Officers
J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS, MCCM
President
Richard T. Myers Professor and Chairman, department of surgery; chair of surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine; and medical director, The Children's Institute for Pediatric Trauma, Winston-Salem, NC
Tyler G. Hughes, MD, FACS
Secretary
Clinical professor of surgery and director of medical education, Kansas University School of Medicine, Salina, KS
Board of Regents
L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS
Vice-Chair
Paul B. Magnuson Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery; chair, department of orthopaedics; and professor of surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; plastic and reconstructive surgery, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA
Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD(Hon), FACS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (ED), FRCSI (Hon), Hon FRCS (Glasg)
Vice-Chair
Director, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL
Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS
Professor of surgery and vice-chair, department of surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Steven C. Stain, MD, FACS
Henry & Sally Schaffer Chair & Professor, department of surgery, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
Beth H. Sutton, MD, FACS
Private practice, Wichita Falls, TX
Board of Governors
Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD, FACS
Chair
Professor, chair of surgery, and associate vice-president, University of Iowa Health Alliance; and professor of surgical oncology and endocrine surgery, biochemistry, anatomy and cell biology, and molecular physiology and biophysics; University of Iowa, Iowa City
Advisory Council for General Surgery
John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA
Chair
Presidential Scholar and professor of surgery, University of Illinois (UIC) College of Medicine, Chicago; physician executive, oncology services; and associate director for clinical research, UIC Cancer Center, Chicago
Members at Large
James K. Elsey, MD, FACS
Private practice; visiting professor of surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Frederick L. Greene, MD, FACS
Surgical oncologist, Charlotte, NC
Lenworth M. Jacobs, Jr., MD, MPH, FACS
Professor of surgery and chairman, department of traumatology and emergency medicine, University of Connecticut; and director, trauma program, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
Marshall Z. Schwartz, MD, FACS
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Young Fellows Association
Joshua Mammen, MD, FACS
Chair
Professor of Surgery and Molecular & Integrative Physiology; Vice Chair of Surgery; Associate Program Director, General Surgery Residency; Division Chief, Oncologic Surgery Division, University of Kansas Medical Center
Resident and Associate Society
Raphael Sun, MD
Chair
Surgical resident PGY7, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
ACS Staff
David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS
Executive Director
Patrick V. Bailey, MD, FACS
Medical Director, Division of Advocacy and Health Policy
Lewis M. Flint, MD, FACS
Editor-in-Chief, Selected Readings in General Surgery, ACS Division of Education
Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, FACS
Director, Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care
Frank R. Opelka, MD, FACS
Medical Director, Division of Advocacy and Health Policy
Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS
Director, Division of Member Services