SAGES Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs

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Committee	Member Name	Institution/Title	Location	Position	Chair	CoChair
Acute Care Surgery	Michael Cripps	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Surgery	Aurora, Co United States	Chair	0
Acute Care Surgery	Andre Campbell	UCSF, School of Medicine UCSF, Dept of Surgery	San Francisco, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Acute Care Surgery	Sara Hennessy		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Acute Care Surgery	Michael Truitt		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Advocacy and Health Policy	Scott Roth	Univ of KY Dept of Gen Surgery	Lexington, KY United States	Chair	0
Advocacy and Health Policy	Kevin Wasco		Neenah, WI 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
Advocacy and Health Policy	Ross Goldberg	Jackson Memorial Hospital Medical Director, Perioperative Services	Miami, FL United States	Mentor
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Ozanan Meireles	Massachusetts General Hospital Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Chair	0
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Paresh Shah	NY Presbyterian Health System for the Weill Cornel COO	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Daniel Hashimoto	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Surgery	Philadelphia, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Filippo Filicori		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
Colorectal	Elisabeth McLemore	Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Chief, Colorectal Surgery	Los Angeles, CA United States	Chair	0
Colorectal	Marylise Boutros		Parkland, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal	Mark Whiteford	Oregon Clinic Div of Gastrointestinal and MIS	Portland, OR 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
Community Practice	Robert Catania	Southern New Hampshire Weight Management Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Nashua, NH 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	Caitlin Halbert	Christiana Care Health System Dept of Gen Surgery	Wilmington, DE United States	Mentor
Conflict of Interest	Caroline Reinke		Charlotte, NC United States	Chair	0
Conflict of Interest	Prashant Sinha		Staten Island, 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 Professor of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	Nabil Tariq		Houston, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Development	Anne Lidor	Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Chief, Div of MIS	Madison, WI United States	Chair	0
Development	Kyle Perry	The Ohio State Univ Asst Prof of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Development	Sharona Ross		Tampa, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Diversity, Leadership, and Professional Development	Alia Qureshi	Oregon Health and Sciences University Associate Professor of Surgery	Lake Oswego, OR United States	Chair	0
Diversity, Leadership, and Professional Development	Hope Jackson		Caton, MI United States	Co-Chair		0
Diversity, Leadership, and Professional Development	Courtney Collins	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Assistant Professor of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Diversity, Leadership, and Professional Development	Jenny Shao	University of Michigan-- University Hospital General Surgery	Ann Arbor, MI 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 Professor of Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Ethics	Limaris Barrios		Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Finance	Robert Lim	Oklahoma University Physicians Tulsa Department of Surgery	Tulsa, OK United States	Chair	0
Finance	David Tichansky		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	Amber Shada	University of Wisconsin Associate Professor	Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Flexible Endoscopy	Ryan Juza		Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut	Jon Gould	Medical College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Chair	0
Foregut	Anna Ibele	University of Utah Health Care Assistant Professor, Minimally Invasive and Bariat	Salt Lake City, UT United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut	Ruchir Puri	University of Florida Associate Professor, Dept. of Surgery	Jacksonville, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy	Jaisa Olasky	Lenox Hill Hospital Dept of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy	Ivy Haskins	University of Nebraska Medical Center Assistant Professor of Surgery	Omaha, NE 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	Neal Seymour	Baystate Health Chief Div of General Surgery	Springfield, MA United States	Chair	0
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery	Dmitry Nepomnayshy		Burlington, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery	Melissa Hanson	McGill University General Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery	Melina Vassiliou	McGill Univ Dept of Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Mentor
Global Affairs	Linda Zhang	Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Global Affairs	Marian McDonald	St Luke`s University Health Network, Allentown Chief, Surgery, St Luke\'s Hospital, Allent	Allentown, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Nia Zalamea		Memphis, TN United States	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Rohan Joseph	Capital Regional Medical Center Clinical Assistant Professor, Florida State Univer	Tallahassee, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Maria Bailez	Garrahan Children\'s Hospital Department of Surgery		Co-Chair		0
Governance	John Mellinger		Westlake, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Governance	Brent Matthews	Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center; Wake Fores Professor and Chair of Surgery	Charlotte, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Bethany Slater	University of Chicago Medicine Pediatric Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	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
Guidelines	Geoffrey Kohn		Melbourne, VIC Australia	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Francesco Palazzo	Thomas Jefferson University Dept of Surgery	Philadelphia, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Tammy Kindel		Mikwaukee, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia	Matthew Goldblatt	Med College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Chair	0
