Committee Rosters

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Committee	Member Name	Institution/Title	Location	Position	Chair	CoChair
Alternative Funding Solutions Task Force	Janey Pratt		Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Awards	John Romanelli	Baystate Med Ctr Medical Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surg Pr	Springfield, MA United States	Chair	0
Research and Career Development	Christopher DuCoin	University of South Floirda Division of Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Sur	Tampa, Fl United States	Co-Chair		0
Development	Anne Lidor	Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Chief, Div of MIS	Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Philip Omotosho	Rush University Medical Center Associate Professor of Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Executive	Jeffrey Marks	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Dept of Gen Surgery	Cleveland, OH United States	Immediate Past President
Executive	Aurora Pryor	Stony Brook University Professor of Surgery	Stony Brook, NY United States	President
Executive	Horacio Asbun	Miami Cancer Institute Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery	Miami, FL United States	President-Elect
Executive	Fredrick Brody	Washington DC VA Medical Center Dept of Surgery	Washington, DC United States	Secretary
Executive	Liane Feldman	Montreal General Hospital Professor of Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Treasurer
Executive	John Mellinger	Southern IL Univ School of Med Dept of Surgery	Springfield, IL United States	1st Vice President
Executive	Christopher Schlachta	Univeristy Hospital Professor, Departments of Surgery and Oncology	London, ON Canada	2nd Vice President
Flexible Endoscopy	Sabrena Noria	The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center Assistant Professor fo Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia Task Force	Brent Matthews	Carolinas Medical Center, University of North Caro Professor of Surgery	Charlotte, NC United States	Chair	0
Hernia Task Force	Ajita Prabhu		Cleveland, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ Task Force	Eugene Ceppa	Indiana University School of Medicine Associate Professor of Surgery	Indianapolis, IN 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
Nominating	Jeffrey Marks	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Dept of Gen Surgery	Cleveland, OH United States	Chair	0
Oncology Task Force	Thomas Aloia	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Dept of Surgical Oncology	Houston, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Publications	Nova Szoka	West Virginia University Assistant Professor	Morgantown, WV United States	Co-Chair		0
Safe Chole Task Force	ALLISON BARRETT	St. Joseph Medical Center Director of Bariatric Surgery	Reading, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology Council	Christopher Schlachta	Univeristy 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 Assistant Professor of Surgery	Stanford, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Board of Governors	John Mellinger	Southern IL Univ School of Med Dept of Surgery	Springfield, IL United States	Member
Board of Governors	Horacio Asbun	Miami Cancer Institute Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery	Miami, FL United States	Member
Board of Governors	Aurora Pryor	Stony Brook University Professor of Surgery	Stony Brook, NY United States	Member
Board of Governors	Kevin Reavis	Oregon Clinic Div of Gastrointestinal and MIS	Portland, OR United States	Member
Board of Governors	Paresh Shah	NYU Langone Medicine Center Vice Chair of Surgery, Director Div of Gen Surgery	New York, NY United States	Member
Board of Governors	Steven Schwaitzberg	University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biome Chairman, Department of Surgery	Buffalo, NY United States	Member
Board of Governors	Lee Swanstrom	The Oregon Clinic Chief, Division of GI and MIS surgery	Portland, OR United States	Member
Board of Governors	Danielle Walsh	East Carolina University Dept of Ped Surgery	Greenville, NC United States	Member
Board of Governors	Melina Vassiliou	McGill Univ Dept of Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Member
Board of Governors	David Urbach	Women`s College Hospital Department of Surgery	Toronto, ON Canada	Member
Board of Governors	Dana Telem	University of Michigan Associate Professor of Surgery	Ann Arbor, MI United States	Member
Board of Governors	Mark Talamini	Stony Brook Medicine Dept of Surgery	Stony Brook, NY United States	Member
Board of Governors	Patricia Sylla	Mount Sinai - Division of Colorectal Surgery Dept of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Member
Board of Governors	Dimitrios Stefanidis	IUH North/ IUPUI Chief of MIS/Bariatric Surgery/ Vice chair of Educ	Indianapolis, IN United States	Member
Board of Governors	Don Selzer	Indiana Univ School of Med Dept of Surgery	Indianapolis, IN United States	Member
