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Governance & Committees

Board of Directors: +

Aurora D. Pryor, MD President, Board Chairman
L. Michael Brunt, MD President-Elect
Adnan Alseidi, MD 1st Vice President
Shanu Kothari, MD 2nd Vice President
Brent D. Matthews, MD Secretary/Treasurer and ABS GSB Representative
Samer Mattar, MD Immediate Past President
D. Rohan Jeyarajah, MD Past President
Daniel J. Scott, MD Past President
Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD Accreditation Committee Chair
Andrew S. Wright, MD Accreditation Committee Co-Chair
Brendan Visser, MD AHPBA Representative
Jacob A. Greenberg, MD AHS Representative
Eric Haas, MD ASCRS Representative
Matthew Hutter, MD ASMBS Representative
Jose M. Martinez, MD SAGES Representative
Vic Velanovich, MD SSAT Representative
Jon Wee, MD Thoracic Ad Hoc
Omar Awais, DO Member-At-Large
Sarah Hennessy, MD Member-At-Large
Anne Lidor, MD Member-At-Large
Edward Lin, DO Member-At-Large
David Maron, MD Member-At-Large
Corrigan “Cori” McBride, MD Member-At-Large
Eric Pauli, MD Member-At-Large
Timothy Farrell, MD Bylaws Chair
Liane Feldman, MD Education and Curriculum Chair
Michael Schweitzer, MD Research and Quality Improvement Chair
Shanu Kothari, MD Web/Case Log System Committee Chairs

Executive Committee: +

Aurora Pryor, MD President
L. Michael Brunt, MD President-Elect
Samer Mattar, MD Immediate Past President
Adnan Alseidi, MD 1st Vice President
Shanu Kothari, MD 2nd Vice President
Brent D. Matthews, MD Secretary/Treasurer
Anne Lidor, MD Member-At-Large

Accreditation Committee: +

Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD Chair
Andrew S. Wright, MD Co-Chair
Omar Awais, MD Thoracic Ad-Hoc
Erin Hanna Baker, MD AHPBA Representative
Michelle Cowman, MD AHPBA Representative
Adrian Dan, MD ASMBS Representative
Enrique Fernando Elli, MD SAGES Representative
Denise Gee, MD SSAT Representative
Matthew Hartwig, MD Thoracic Ad-Hoc
Sara Hennessy, MD SAGES Representative
Kunoor Jain-Spangler, MD ASMBS Representative
Shanu Kothari, MD 2nd Vice President
Anne Lidor, MD SAGES Representative
Corrigan “Cori” McBride, MD ASMBS Representative
Carmen Mueller, MD SSAT Representative
Matthew Mutch, MD ASCRS Representative
Eric Pauli, MD Flex Endo Ad-Hoc
Ali Tavakkoli, MD SSAT Representative
Brandon Williams, MD SAGES Representative
Brendan Visser, MD AHPBA Representative
Nicholas Zyromski, MD AHPBA Representative

Bylaws Committee: +

Timothy Farrell, MD Chair
Adrian Dan, MD
Scott Helton, MD
Farah Hussain, MD

Edward Lin, DO

Communications Committee: +

Adnan Alseidi, MD Chair
Eugene Ceppa, MD
Sean Cleary, MD
Jose Martinez, MD
John Martinie, MD
Sharona Ross, MD
Betty Tong, MD
Kunoor Jain-Spangler, MD

Andrew S. Wright, MD

Education and Curriculum Committee: +

Liane Feldman, MD Chair
Mohamed Ali, MD ASMBS Representative
Chad Ball, MD AHPBA Representative
Amir Bastawrous, MD ASCRS Representative
Eugene Cho, MD
Denise Gee, MD
Keith Gersin, MD
Daniel Jones, MD
Rana Higgins, MD
AHS Representative
Michael Pucci, MD SSAT Representative
Kevin Reavis, MD
Ann Rogers, MD SAGES Representative
R. Matthew Walsh, MD
Jon Wee, MD

Finance Committee: +

Brent D. Matthews, MD Chair
Adnan Alseidi, MD 1st Vice President
Karen Gibbs, MD
Jon Gould, MD
Karl A. LeBlanc, MD
Rebecca Minter, MD

Raul Rosenthal, MD
Andrew S. Wright, MD Accreditation Representative
Tonia Young-Fadok, MD

Membership Committee: +

L. Michael Brunt, MD Chair
Cheguevara Afaneh, MD
Amir Bastawrous, MD
Sara Hennessy, MD
Matthew Hutter, MD Board Society Representative
Brendan Visser, MD
Brandon Williams, MD
Andrew S. Wright, MD

Nicholas Zyromski MD

Nominating Committee: +

Samer Mattar, MD Chair & Past President
Adnan Alseidi, MD 1st Vice President
Rohan Jeyarajah, MD Past Presient
Shanu Kothari, MD 2nd Vice President
Rebecca Minter, MD Past President
Michael Nussbaum, MD
Aurora Pryor, MD
President
Steven Wexner, MD

Research and Quality Improvement Committee: +

Michael Schweitzer, MD Chair
Guilhereme Campos, MD
Edward Cho, MD
Christy Dunst, MD
Jayleen Grams, MD
Andrew Kastenmeier, MD
Jose Martinez, MD
Dmitry Nepomnayshy, MD
Kyle Perry, MD

Dino Spaniolas, MD

Web and Case Log System Committee: +

Shanu Kothari, MD Chair
Eugene Cho, MD Co-Chair
Adnan Alseidi, MD
Jacob Greenberg, MD
Jeffrey Marks, MD

Jose Martinez, MD
Eric Pauli, MD
Michael Schweitzer, MD
Brendan Visser, MD

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