ASE Board of Directors
The ASE Board of Directors is comprised of the following voting members: President, President- Elect, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Recorder, Chairs of each of the standing committees, Surgical Education Research Fellowship (SERF) Program Director, and three Immediate Past Presidents. Non-voting members include the Executive Director, ASE Foundation President, ACS Director of Education, Vice Chairs of each of the standing committees, and the appointed liaisons to other organizations.
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Secretary
Tracey Dechert, MD
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Treasurer
Alan Harzman, MD
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Immediate Past President
Michael Awad, MD, PhD, MHPE
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Editor-in-Chief, Global Surgical Education-Journal of the ASE, and Past President
Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD
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Past President
Adnan Alseidi, MD, EdM
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ASE Foundation President
Amalia Cochran, MD
ACS Director of Education
Ajit Sachdeva, MD
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Chair, Assessment, Curriculum, and Evaluation
Emily Huang, MD, MAEd
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Vice Chair, Assessment, Curriculum, and Evaluation
Tasha Posid, MA, PhD
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Chair, Awards
Cate Unruh, MEd
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Vice Chair, Awards
Phoenix (Xiaodong) Chen, PhD, MSc, Beng
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Chair, Citizenship and Global Responsibility
Sabrina Sanchez, MD, MPH
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Vice Chair, Citizenship and Global Responsibility
Olabisi Sheppard, MD
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Chair, Clerkship Directors
Matthew Lin, MD
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Vice Chair, Clerkship Directors
Justin Wagner, MD
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Chair, Communications
Ming-Li Wang, MD
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Vice Chair, Communications
John Falcone, MD, MS
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Chair, Coordinators of Surgical Education
Rolanda Whitford, APACS
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Vice Chair, Coordinators of Surgical Education
Caroline Rhodes, BA, MBA Candidate
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Chair, Development
Dmitry Nepomnayshy, MD
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Vice Chair, Development
Nell Maloney, MD
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Chair, DEI
Amanda Cooper, MD
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Vice Chair, DEI
Sheina Theodore, MD
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Chair, Faculty Development
Kenneth Lipshy, MD
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Vice Chair, Faculty Development
Jacob Peschman, MD
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Chair, Finance
Alan Harzman, MD
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Vice Chair, Finance
Tracey Dechert, MD
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Chair, Graduate Surgical Education
Kimberly Hendershot, MD
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Vice Chair, Graduate Surgical Education
Kshama Jaiswal, MD
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Chair, Membership
Prasad Poola, MD
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Vice Chair, Membership
Sarah Jung, PhD
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Chair, Program
Nabil Issa, MD
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Vice Chair, Program
Brigitte Smith, MD, MHPE
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Chair, Simulation
Joon Shim, MD, MPH
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Vice Chair, Simulation
Matthew Ritter, MD
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Chair, Surgical Education Research
Priti Parikh, PhD
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Vice Chair, Surgical Education Research
Hee Soo Jung, MD
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Chair, VCE
Brigitte Smith, MD, MHPE
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Vice Chair, VCE
Rebecca Hoffman, MD
Liasons
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Director, SERF
Gurjit Sandhu, PhD
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Co-Director, SERF
David Rogers, MD
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Director, SELF
Laura Torbeck, PhD, MS
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Liaison – ACS Board of Governors
Christopher Brandt, MD
Liaison – ACS/APDS/ASE Prep Curriculum
Kristine Calhoun, MD
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Liaison – ACS/ ASE Medical Student Core Curriculum
Ranjan Sudan, MD
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Liaison – Alliance for Clinical Education
Rachel Slotcavage, MD
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Liaison – APDS
Tania Arora, MD
Liaison – WISE-MD
Mary Ann Hopkins, MD
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Resident/Fellow Representative
Madhuri Nagaraj, MD, MS
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Medical Student Representative
Connie Zhou, BS
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CoSEF Representative
Caitlin Silvestri, MD