Hernia	Benjamin Poulose	Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Robert M. Zollinger Lecron-Baxter Chair and Chief,	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia	Vedra Augenstein		Charlotte, NC 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	Kevin El-Hayek	MetroHealth System Staff	Cleveland, OH United States	Chair	0
HPB/Solid Organ	Melissa Hogg		Evanston, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ	Mihir Shah	Emory Surgery	Atlanta, GA United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ	Hop Tran Cao	The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center Dept of Surgery	Houston, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Maria Altieri	University of Pennsylvani Assistant Professor	Glen Mills, PA United States	Chair	0
Membership	Nabeel Obeid	Michigan Medicine Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery	Chelsea, MI United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Yewande ALIMI	Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Dept of Surgery	BETHESDA, MD 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	Omar Ghanem	Mayo Clinic Department of Surgery	Rochester, MN 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	0
Military	Andrew Eppstein	Richard L. Roudebush VAMC Asst Prof of Clinical Surgery	Indianapolis, IN United States	Co-Chair		0
Military	Tamara Worlton		Silver Spring, MD United States	Co-Chair		0
Nominating	John Mellinger		Westlake, OH United States	Chair	0
Oncology	Mercedeh Baghai	Torrance Memorial Hospital Attending Surgeon	Torrance, CA United States	Chair	0
Oncology	Samuel Ross	Carolinas Medical Center Assistant Professor of Surgery	Waxhaw, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Oncology	Alice Wei	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Dept of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Oncology	Laila Rashidi	Multicare Healthcare System Dept of Colorectal Surgery	Tacoma, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Pediatrics	Alessandra Gasior	The Ohio State University Medical Center Colon and Rectal Surgery	Columbus, OH 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	Romeo Ignacio	Rady Children\'s Hospital San Diego Division of Pediatric Surgery	San Diego, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Pediatrics	Stefan Scholz	Children`s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC General and Thoracic Pediatric Surgery	Pittsburgh, PA United States	Mentor
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	Siva Vithiananthan	Cambridge Health Alliance Chief of Surgery	Cambridge, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Publications	Kinga Powers	Stony Brook University Hospital Division of Bariatric, Foregut and Advanced Gastro	Stony Brook, NY United States	Chair	0
Publications	Nova Szoka	West Virginia University Assistant Professor	Morgantown, WV United States	Co-Chair		0
Publications	Jayleen Grams	Univ of AL at Birmingham Div of GI Surgery	Birmingham, AL United States	Co-Chair		0
Publications	S. Scott Davis Jr	Emory University Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery	Atlanta, GA United States	Mentor
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Deborah Keller	Marks Colorectal Surgical Associates, Lankenau Med Clinical Associate Professor	Sacramento, PA United States	Chair	0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Henry Lin	Signature Healthcare/ Brockton Hospital Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery	Brockton, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Diana Diesen	UT Southwestern- Childrens Health Dallas Department of Surgery; Division of Pediatric Surge	Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Shaina Eckhouse	Barnes Jewish Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery	Saint Louis, MO United States	Co-Chair		0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Jonathan Dort	Inova Fairfax Hospital Director of Surgical Education and Director, Surge	Falls Church, VA United States	Mentor
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	James Bittner		Bloomfield, CT United States	Co-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
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	Konstantinos Spaniolas	Stony Brook School of Medicine Dept of Surgery	Stony Brook, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Research and Career Development	Anjali Kumar		Spokane, WA 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
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	Jacob Greenberg	Duke University Hospital Associate Professor	Durham, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Rana Higgins	Medical College of Wisconsin Associate Professor	Milwaukee, WI United States	Co-Chair
Robotics	Dimitrios Stefanidis	IUH North/ IUPUI Chief of MIS/Bariatric Surgery/ Vice chair of Educ	Indianapolis, IN United States	Chair	0
Robotics	Ankit Sarin	University of California - Davis Associate Professor of Surgery	Redwood City, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Abubaker Ali	Detroit Medical Center Chair, Physician Leadership Council, TPR	Detroit, MI United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Sarah Samreen		League City, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Ankit Patel	Emory Saint Joseph\'s Hospital Chief of Surgery, Emory Saint Joseph\'s Hospital	Decatur, GA United States	Co-Chair		0
Safe Chole Task Force	Federico Serrot	Cleveland Clinic Martin Health North Surgery	Palm Beach Gardens, FL United States	Chair	0
Safe Chole Task Force	Shanley Deal		Federal Way, WA United States	Co-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	Dana Telem	University of Michigan Associate Professor of Surgery	Ann Arbor, MI 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	Liane Feldman	McGill University Health Centre Professor of Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0
Surgical Data Science Task Force	Aurora Pryor	Northwell Health Surgery Service Line/ System Director of Bariatri	Queens, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Sustainability in Surgical Practice Task Force	Shaneeta Johnson		Atlanta, GA United States	Chair	0
Sustainability in Surgical Practice Task Force	Adnan Alseidi	University of California, San Francisco Vice Chair of Education	San Francisco, CA 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 and Value Assessment	Sharona Ross		Tampa, FL 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 - Fluorescence Imaging Group	Robert Lim	Oklahoma University Physicians Tulsa Department of Surgery	Tulsa, OK United States	Chair	0
Technology Council - Fluorescence Imaging Group	Christy Chai	Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center Surgical Oncology	Houston, TX United States	Co-Chair		0

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