Officers
Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS
President
Vice-chair, clinical research, department of surgery; Miner Family Chair in Intrathoracic Cancers; attending surgeon, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and professor of surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Tyler G. Hughes, MD, FACS
Secretary
Clinical professor of surgery and director of medical education, Kansas University School of Medicine, Salina, KS
J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS, MCCM
President-Elect
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
Board of Regents
Beth H. Sutton, MD, FACS
Chair
Private practice, Wichita Falls, TX
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
James K. Elsey, MD, FACS
Private practice; visiting professor of surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS
Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and chairman, department of surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College; and surgeon-in-chief, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Lena M. Napolitano, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM
Massey Foundation Professor of Surgery; founding division chief, acute care surgery; and director, surgical critical care, department of surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
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
Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD(Hon), FACS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (ED), FRCSI (Hon), Hon FRCS (Glasg)
Director, digestive disease center, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL
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
Young Fellows Association
Paula Ferrada, MD, FACS
Chair
Director, surgical critical care fellowship program; professor of surgery, department of surgery, division of acute care surgical services; and medical director, surgical and trauma intensive care unit, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
Nicolas J. Mouawad, MD, FACS, MPH, MBA, RPVI
Chief, vascular and endovascular surgery, and vice-chair, department of surgery, McLaren Bay Region, Bay City, MI
Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons
Naveen Sangji, MD, MPH
Chair
Assistant professor, general surgery, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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, FACS
Director, Division of Member Services