Renowned surgical oncologist Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS, was elected President-Elect of the ACS during the Annual Business Meeting of Members at Clinical Congress 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Joining him as First and Second Vice-Presidents-Elect, respectively, are Sharon M. Henry, MD, FACS, and Robert P. Sticca, MD, FACS.
A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Eberlein serves as the founding director of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, as well as the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor, and senior associate dean for cancer programs at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
After earning his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, he completed an internship and residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (known for part of that time as Peter Bent Brigham Hospital) in Boston, Massachusetts, including a year as chief resident. He also completed two research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Eberlein has been active within the ACS for more than 30 years. His roles have included serving as a member of the Board of Governors, Chair of the Board of Regents, and the Chair of the Committee on Research and Education. In addition, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons from 2004 to 2025. For his numerous contributions to the ACS and the surgical profession, he received the Rodney E. and Thomas G. Sheen Award from the New Jersey Chapter of the ACS, as well as the Owen H. Wangensteen Scientific Forum Award (2020).
He also has held leadership positions at the American Board of Surgery, Advisory Committee to the Board for Surgical Oncology, Board of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Society of Surgical Oncology, Society of Surgical Chairs, American Surgical Association, and the National Cancer Institute. A prolific researcher and editorial board member, he served as associate editor of the Annals of Surgical Oncology for 17 years.
Dr. Eberlein called becoming President-Elect of the ACS “the epitome of my academic career in surgery,” and stated his wish to “work tirelessly to help the College and its Fellows.”
Vice-Presidents-Elect
Dr. Henry, the Anne Scalea Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, is the First Vice-President-Elect.
In addition to being a renowned trauma surgeon, Dr. Henry has been active within the ACS for many years. This includes more than 2 decades of involvement with the Committee on Trauma (COT) in a range of roles. Similarly, she is a long-serving Advanced Trauma Life Support® (ATLS®) course director, for which she received the ACS COT Meritorious Service Award in 2009. She helped promulgate ATLS to Slovenia, Iraq, Haiti, and Bangladesh, and she served on the steering committee for its newly launched 11th edition.
Dr. Sticca is the Second Vice-President-Elect. He is an emeritus professor of surgery at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine in Grand Forks.
Formally trained in general surgery and surgical oncology, Dr. Sticca has focused his career on serving rural populations. He was a founding leader of the only surgical residency program in North Dakota, which helps meet a need for surgical care in the Great Plains and serves as a model for rural care nationally. As a result, one surgeon who nominated Dr. Sticca for the Second Vice-Presidency called him “an icon of rural surgery.”
A past member of the ACS Board of Governors and Advisory Council for Rural Surgery, Dr. Sticca also contributed to the Commission on Cancer and ATLS program.
