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Society of University Surgeons (SUS)

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Committees

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee +

Thomas Varghese, MD – Chair (2020-2023)
University of Utah

Amanda Arrington, MD (2020-2022)
University of Arizona Health Sciences

Rachael Callcut, MD (2020-2023)
University of California San Francisco

Shaun Kunisaki, MD (2020-2023)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Christiana Shaw, MD (2020-2023)
University of Florida

Carmen Solorzano, MD (2020-2022)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

David Stone, MD (2020-2022)
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Sanda Tan, MD (2020-2023)
University of Florida

Ethics and COI Committee +

Melinda Maggard-Gibbons, MD – Chair (2018-2021)
UCLA

George Chang, MD (2019-2021)
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Zara Cooper, MD(2019-2021)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Elliott R. Haut, MD, PhD (2019-2021)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Elmi Muller, MD (2019-2021)
University of Cape Town

Heena Santry, MD (2019-2021)
Ohio State University

Dana Telem, MD (2020-2022)
University of Michigan

Global Academic Surgery Committee +

Sanjay Krishnaswami, MD- Chair (2019-2022)
Oregon Health & Science University

Anthony Charles, MD, MPH (2019-2021)
University of North Carolina

Peter Ekeh, MD, MS (2019-2022)
Wright State University

Samuel Finlayson, MD, MPH (2019-2021)
University of Utah

Kakra Hughes, MD (2019-2022)
Howard University

Randeep Jawa, MD (2019-2021)
Stony Brook University

Ziad Sifri, MD (2019-2021)
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Susan Orloff, MD – Senior Member 
Oregon Health & Science University

George P. Yang, MD, PhD – Senior Member
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Membership Committee +

Cynthia Downard, MD, MMSc – Chair (2019-2022)
University of Louisville

Sandra Wong, MD, MS – President (2020-2021)
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD – Past President (2018-2021)
University of Arizona

Allan Tsung, MD – Past President (2019-2022)
Ohio State University

Gregory Kennedy, MD, PhD – Past President (2020-2023)
University of Alabama Birmingham

Cristina Ferrone, MD – Secretary (2018-2021)
Massachusetts General Hospital

David Stewart, MD – Councilor-at-Large (2020-2023)
University of Pennsylvania

Genevieve Boland, MD (2019-2021)
Massachusetts General Hospital

Ernest Ramsay Camp, MD, MS (2019-2021)
Medical University of South Carolina

Quyen Dihn Chu, MD (2019-2021)
LSU Health Sciences Center

Jayleeen Grams, MD (2020-2022)
University of Alabama Birmingham

Fabian Johnston, MD (2019-2021)
Johns Hopkins University

Amanda Kong, MD, MS (2019-2021)
Medical College of Wisconsin

Geeta Lal, MD, MS (2019-2021)
University of Iowa Hospitals

Colin Martin, MD (2019-2021)
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Faisal Qureshi, MD (2019-2021)
University of Texas Southwestern

Bryan Richmond, MD (2019-2021)
West Virginia University

Anneke Schroen, MD (2019-2021)
University of Virginia

Liana Tsitkitis, MD (2020-2022)
Oregon Health & Science University

Nominating Committee +

Kasper Wang, MD – Chair and President-Elect (2020-2021)
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Sandra Wong, MD, MS- President (2020-2021)
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Taylor S. Riall, MD, PhD – Past President (2018-2021)
University of Arizona

Allan Tsung, MD – Past President (2019-2022)
Ohio State University

Gregory Kennedy, MD, PhD – Past President (2020-2023)
University of Alabama Birmingham

Cynthia Downard, MD, MMSc – Councilor at Large for Membership(2019-2020)
University of Louisville

2020 Superannuating Members of the Society and 2 Members at Large

Publications Committee +

Melanie Morris, MD – Chair (2020-2022)
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sandra Wong, MD, MS – President (2020-2021)
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Doreen Agnese, MD (2019-2021)
Ohio State University

Vanita Ahuja, MD, MPH (2017-2020)
Yale University

Mary Austin, MD, PhD (2019-2021)
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Nicole Chandler, MD (2020-2022)
Johns Hopkins University

Afshin Ehsan, MD (2020-2022)
Yale School of Medicine

Daniel Eiferman, MD (2020-2022)
The Ohio State University

Katherine Gallagher, MD (2019-2021)
University of Michigan

Jason Gold, MD (2020-2022)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Mike Goodman, MD (2020-2022)
UC Health

