ASE Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is comprised of the following voting members: President, President- Elect, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Chairs of each of the standing committees (see Article IX, Section 2), Directors of ASE standing educational programs, three members-at-large, and three Immediate Past Presidents. Non-voting members include the Editor-in-Chief of GSE-JASE, Executive Director, ASE Foundation President, ACS Director of Education, Vice Chairs of each of the standing committees, Program Co-Directors, and the appointed liaisons to other organizations.
President
Aimee Gardner, PhD
President-Elect
Marc de Moya, MD
Vice-President
Alan Harzman, MD
Treasurer
Tracey Dechert, MD
Secretary
Roy Phitayakorn, MD, MHPE, MAMSE
Immediate Past President
Mohsen Shabahang, MD, PhD, MHPE
Past President
Michael Awad, MD, PhD, MHPE
Editor-in-Chief, Global Surgical Education-Journal of the ASE, and Past President
Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD
ASE Foundation President
Megan Miller, MD
ACS Director of Education (ex oficio)
Ajit Sachdeva, MD
Chair, Assessment, Curriculum, and Evaluation
Emily Huang, MD, MAEd
Vice Chair, Assessment, Curriculum, and Evaluation
Tasha Posid, MA, PhD
Chair, Awards
Phoenix (Xiaodong) Chen, PhD, MSc, Beng
Vice Chair, Awards
James Korndorffer, Jr., MD, MHPE
Chair, Citizenship and Global Responsibility
Olabisi Sheppard, MD
Vice Chair, Citizenship and Global Responsibility
Christie Buonpane, MD
Chair, Clerkship Directors
Matthew Lin, MD
Vice Chair, Clerkship Directors
Justin Wagner, MD
Chair, Communications
Ming-Li Wang, MD
Vice Chair, Communications
John Falcone, MD, MS
Chair, Coordinators of Surgical Education
Rolanda Whitford, APACSSR
Vice Chair, Coordinators of Surgical Education
Caroline Rhodes, BA, APACS
Chair, Development
Nell Maloney Patel, MD
Vice Chair, Development
Kimberly Hendershot, MD
Chair, DEI
Sheina Theodore, MD
Vice Chair, DEI
Melissa Alvarez-Downing, MD
Chair, Faculty Development
Jacob Peschman, MD
Vice Chair, Faculty Development
Martha Godfrey, MD, MS
Chair, Finance
Tracey Dechert, MD
Vice Chair, Finance
Roy Phitayakorn, MD, MHPE, MAMSE
Chair, Graduate Surgical Education
Kshama Jaiswal, MD
Vice Chair, Graduate Surgical Education
Rebecca Brown, MD
Chair, Membership
Sarah Jung, PhD
Vice Chair, Membership
Kimberly Hendershot, MD
Chair, Program
Brigitte Smith, MD, MHPE
Vice Chair, Program
Megan Miller, MD
Chair, Simulation
E. Matthew Ritter, MD, MHPE
Vice Chair, Simulation
Erika Simmerman-Mabes, DO
Chair, Surgical Education Research
Priti Parikh, PhD
Vice Chair, Surgical Education Research
Hee Soo Jung, MD
Resident Chair, Trainee
Sophia Williams-Perez, MD
Medical Student Chair, Trainee
Alexandria L. Soto
Resident Vice Chair, Trainee
Steven Thornton, MD
Medical Student Vice Chair, Trainee
Mikayla Deckard
Chair, VCE
Rebecca Hoffman, MD
Vice Chair, VCE
Jacquelyn Turner, MD
Liasons
Director, SERF
Gurjit Sandhu, PhD
Co-Director, SERF
David Rogers, MD
Director, SELF
Laura Torbeck, PhD, MS
Liaison – ACS Board of Governors
Christopher Brandt, MD
Liaison – ACS/APDS/ASE Prep Curriculum
Kristine Calhoun, MD
Liaison – ACS/ ASE Medical Student Core Curriculum
Ranjan Sudan, MD
Liaison – Alliance for Clinical Education
Rachel Slotcavage, MD
Liaison – APDS
Tania Arora, MD
WISE-MD
Mary Ann Hopkins, MD
Member-at-Large
Kimberly Hendershot, MD
Member-at-Large
Alan Ladd, MD
Member-at-Large
Joon Shim, MD, MPH
CoSEF Representative
Noosha Deravi, MD