SAGES Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs

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
Acute Care Surgery	Michael Cripps	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Surgery	Aurora, Co United States	Chair	0
Acute Care Surgery	Michael Truitt		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Acute Care Surgery	Sara Hennessy		Dallas, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Acute Care Surgery	Andre Campbell	UCSF, School of Medicine UCSF, Dept of Surgery	San Francisco, CA 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	David Tichansky		Marina Del Rey, CA 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
Artificial Intelligence Task Force	Ozanan Meireles	Duke University Hospital North Dept of Surgery	Durham, NC United States	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	Paresh Shah	NY Presbyterian Health System - Weill Cornell Medi Group SVP and Chief Operating Officer	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Colorectal	Elisabeth McLemore	Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Chief, Colorectal Surgery	Los Angeles, CA United States	Chair	0
Colorectal	Laila Rashidi	Multicare Healthcare System Dept of Colorectal Surgery	Tacoma, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal	Mark Whiteford	Oregon Clinic Div of Gastrointestinal and MIS	Portland, OR United States	Co-Chair		0
Colorectal	Nawar Alkhamesi	Kadlec Regional Medical Center Professor of Surgery, Washington State University	Richland, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Kellie McFarlin		Detroit, MI United States	Chair	0
Communications	Erin Gilbert	Oregon Health and Science Univ Assistant Professor Department of General Surgery	Portland, OR United States	Co-Chair		0
Communications	Alejandro Rodriguez	Hospital Zambrano Hellion Associate Professor	San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon Mexico	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	Mercedeh Baghai	Torrance Memorial Hospital Attending Surgeon	Torrance, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Community Practice	Fernando Mier Giraud	University of Oklahoma Health and Science center GI and General Surgery	Oklahoma City, OK United States	Co-Chair		0
Conflict of Interest	Caroline Reinke		Charlotte, NC United States	Chair	0
Conflict of Interest	Peter Denk		Bonita Springs, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Conflict of Interest	Prashant Sinha		Staten Island, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	Alan Harzman	The Ohio State University Professor of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Chair	0
Continuing Education	Amber Shada	University of Wisconsin Associate Professor	Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Continuing Education	Nabil Tariq		Houston, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Diversity, Leadership, and Professional Development	Jenny Shao	University of Michigan-- University Hospital General Surgery	Ann Arbor, MI United States	Chair	0
Diversity, Leadership, and Professional Development	Hope Jackson		Caton, MI United States	Co-Chair		0
Diversity, Leadership, and Professional Development	Andrew Schlussel		JACKSONVILLE, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	Michael Awad	Washington Univ Sch of Med Dept of Surgery - MIS	St. Louis, MO United States	Chair	0
Education Council	Richard Garfinkle	McGill University General Surgery	Cote Saint-Luc, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0
Education Council	Christina Sanders	Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo General Hospit Assistant Professor of Surgery, University at Buff	Orchard Park, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Eleanor Fung	University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biome Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery	Williamsville, NY United States	Chair	0
Educational Resources	Edward Borrazzo	Univ of VT College of Med Fletcher Allen Health Care	Burlington, VT United States	Co-Chair		0
Educational Resources	Philip Omotosho	Rush University Medical Center Professor of Surgery	Chicago, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Ergonomics Task Force	Andrew Wright	Univ of Washington Dept of Surgery	Seattle, WA United States	Chair	0
Ergonomics Task Force	Mary Kate Bryant		Charleston, SC United States	Co-Chair		0
Ethics	Limaris Barrios		Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Finance	Robert Lim	Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center and Wake Fo Vice Chair of Education, Professor of Surgery	Charlotte, NC United States	Chair	0
Flexible Endoscopy	James Ellsmere	Dalhousie University General Surgery	Halifax, NS Canada	Chair	0
Flexible Endoscopy	Ryan Juza		Madison, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Foregut	Ruchir Puri	University of Florida Associate Professor, Dept. of Surgery	Jacksonville, FL 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	Alia Qureshi	Oregon Health and Sciences University Associate Professor of Surgery	Lake Oswego, OR 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
Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy	Dean Mikami	University of Hawaii Department of Surgery Professor of Surgery, Interim Chair of Surgery, As	Honolulu, HI 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	Heidi Miller		Portland, ME United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Ryan Horsley		Waverly, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery	Melanie Howell	Holy Name Medical Center Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery	Teaneck, NJ 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
Global Affairs	Linda Zhang	Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Global Affairs	Ana Carrasquilla	Hospital CIMA San Jose General Surgery	Escazu, San Jose Costa Rica	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	Archana Ramaswamy	VA Loma Linda Heathcare System Chief of Surgery	Claremont, CA United States	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	Francesco Palazzo	Thomas Jefferson University Dept of Surgery	Philadelphia, PA United States	Co-Chair		0
Guidelines	Geoffrey Kohn		Melbourne, VIC Australia	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	Rebecca Petersen	University of Washington Medical Center Associate Professor	Seattle, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia	Courtney Collins	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Assistant Professor of Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Hernia	Anne Ehlers		Ann Arbor, MI United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ	Kevin El-Hayek	MetroHealth System Staff	Cleveland, OH United States	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
