SAGES Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs

For a full list of all current SAGES committee members, please visit the Committee Rosters page

Committee	Member Name	Institution/Title	Location	Position	Chair	CoChair
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Michael Cripps	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Surgery	Dallas, TX United States	Chair	0
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Sara Hennessy		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
Acute Care Surgery Task Force	Michael Truitt		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Advocacy and Health Policy	Ross Goldberg	Valleywise Health Medical Center Vice-Chairman, Dept of Surgery; Specialty Ambulato	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	John Roth	Univ of KY Dept of Gen Surgery	Lexington, KY 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	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Department of Surgery	Cleveland, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Paresh Shah	NYU Langone Medicine Center Surgeon in Chief	New York, NY 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	Racquel Bueno		Honolulu, HI United States	Chair	0
Bylaws	Henry Lin	Erie County Medical Center/ University of Buffalo Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery	Buffalo, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal	Patricia Sylla	Mount Sinai - Division of Colorectal Surgery Dept of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Colorectal	Elisabeth McLemore	Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Chief, Colorectal Surgery	Los Angeles, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal	Marylise Boutros		Kirkland, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal	Daniel Popowich	St. Francis Hospital Chief, Colorectal Surgery	East Hills, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Kellie McFarlin		Detroit, MI United States	Chair	0
Communications	Andrew Wright	Univ of Washington Dept of Surgery	Seattle, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Erin Gilbert	Oregon Health and Science Univ Assistant Professor Department of General Surgery	Portland, OR United States	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Archana Ramaswamy		Minneapolis, MN United States	Mentor
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	Mercedeh Baghai	Torrance Memorial Hospital Attending Surgeon	Torrance, CA 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
Conflict of Interest	Caroline Reinke		Charlotte, NC United States	Chair	0
Conflict of Interest	Peter Denk		Bonita Springs, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Conflict of Interest	Prashant Sinha		New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Conflict of Interest	Phillip Shadduck	Duke Regional Hospital Vice Chair, Department of Surgery	Durham, NC United States	Mentor
Continuing Education	Yong Choi	BSLMG - CHI St. Luke\'s The Woodlands General Surgery	The Woodlands, TX United States	Chair	0
Continuing Education	Meredith Duke	Vanderbilt University Medical Center Assistant Professor	Nashville, TN United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	Alan Harzman	The Ohio State University Associate Professor of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	John Paige	LSUHSC Dept of Surgery	New Orleans, LA United States	Mentor
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	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School - Harvard Medical Faculty P	Boston, MA United States	Chair	0
Diversity, Leadership and Professional Development Task Force	Jason Keune	St. Louis University School of Medicine Dept of Surgery	St Louis, MO United States	Co-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	Carlos Gomez-Garibello	McGill University Medicine	Montreal, QC Canada	Co-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 - 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 - 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 - Educational Business and Technology Group	Jacob Greenberg	Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Leon Henri Charbonnier Endowed Chair of Surgical E	Augusta, GA United States	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Michael Ujiki	NorthShore Univ Health System Dept of Surgery	Evanston, IL United States	Chair	0
Educational Resources	Philip Omotosho	Rush University Medical Center Associate Professor of Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Eleanor Fung	University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biome Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery	Buffalo, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Ethics	Limaris Barrios		Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Ethics	Arthur Rawlings		Columbia, MO United States	Mentor
Finance	Christopher Schlachta	Univeristy 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	Eric Pauli	Penn State Hershey Medical Center David L Nahrwold Professor of Surgery	Hershey, PA United States	Chair	0
Flexible Endoscopy	Bryan Sandler	University of California, San Diego Department of Surgery	La Jolla, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Flexible Endoscopy	James Ellsmere	Dalhousie University General Surgery	Halifax, NS Canada	Co-Chair		0
Flexible Endoscopy	Sabrena Noria	The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center Associate Professor of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut	Leena Khaitan	University Hospitals of Cleveland Associate Professor of Surgery	Chardon, OH United States	Chair	0
