Board of Governors Best Practices Workgroup

The Best Practices Workgroup creates and disseminates guidelines developed from well-accepted, peer-reviewed best practices on topics relevant to the surgical community and the patients we serve.

Questions regarding the Workgroup can be directed to Emily Kalata, Manager, Board of Governors, at ekalata@facs.org or 312.202.5360.

Chair

Annabel Elizabeth Barber, MD FACS

Vice Chair

Yvonne Baerga-Varela, MD FACS

Pillar Lead

Sundeep Govind Keswani, MD FACS

Young Fellow Representative

Alexandra Gangi, MD FACS

RAS Representative

Michelle McCullers, MD

Member

Adam Augustus Klipfel, MD FACS

Member

Munier M.S. Nazzal, MBChB FACS

Member

Lillian S. Kao, MD FACS

Member

Marina S. Kurian, MD FACS

Member

Daniel Ojuka, MBBS FACS

Member

Brandon Thomas Grover, DO FACS

Member

Karin Hardiman, MD PhD FACS

Member

Dante M. Conley, MD FACS

Member

Rebecca Caperton Britt, MD FACS

Member

Michael Campbell, MD FACS

Member

Peter Richard Nelson, MD MS FACS

Member

Eric C. Feliberti, MD FACS

Member

Pedro Antonio Ferraina, MD FACS

Member

Michael Kevin Barry, MBBCh FACS

Advisory Council Member

Adam Wayne Beck, MD FACS

Advisory Council Member

Charles Alexander Leath III, MD FACS

Member

Pedro Ferreira Moniz Pereira, MD FACS

Member

Luis Grande, MD FACS

Member

Sean Daniel Patrick McFadden, MD FACS

Member

Charles Randolph St. Hill, MD FACS

Member

Jeannine A. Villella, DO FACS

Member

Rudy Paul Lackner, MD, FACS

Member

Eric Michael Campion, MD FACS

Member

Mark Adams Talamini, MD MBA FACS

Member

Preston Miller III, MD FACS

Member

James Ellsmere, MD FACS

Member

Raul Coimbra, MD PhD FACS

Member

James Thomas McCormick, DO FACS

Member

Joseph Alfred Blansfield, MD FACS

Consultant

Christine Laronga, MD FACS

Consultant

Laurie Jill Kirstein, MD, FACS

Staff Liaison

Emily Kalata

Staff Liaison

Mark Peterson

Staff Liaison

Jackson Folstein

Staff Liaison

Clifford Y. Ko, MD FACS

Staff Liaison

Sameera Ali, MPH

Staff Liaison

Laura Rocha, Assoc, Executive

Staff Liaison

Rachel Reardon