflict of Interest	Phillip Shadduck	Duke Regional Hospital Vice Chair, Department of Surgery	Durham, NC United States	Chair	0
Conflict of Interest	Peter Denk		Bonita Springs, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	John Paige	LSUHSC Dept of Surgery	New Orleans, LA United States	Chair	0
Continuing Education	Elisabeth McLemore	Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Chief, Colorectal Surgery	Los Angeles, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	Yong Choi	CHI-St. Luke\'s The Woodlands Hospital General Surgery	The Woodlands, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Development	Gretchen Jackson		Nashville, TN United States	Chair	0
Development	Garth Jacobsen		Rancho Santa Fe, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	E. Matthew Ritter	Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Vice Chairman, Education USU / Walter Reed Depart	Bethesda, MD United States	Chair	-1
Education Council	Michael Awad	Washington Univ Sch of Med Dept of Surgery - MIS	St. Louis, MO United States	Co-Chair		-1
Education Council	James Korndorffer	Stanford University Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery	Palo Alto, CA United States	Co-Chair		-1
Education Council	Denise Gee	MA General Hsp Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		-1
Education Council	Jacob Greenberg		Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		-1
Education Council	Carmen Mueller	St. Mary\'s Hospital and McGill University Health General Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Co-Chair		-1
Educational Resources	Dean Mikami	University of Hawaii Dept of Surgery Division Chief, General Surgery, Associate Profess	Honolulu, HI United States	Chair	0
Educational Resources	Christopher Schlachta	Univeristy Hospital Professor, Departments of Surgery and Oncology	London, ON Canada	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Michael Ujiki	NorthShore Univ Health System Dept of Surgery	Evanston, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Ethics	Arthur Rawlings		Columbia, MO United States	Chair	0
Ethics	Limaris Barrios	Winchester Hospital, A member of Lahey Health Assistant Clinical Professor in Surgery Tufts Univ	Winchester, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Facebook Task Force	Brian Jacob	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York Assoc Clin Prof of Surg	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Finance	Liane Feldman	Montreal General Hospital Professor of Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Chair	0
Finance	David Tichansky		Philadelphia, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Flexible Endoscopy	Eric Pauli	Penn State Hershey Medical Center Associate Professor of Surgery	Hershey, PA United States	Chair	0
Flexible Endoscopy	Bryan Sandler	UCSD Dept of Surgery	La Jolla, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Flexible Endoscopy	James Ellsmere	Dalhousie University General Surgery	Halifax, NS Canada	Co-Chair		0
Foregut Task Force	Leena Khaitan	University Hospitals of Cleveland Associate Professor of Surgery	Chardon, OH United States	Chair	0
Foregut Task Force	Emanuele Lo Menzo	Cleveland Clinic Florida General Surgery	Weston, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut Task Force	Jonathan Critchlow	Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy	Thomas Robinson		Englewood, 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	Jose Martinez	Univ. of Miami, Miller School of Medicine Chief, Section of Surgical Endoscopy	Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Erika Fellinger		Everett, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Andrew Kastenmeier		Milwaukee, WI 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	Allan Okrainec	University of Toronto - University Health Network Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship	Toronto, ON Canada	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery	Neal Seymour	Baystate Med Ctr Chief Div of General Surgery	Springfield, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Jeffrey Hazey	Memorial Health Dept of Surgery	Marysville, OH United States	Chair	0
Global Affairs	Marian McDonald	St Luke`s Allentown Chief, General Surgery, St Luke's Hospital, A	Allentown, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Brant Oelschlager	University of Washington MD and Professor, Dept. of Surgery	Seattle, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Raymond Price		Murray, UT United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Dimitrios Stefanidis	IUH North/ IUPUI Chief of MIS/Bariatric Surgery/ Vice chair of Educ	Indianapolis, IN United States	Chair	0
Guidelines	Stephen Haggerty	NorthShore Univeristy HealthSystem Vice-Chairman of Surgery, Highland Park Hospital	Highland Park, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Geoffrey Kohn		Melbourne, VIC Australia	Co-Chair		0
Hernia Task Force	Sharon Bachman	Inova Fairfax Hospital/Dept of Surgery Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery	Falls Church, VA United States	Chair	0
