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Governance & Committees

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Board of Directors

Anne O. Lidor, MD President, Board Chairman
Brent D. Matthews, MD President-Elect and ABS GSB Representative
Edward Lin, DO  1st Vice President 
Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD 2nd Vice President  
Jose Martinez, MD Secretary/Treasurer
Shanu N. Kothari, MD Immediate Past President
Adnan A. Alseidi, MD Past President
L. Michael Brunt, MD Past President
Corrigan “Cori” McBride, MD Accreditation Committee Chair
Erin Baker, MD Accreditation Committee Co-Chair
Samer Mattar, MD ACS Representative
Christy M. Dunst, MD AFS Representative and Education/Curriculum Chair
Kathleen Christians, MD AHPBA Representative
To be announced AHS Representative
Matthew Hutter, MD ASMBS Representative
James Bittner IV, MD SAGES Representative
Robert Lim, MD SSAT Representative
Jon O. Wee, MD Thoracic Ad Hoc
Eugene Cho, MD Member-At-Large
To be announced Member-At-Large
Jayleen Grams, MD Member-At-Large
Rana Higgins, MD Member-At-Large
Mark Soliman, MD Member-At-Large
Ali Tavakkoli, MD Member-At-Large
Brendan C. Visser, MD Member-At-Large
Timothy M. Farrell, MD Bylaws Chair
Sara Hennessy, MD Bylaws Co-Chair
Alisan Fathalizadeh, MD Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Chair
Christy Dunst, MD Education & Curriculum Chair
Omar Awais, DO Education & Curriculum Co-Chair
Shanu N. Kothari, MD Nominating Chair
Michael A. Schweitzer, MD Research and Quality Improvement Chair
Kyle Perry, MD Research and Quality Improvement Co-Chair
Don J. Selzer, MD Web/Case Log System Committee Chair
Alisan Fathalizadeh, MD Web/Case Log System Committee Co-Chair
Andrew Wright, MD Ad-Hoc Accreditation Advisor
Britney Corey, MD APDs Liaison

Executive Committee

Anne O. Lidor, MD President
Brent D. Matthews, MD President-Elect
Shanu N. Kothari, MD Immediate Past President
Edward Lin, DO 1st Vice President
Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD  2nd Vice President
Jose Martinez, MD Secretary/Treasurer 
Brendan Visser, MD Member-At-Large

Accreditation Committee

Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD 2nd Vice President
Corrigan “Cori” McBride, MD Chair
Erin Hanna Baker, MD Co-Chair
Eugene Cho, MD SSAT Representative
Michelle Cowan, MD Ad-Hoc
Adrian G. Dan, MD ASMBS Representative
Eric DeMaria, MD ASMBS Representative
Sal Docimo, MD AHS Representative
Enrique Fernando Elli, MD SAGES Representative
Eleanor Fung, MD SAGES Representative
Ellen Hagopian, MD SSAT Representative
Kelly Haisely, MD AFS Representative
Sara Hennessy, MD SAGES Representative
Rana Higgins, MD ASMBS Representative
James Kurtz, DO SSAT Representative
Kristen Newhams, MD AFS Representative
Nabeel Obeid, MD SAGES Representative
Louise Pernar, MD SAGES Representative
Dina Podolsky, MD AHS Representative
Sarah Samreen, MD ASMBS Representative
Raashid Sheikh, MD AHPBA Representative
Chaya Shwaartz, MD AHPBA Representative
Desiree Steimer, MD Ad-Hoc Thoracic Representative
Brendan C. Visser, MD AHPBA Representative
D. Brandon Williams, MD SAGES Representative
Kristen Wong, MD Ad-Hoc Flex Endo Representative

Bylaws Committee

Timothy M. Farrell, MD Chair
Sara Hennessy, MD Co-Chair
Nicole M. Fearing, MD
Farah Hussain, MD

Edward Lin, DO

Communications Committee

Edward Lin, DO  Chair
Margaux Mustian, MD
Abdelrahman Nimeri, MD
John R. Romanelli, MD
Christopher M. Schlachta, MD
Betty C. Tong, MD

Melina Vassiliou, MD
Andrew S. Wright, MD

Education & Curriculum Committee

Christy M. Dunst, MD Chair
Omar Awais, DO Co-Chair
Rachel Atkinson, MD
Michael Awad, MD SAGES Representative
Mohamed Ali, MD ASMBS Representative
Sherif Aly, MD
Chad Ball, MD AHPBA Representative
Givi Basishvili, MD
Nikolai A. Bildzukewicz, MD AFS Representative
Maggie Bosley, MD
Douglas Cassidy, MD
Colin Delong, MD
Salvatore Docimo, MD
Christopher DuCoin, MD
Rana Higgins, MD
AHS Representative
Annie Benzie, MD SSAT Representative
Christine Wang, MD

Empowerment and Engagement Committee

Alisan Fathalizadeh, MD Chair
Shushmita M. Ahmed, MD
Domenech Asbun, MD
Kunoor Jain-Spangler, MD

J. Rohan Jeyerajah, MD
Lora Melman, MD

Sharona Ross, MD
Rikesha Wilson, MD

Finance Committee

Jose Martinez, MD Chair
Ed Lin, MD 1st Vice President
Adrian G . Dan, MD
Karen E. Gibbs, MD
Jon C. Gould, MD
Chet Hammill, MD
V. Keith Rhynes, MD

Tonia M. Young-Fadok, MD

Membership Committee

Brent Matthews, MD Chair
Cheguevara Afaneh, MD
Amir L. Bastawrous, MD
Heather A. Ford, MD

Matthew M. Hutter, MD Board Society Representative
Kyle Kleppe, MD
Kirsten Newham, MD
Ching-Wei Tzeng, MD
Brendan C. Visser, MD

D. Brandon Williams, MD
jessica Zaman, MD

Nominating Committee

Shanu Kothari, MD Immediate President & Chair
Adnan Alseidi, MD Past President
Sean Cleary, MD
Alisan Fathalizadeh, MD DEI Chair
Brent Matthews, MD President-Elect
Michael Brunt, MD
Past-President

Research Committee

Michael A. Schweitzer, MD Chair
Kyle Perry, MD Co-Chair
Givi Basishvili, MD
Edward Cho, MD
Christy M. Dunst, MD
Andrew Kastenmeier, MD
Dmitry Nepomnayshy, MD
Kyle A. Perry, MD
Co-Chair
Jenny Shao, MD
Michael B. Ujiki, MD

Web/Case Log System Committee

Don J. Selzer, MD Chair
Alisan Fathalizadeh, MD Co-Chair
Mohamed Ali, MD
Adnan A. Alseidi, MD

Leena Khaitan, MD
Jeffrey Marks, MD

Jose M. Martinez, MD
Vimal K. Narula, MD
Nathania Pletch, MD
Don J. Selzer, MD
Abdullah Shammari, MD
Theresa Wang, MD

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