Board of Governors	Daniel Scott	UT Southwestern Medical Center Dept of Surgery	Dallas, TX United States	Member
Board of Governors	E. Matthew Ritter	Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Vice Chairman, Education USU / Walter Reed Depart	Bethesda, MD United States	Member
Board of Governors	Archana Ramaswamy		Minneapolis, MN United States	Member
Board of Governors	Carla Pugh	Stanford University, School of Medicine Division of General Surgery in the Department of S	Stanford, CA United States	Member
Board of Governors	Allan Okrainec	University of Toronto - University Health Network Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship	Toronto, ON Canada	Member
Board of Governors	John Marks	Lankenau Medical Center Chief, Colon and Rectal Surgery	Wynnewood, PA United States	Member
Board of Governors	Robert Lim	Tripler Army Med Ctr Dept of Gen Surgery	Honolulu, HI United States	Member
Board of Governors	Anne Lidor	Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Chief, Div of MIS	Madison, WI United States	Member
Board of Governors	Marina Kurian		New York, NY United States	Member
Board of Governors	Leena Khaitan	University Hospitals of Cleveland Associate Professor of Surgery	Chardon, OH United States	Member
Board of Governors	Daniel Jones	Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr Professor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School	Boston, MA United States	Member
Board of Governors	Brian Jacob	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York Assoc Clin Prof of Surg	New York, NY United States	Member
Board of Governors	Jeffrey Hazey	Memorial Health Dept of Surgery	Marysville, OH United States	Member
Board of Governors	Jon Gould	Medical College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Member
Board of Governors	Matthew Goldblatt	Med College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	Member
Board of Governors	Pascal Fuchshuber	Highland Hospital, Oakland Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, UCSF-East	Moraga, CA United States	Member
Board of Governors	Robert Fanelli	The Guthrie Clinic, PC Chief, Minimally Invasive Surgery; Chief, Surgical	Sayre, PA United States	Member
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	Andre Campbell	UCSF, School of Medicine UCSF, Dept of Surgery	San Francisco, CA 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	Michael Truitt		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Advocacy and Health Policy	Ross Goldberg	Maricopa Integrated Health System Vice-Chairman, Dept of Surgery; Specialty Ambulato	Phoenix, AZ United States	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	Ann Rogers	Penn State Hershey Medical Center Prof. of Surgery; Vice Chair for Leadership &	Hershey, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
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
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
Communications	Archana Ramaswamy		Minneapolis, MN United States	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	Yong Choi	CHI-St. Luke\'s The Woodlands Hospital General Surgery	The Woodlands, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Development	Garth Jacobsen	University of California San Diego Professor of Surgery	Rancho Santa Fe, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Development	Kyle Perry	The Ohio State Univ Asst Prof of Surgery	Columbus, OH 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	0
Education Council	Carmen Mueller	St. Mary\'s Hospital and McGill University Health General Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	Jacob Greenberg		Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	Denise Gee	MA General Hsp Dept of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	Michael Awad	Washington Univ Sch of Med Dept of Surgery - MIS	St. Louis, MO United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	James Korndorffer	Stanford University Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery	Palo Alto, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Dean Mikami	University of Hawaii Dept of Surgery Division Chief, General Surgery, Associate Profess	Honolulu, HI United States	Chair	0
Colorectal Task Force	Daniel Popowich		New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal Task Force	Elisabeth McLemore	Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Chief, Colorectal Surgery	Los Angeles, CA 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
Continuing Education	Meredith Duke	Vanderbilt University Medical Center Assistant Professor	Nashville, TN United States	Co-Chair		0
Facebook Task Force	Andrew Wright	Univ of Washington Dept of Surgery	Seattle, WA United States	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
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	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	Raymond Price		Murray, UT United States	Co-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