HPB/Solid Organ	Mihir Shah	Emory Surgery	Atlanta, GA United States	Co-Chair		0
HPB/Solid Organ	Melissa Hogg		Evanston, IL United States	Co-Chair		0
Lead-up Task Force	Ross Goldberg	Jackson Memorial Hospital Medical Director, Perioperative Services	Miami, FL United States	Chair	0
Lead-up Task Force	Paresh Shah	NY Presbyterian Health System - Weill Cornell Medi Group SVP and Chief Operating Officer	New York, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Lead-up Task Force	Leena Khaitan	University Hospitals of Cleveland Professor of Surgery	Chardon, OH United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Maria Altieri	University of Pennsylvani Assistant Professor	Glen Mills, PA United States	Chair	0
Membership	Yewande ALIMI	Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Dept of Surgery	BETHESDA, MD United States	Co-Chair		0
Membership	Nabeel Obeid	University of Michigan Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery	Ann Arbor, MI United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Farah Husain	Banner University of Arizona PHX Bariatric Surgery	Scottsdale, AZ United States	Chair	0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Thadeus Trus	Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr Dept of Surgery	Lebanon, NH United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Judy Chen	University of Washington Assistant Professor of Surgery	Seattle, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery	Omar Ghanem	Mayo Clinic Department of Surgery	Rochester, MN United States	Co-Chair		0
Military	Mary Teresa ODonnell	Walter Reed National Military Medical Center General Surgery	Bethesda, MD 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	Patricia Sylla	Mount Sinai - Division of Colorectal Surgery Dept of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Patient Engagement Task Force	Patricia Sylla	Mount Sinai - Division of Colorectal Surgery Dept of Surgery	New York, NY United States	Chair	0
Patient Engagement Task Force	Caitlin Halbert	Christiana Care Health System Dept of Gen Surgery	Wilmington, DE United States	Chair	0
Pediatrics	Alessandra Gasior	The Ohio State University Medical Center Colon and Rectal Surgery	Columbus, OH United States	Chair	0
Pediatrics	Romeo Ignacio	Rady Children\'s Hospital San Diego Division of Pediatric Surgery	San Diego, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Program	Anne Lidor	Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Chief, Div of MIS	Madison, WI United States	Chair	0
Program	Michael Ujiki	NorthShore Univ Health System Dept of Surgery	Evanston, IL United States	Chair	0
Program	Siva Vithiananthan	Cambridge Health Alliance Chief of Surgery	Cambridge, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Program	Melissa Phillips	University Surgeons Associates Professor	Knoxville, TN United States	Co-Chair		0
Publications	Kinga Powers		Saint James, NY United States	Chair	0
Publications	Jayleen Grams	Univ of AL at Birmingham Div of GI Surgery	Birmingham, AL United States	Co-Chair		0
Quality, Outcomes, Safety	Deborah Keller	Marks Colorectal Surgical Associates, Lankenau Med Clinical Associate Professor	Cherry Hill, NJ 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	Shaina Eckhouse	Duke Raleigh Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery	Raleigh, NC United States	Co-Chair		0
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	John Romanelli	Baystate Med Ctr Medical Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surg Pr	Springfield, MA United States	Co-Chair		0
Re-Imagining the Practice of Surgery Task Force	James Bittner	Sentara Obici Hospital Director, Robotic Surgery	Suffolk, VA 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 GI & General Surgery, Department o	Tampa, Fl United States	Chair	0
Research and Career Development	Marylise Boutros		Parkland, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Research and Career Development	Konstantinos Spaniolas	Stony Brook School of Medicine Dept of Surgery	Stony Brook, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Jacob Greenberg	Duke Regional Hospital Health Services Center Associate Professor	Durham, NC United States	Chair	0
Resident and Fellow Training	Brian Davis		El Paso, TX United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Rana Higgins	Medical College of Wisconsin Associate Professor	Milwaukee, WI United States	Co-Chair		0
Resident and Fellow Training	Salvatore Docimo, Jr	University of South Florida Associate Professor of Surgery	Tampa, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
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 Chief, Division of Colorectal Surgery	Sacramento, CA 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
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
Safe Chole Task Force	Byron Santos		Lyme, NH United States	Chair	0
Safe Chole Task Force	Shiva Jayaraman	University of Toronto Surgery	Toronto, ON Canada	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	Shanley Deal	Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Associate Program Director	Federal Way, WA United States	Co-Chair		0
Space Surgery Task Force	Gordon Wisbach	Dept of Surg Naval Med Ctr	San Diego, CA United States	Chair	0
Space Surgery Task Force	Amanda Mueller	Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Department of Surgery	Dover, NH United States	Co-Chair		0
Surgical Data Science Task Force	Amin Madani	University Health Network - Toronto General Hospit Surgery	Toronto, ON Canada	Chair	0
Surgical Data Science Task Force	Aurora Pryor	Lifespan Professor and Chair of Surgery, Brown University	Providence, RI United States	Co-Chair		0
Sustainability in Surgical Practice Task Force	Shaneeta Johnson	Morehouse School of Medicine Professor of Surgery, Chief, MIS & Bariatric S	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	Sharona Ross		Tampa, FL United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology and Value Assessment	David Pechman		Bay Shore, NY United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology Council	Jon Gould	Medical College of Wisconsin Dept of Surgery	Milwaukee, WI United States	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	Carla Pugh	Stanford University, School of Medicine Division of General Surgery in the Department of S	Stanford, CA United States	Co-Chair		0
Technology Council	Nova Szoka	West Virginia University Assistant Professor	Morgantown, WV United States	Co-Chair		0
VBA Task Force	E. Matthew Ritter	IU Health / School of Medicine Professor of Surgery	Indianapolis, IN United States	Chair	0
VBA Task Force	Liane Feldman	McGill University Health Centre Professor of Surgery	Montreal, QC Canada	Co-Chair		0