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 |
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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 |