Elizabeth Grubbs (2020-2022)
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Kamran Idrees, MD, MSCI, MMHC (2019-2021)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Garth Jacobsen, MD (2020-2022)
University of California San Diego

Bellal Joseph, MD (2017-2020)
University of Arizona

Kathie-Ann Joseph, MD (2020-2022)
NYU Langone Health

Irene Kim, MD (2020-2022)
Cedars-Sinai Hospital

Catherine Lee, MD (2020-2022)
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Marc Melcher, MD, PhD (2020-2022)
Stanford University

Peter Nelson, MD (2019-2021)
University of Oklahoma

Motaz Qadan, MD (2020-2022)
Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert Russell, MD (2020-2022)
Children’s of Alabama

David Stewart, MD (2019-2021)
University of Arizona

Susan Tsai, MD (2020-2022)
Medical College of Wisconsin

Grayson Wheatley, MD (2018-2020)
Centennial Heart & Vascular Institute

Russell Woo, MD (2019-2021)
University of Hawaii

Research Committee +

Allan Goldstein, MD- Co-Chair (2019-2021)
Massachusetts General Hospital

Arden Morris, MD, MPH- Co-Chair (2019-2022)
Stanford University

Darren Carpizo, MD (2019-2022)
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Catherine Hunter, MD (2019-2022)
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Sundeep Keswani, MD (2019-2021)
Texas Children’s Hospital

James Lau, MD (2020-2021)
Stanford University

Eric Liao, MD (2019-2022)
Massachusetts General Hospital

Melinda Maggard Gibbons, MD, MSHS (2019-2021)
University of California, Los Angeles

Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, MS (2019-2022)
University of Minnesota

Benedict Nwomeh, MD, MPH (2019-2021)
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Thomas Varghese, MD (2019-2021)
University of Utah

Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH (2019-2022)
Stanford University

Brian Zuckerbraun, MD (2019-2022)
University of Pittsburgh

Scholarship Committee +

Rebekah White, MD – Chair (2018-2021)
University of California, San Diego

Kasper Wang, MD – President-Elect (2020-2021)
Dartmouth University

Taylor Riall, MD, PhD – Past President (2018-2021)
University of Arizona

Allan Tsung, MD – Past President (2019-2022)
Ohio State University

Gregory Kennedy, MD, PhD – Past President (2020-2023)
Ohio State University

Cynthia Downard, MD, MMSC – Councilor-at-Large (2019-2022)
University of Louisville

Adam Berger, MD – ACS SRC Representative (2019-2022)
Rutgers Cancer Center

Sarah Blair, MD (2020-2021)
University of California, San Diego

Kazuaki Takabe, MD
Roswell Park

Social & Legislative Issues Committee +

Tracy Wang, MD, MPH – Chair (2020-2023)
Medical College of Wisconsin

Dev M. Desai, MD, PhD – ABS Representative (2016-2022)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Benedict Nwomeh, MD, MPH – ACS Board of Governors Representative (2019-2022)
University of Louisville

Peter Angelos, MD – ACS Board of Governors Representative (2017-2020)
University of Chicago

Clara Lee, MD – AAMC-CFAS Representative (2019-2022)
Ohio State University

Marie Crandall, MD (2020-2022)
University of Florida Jacksonville

Daithi Heffernan, MD (2020-2022)
Brown University

Anne Lidor, MD, MPH (2020-2022)
University of Wisconsin

Francesco Palazzo, MD (2020-2022)
Thomas Jefferson University

Bryan Richmond, MD (2020-2022)
West Virginia University

Heather Yeo, MD, MHS (2019-2021)
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Surgical Education Committee +

Ravi Radhakrishnan, MD – Chair (2020-2022)
Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin

Kasper Wang, MD – President-Elect (2020-2021)
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Jennifer Tseng, MD – ABS Representative (2019-2025)
Boston Medical Center

Benedict Nwomeh, MD – ACS Board of Governors Representative (2019-2022)
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Peter Angelos, MD – ACS Board of Governors Representative (2017-2020)
University of Chicago

Sunil Geevarghese, MD – AAMC-CFAS Representative (2017-2023)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Rebecca Britt, MD (2018-2020)
Eastern Virginia Medical School

James Lau, MD (2020-2022)
Stanford University School of Medicine

Kevin Pei, MD (2020-2022)
Houston Methodist

Valentine Nfonsam, MD (2020-2022)
University of Arizona

Tina Yen, MD  (2020-2022)
Medical College of Wisconsin