Guidelines	Dimitrios Stefanidis	IUH North/ IUPUI Chief of MIS/Bariatric Surgery/ Vice chair of Educ	Indianapolis, IN United States	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
Hernia Task Force	Jeffrey Blatnik	Barnes - Jewish Hospital Department of Surgery - Section of Minimally Invas	Twin and Country, MO 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	Adnan Alseidi		Seattle, WA United States	Chair	0
Membership	Kenric Murayama	UH-Manoa/JABSOM Surgery	Honolulu, HI United States	Chair	0
Membership	Maria Altieri		Ballwin, MO United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut Task Force	Marina Kurian		New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ Task Force	Melissa Hogg		Evanston, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Nabeel Obeid	University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Surgery	Chelsea, MI United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Farah Husain	Oregon Health & Sciences University Bariatric Surgery	Portland, OR United States	Co-Chair		0
Military	Eric Ahnfeldt		El Paso, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Konstantinos Spaniolas	Stony Brook School of Medicine Dept of Surgery	Stony Brook, New York United States	Co-Chair		0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Deborah Keller	Columbia University Medical Center Assistant Professor, Colorectal Surgery	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Brian Davis	Texas Tech Health Sciences Ctr El Paso Associate Professor /Dept of Surgery	El Paso, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Matthew Kroh	Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Digestive Disease Institute	Cleveland, Ohio United States	Chair	0
Military	Gordon Wisbach	Dept of Surg Naval Med Ctr	San Diego, CA United States	Chair	0
Military	Vivian Sanchez	Boston Univ School of Medicine Asst Prof of Surgery	W Roxbury, MA United States	Co-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
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	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	Jonathan Dort	Inova Fairfax Hospital Vice Chairman of Education and Director, Surgery R	Falls Church, VA United States	Chair	0
Research and Career Development	Rebecca Petersen	University of Washington Medical Center Associate Professor	Seattle, WA 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	Michael Awad	Washington Univ Sch of Med Dept of Surgery - MIS	St. Louis, MO United States	Chair	0
Robotics	Dmitry Oleynikov		Omaha, NE United States	Chair	0
Robotics	Ankit Patel		Decatur, GA United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Omar Yusef Kudsi		Boston, MA 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	Alia Qureshi	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School - Harvard Medical Faculty P	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Vedra Augenstein		Charlotte, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Robotics	Linda Zhang	Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Conflict of Interest	Caroline Reinke		Charlotte, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Daniel Hashimoto	Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery	Boston, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	Carlos Gomez-Garibello	McGill University Medicine	Montreal, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0
Global Affairs	Diego Camacho	Montefiore Medical Center Director MIS and Bariatric surgery	Bronx, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Danielle Walsh	East Carolina University Dept of Ped Surgery	Greenville, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
Board of Governors	Christopher Schlachta	Univeristy Hospital Professor, Departments of Surgery and Oncology	London, ON Canada	Member
Board of Governors	Liane Feldman	Montreal General Hospital Professor of Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Member
Board of Governors	Fredrick Brody	Washington DC VA Medical Center Dept of Surgery	Washington, DC United States	Member
Board of Governors	Jeffrey Marks	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Dept of Gen Surgery	Cleveland, OH United States	Member
Board of Governors	Ross Goldberg	Maricopa Integrated Health System Vice-Chairman, Dept of Surgery; Specialty Ambulato	Phoenix, AZ United States	Member
Board of Governors	Jose Martinez	Univ. of Miami, Miller School of Medicine Chief, Section of Surgical Endoscopy	Miami, FL United States	Member
Board of Governors	Eric Pauli	Penn State Hershey Medical Center Associate Professor of Surgery	Hershey, PA United States	Member
Board of Governors	Rebecca Petersen	University of Washington Medical Center Associate Professor	Seattle, WA United States	Member
Board of Governors	James Rosser Jr		Davenport, FL United States	Member
We R SAGES Task Force	Jason Keune	St. Louis University School of Medicine Dept of Surgery	St Louis, MO United States	Co-Chair		-1
We R SAGES Task Force	Hope Jackson		Washington, DC United States	Co-Chair		-1
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