Foregut	Ruchir Puri	University of Florida Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Surgery	Jacksonville, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut	Jon Gould	Medical College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut	Marina Kurian		New York, NY 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	Jose Martinez	Univ. of Miami, Miller School of Medicine Chief, Section of Surgical Endoscopy	Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Diya Alaedeen		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 Endoscopic Surgery	Erika Fellinger		Everett, MA 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	Paul Severson		Crosby, MN United States	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Maria Bailez	Garrahan Children\'s Hospital Department of Surgery		Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Jeffrey Hazey	Memorial Health Dept of Surgery	Marysville, OH United States	Mentor
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	Danielle Walsh	Vidant Medical Center Owner and Medical Director, Pirate Surgery	Greenville, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Geoffrey Kohn		Melbourne, VIC Australia	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Stephen Haggerty	NorthShore Univeristy HealthSystem Vice-Chairman of Surgery, Highland Park Hospital	Highland Park, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Dimitrios Stefanidis	IUH North/ IUPUI Chief of MIS/Bariatric Surgery/ Vice chair of Educ	Indianapolis, IN United States	Mentor
Guidelines	Aurora Pryor	Stony Brook University Professor of Surgery	Stony Brook, NY United States	Mentor
Hernia	Matthew Goldblatt	Med College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Chair	0
Hernia	Ajita Prabhu		Cleveland, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia	Jeffrey Blatnik	Barnes - Jewish Hospital Department of Surgery - Section of Minimally Invas	Twin and Country, MO 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	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
HPB/Solid Organ	Kevin El-Hayek	MetroHealth System Staff	Cleveland, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Maria Altieri	East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine Assistant Professor	Greenville, NC 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 Assistant 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	Oregon Health & Sciences University Bariatric Surgery	Portland, OR 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	Eric Ahnfeldt		El Paso, TX United States	Chair	0
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	Vivian Strong	Mem Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr Dept of Surgery/Gastric Mixed Tumor Serv	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Oncology Task Force	Thomas Aloia	Ascension Health VP, Director of Oncology Services	Pearland, TX 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	Bethany Slater	University of Chicago Medicine Pediatric Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Pediatrics	Diana Diesen	UT Southwestern- Childrens Health Dallas Department of Surgery; Division of Pediatric Surge	Dallas, TX 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
Program	Robert Fanelli	The Guthrie Clinic Vice Chair for Strategy and Innovation; Chief, Min	Sayre, PA United States	Mentor
Publications	S. Scott Davis Jr	Emory University Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery	Atlanta, GA United States	Chair	0
Publications	Nova Szoka	West Virginia University Assistant Professor	Morgantown, WV United States	Co-Chair		0
Publications	Kinga Powers	Stony Brook University Hospital Division of Bariatric, Foregut and Advanced Gastro	Stony Brook, NY 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	University of California at Davis Clinical Assistant Professor, Colorectal Surgery	Sacramento, CA 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 Director of Minimally Invasive General Surgery, As	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 Floirda Division of Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Sur	Tampa, Fl United States	Chair	0
Research and Career Development	Anjali Kumar	Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine \| Washington St Director, Clinical Education - Surgery	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
Research and Career Development	Rebecca Petersen	University of Washington Medical Center Associate Professor	Seattle, WA United States	Mentor
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	Denise Gee	MA General Hsp Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Jacob Greenberg	Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Leon Henri Charbonnier Endowed Chair of Surgical E	Augusta, GA United States	Co-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
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
Robotics	Dmitry Oleynikov	Monmouth Medical Center Chairman, Department of Surgery	Long Branch, NJ United States	Mentor
Safe Chole Task Force	Dana Telem	University of Michigan Associate Professor of Surgery	Ann Arbor, MI United States	Chair	0
Safe Chole Task Force	Eduardo Moreno-Paquentin	Av. Carlos Graef Fernandez 154 Dept of Gen Surgery		Co-Chair		0
Safe Chole Task Force	Federico Serrot	Emory University Surgery	Atlanta, 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	Mentor
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	Sharona Ross		Tampa, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology and Value Assessment	David Pechman		Bay Shore, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology Council	Christopher Schlachta	Univeristy Hospital Professor, Departments of Surgery and Oncology	London, ON Canada	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	Daniel Herron	Mount Sinai School of Med Professor	New York, NY 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 - Digital Surgery Group	Nova Szoka	West Virginia University Assistant Professor	Morgantown, WV United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology Council - Fluorescence Imaging Group	Raul Rosenthal	Cleveland Clinic Florida Head Sec of MIS and Bariatric Surgery	Weston, FL United States	Chair	0
Technology Council - Fluorescence Imaging Group	Robert Lim	Oklahoma University Physicians Tulsa Department of Surgery	Tulsa, OK United States	Co-Chair		0

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