Hernia Task Force	Jeffrey Blatnik	Barnes - Jewish Hospital Department of Surgery - Section of Minimally Invas	St. Louis, MO United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia Task Force	Philip Omotosho	Rush University Medical Center Associate Professor of Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ Task Force	Horacio Asbun	Mayo Clinic Florida Professor of Surgery, Chairman General Surgery, Di	Jacksonville, FL United States	Chair	0
HPB/Solid Organ Task Force	Adnan Alseidi		Seattle, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ Task Force	Dhiresh Jeyarajah	Methodist Richardson Cancer Center Medical Education	Richardson, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ Task Force	L. Michael Brunt	Washington Univ School of Med Dept of Surgery	St Louis, MO United States	Mentor
i3 Summit Task Force	Daniel Herron	Mount Sinai School of Med Professor	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
i3 Summit Task Force	Dan Azagury	Stanford University School of Medicine Assistant Professor of Surgery	Stanford, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
i3 Summit Task Force	Silvana Perretta	Univ of Strasbourg IRCAD		Co-Chair		0
i3 Summit Task Force	Erik Wilson		Houston, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Kenric Murayama	UH-Manoa/JABSOM Surgery	Honolulu, HI United States	Chair	0
Membership	Maria Altieri		Rocky Point, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Daniel Hashimoto	Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Marina Kurian		New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Bipan Chand		Maywood , IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Matthew Kroh	Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Digestive Disease Institute	Cleveland, Ohio United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Philip Schauer	Cleveland Clinic Fndn Chief MIS Ctr	Cleveland, OH United States	Mentor
Military Working Group	Gordon Wisbach	Dept of Surg Naval Med Ctr	San Diego, CA United States	Chair	0
Military Working Group	Vivian Sanchez	BU Asst Prof of Surgery	W Roxbury , MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Military Working Group	Christopher Yheulon	Emory University Hospital GI and General Surgery	Atlanta, GA United States	Co-Chair		0
Nominating	Daniel Jones	Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr Professor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School	Boston, MA United States	Chair	0
Oncology Task Force	John Marks		Wynnewood, PA United States	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- Children\'s 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	Robert Fanelli	The Guthrie Clinic, PC Chief, Minimally Invasive Surgery; Chief, Surgical	Sayre, PA United States	Chair	0
Program	Melissa Lapinska	University Surgeons Associates Associate Professor	Knoxville, TN 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	Carilion Clinic Trauma/General/Bariatric Surgery	Roanoke, VA United States	Co-Chair		0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	John Romanelli	Baystate Med Ctr Medical Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surg Pr	Springfield, MA United States	Chair	0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Thomas Aloia	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Dept of Surgical Oncology	Houston, TX 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	Co-Chair		0
Research and Career Development	Rebecca Petersen	University of Washington Medical Center Associate Professor	Seattle, WA United States	Chair	0
Research and Career Development	Christopher DuCoin	Tulane University Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department	New Orleans, LA United States	Co-Chair		0
Research and Career Development	David Urbach	Women`s College Hospital Department of Surgery	Toronto, ON Canada	Mentor
Resident and Fellow Training	Matthew Goldblatt	Med College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Chair	0
Resident and Fellow Training	Michael Awad	Washington Univ Sch of Med Dept of Surgery - MIS	St. Louis, MO United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Denise Gee	MA General Hsp Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Dmitry Oleynikov		Omaha, NE United States	Chair	0
Robotics	Omar Yusef Kudsi		Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Ankit Patel		Decatur, GA United States	Co-Chair		0
Safe Chole Task Force	L. Michael Brunt	Washington Univ School of Med Dept of Surgery	St Louis, MO United States	Chair	0
Technology and Value Assessment	Shawn Tsuda	MIVIP Surgery Center, Las Vegas Surgeon	Las Vegas, NV United States	Chair	0
Technology and Value Assessment	David Renton	The Ohio State Univ Associate Prof Dept of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology and Value Assessment	Sharona Ross		Tampa, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
We R SAGES Task Force	Dana Telem	University of Michigan Associate Professor of Surgery	Ann Arbor, MI United States	Chair	0
We R SAGES Task Force	Michael Edwards	Temple University Hospital Dept of Surgery	Philadelphia,, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
We R SAGES Task Force	Alia Qureshi	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School - Harvard Medical Faculty P	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0

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