Abstract Review and Program Committee

The Abstract Review and Program Committee serves to enrich the surgical simulation community by assisting AEI staff and leadership with planning and implementing educational content for the ACS Surgical Simulation Summit, which takes place annually in March.

Activities

The Committee plans and implements educational offerings which include panel presentations, committee workshops, and other sessions or topics of special interest to the surgical simulation community. It reviews and selects abstracts for paper and poster presentations at the meeting. It oversees the evaluation of the educational content and the identification of needs for the next annual meeting.

Committee Roster

Program Chair

Tamara L. Owens, PhD, M.Ed, CHSE

Vice-Chair

Luis Llerena, MD, FACS

Members

Kareem R. AbdulFattah, MD

Yazan N. AlJamal, MB, BS

Jonathan M. Dort, MD, FACS

Kristoffel Dumon, MD, FACS

James V. Harmon, MD, PhD, FACS

James N. Lau, MD, MHPE, FACS

Humza Saleem, MD

Kris Siriratsivawong, MD, FACS

Stephen F. Small, MD

Sarah A. Jung, PhD

Glen H. Tinkoff, MD, FACS

Boris A. Zevin, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Contact

If you have any questions or comments, contact the Committee Staff Liaison, Cathy Sormalis, at csormalis@facs.org or Kathy Johnson, at kjohnson@facs.org.