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General surgery

Beth H. Sutton, MD, FACS

President | Wichita Falls, TX

Private practice

General surgery

Nancy L. Gantt, MD, FACS

First Vice-President | Youngstown, OH

Co-Medical Director, Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center, and professor of surgery, Northeastern Ohio University

Otolaryngology–head and neck surgery

Dennis H. Kraus, MD, FACS

Second Vice-President | Centennial, CO

Enterprise Executive Medical Director, Oncology, Centura Health

Vascular surgery

Anton N. Sidawy, MD, FACS

President-Elect | Washington, DC

Professor & Lewis B. Saltz Chair, department of surgery, George Washington University

General surgery

Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS

First Vice-President-Elect | Burlington, MA

Chief academic officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health—Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

Pediatric surgery

Edward M. Barksdale Jr., MD, FACS

Second Vice-President-Elect | Chicago, IL

Chief surgical officer, Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance; professor of surgery at The University of Chicago

Pediatric Surgery

Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS

Immediate Past-President | Miami, FL

Dean and chief academic officer, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida

General Surgery

Sherry M. Wren, MD, FACS

Secretary | Palo Alto, CA

Professor of surgery and vice chair, department of surgery professional development, Stanford University

Pediatric surgery

Don K. Nakayama, MD, MBA, FACS

Treasurer | Columbus, GA

Senior associate dean, Mercer University School of Medicine’s Columbus Campus; medical director, pediatric surgery, Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital

Current Board of Regents

General surgery

Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, FACS

Chair, Board of Regents | New York, NY

Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and chairman, department of surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College; and surgeon-in-chief, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

General surgery

Lena M. Napolitano, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM

Vice-Chair, Board of Regents | Ann Arbor, MI

Massey Foundation Professor of Surgery; founding division chief, acute care surgery; director, surgical critical care, department of surgery, University of Michigan Health System

Urology

Anthony Atala, MD, FACS

Winston-Salem, NC

Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, W. Boyce Professor and Chair, department of urology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Gynecologic (Oncology) surgery

Carol L. Brown, MD, FACS

New York, NY

Professor, obstetrics & gynecology, Weill Cornell Medical College; associate cancer center director, diversity and health equity; senior vice-president and chief health equity officer, Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; attending surgeon; & vice-chair, health equity, department of surgery, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases

Otolaryngology–head and neck surgery

Francoise P. Chagnon, MD, FACS, FRCSC

Montréal, QC

Associate professor, department of medicine, Université de Montréal; associate professor, department of otolaryngology, McGill University

General surgery

Annesley (AJ) W. Copeland, MD, FACS

Bethesda, MD

Associate professor of surgery and surgery core clerkship director, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; attending surgeon, Walter Reed Army Medical Center/Walter Reed Military Medical Center

General surgery

Daniel L. Dent, MD, FACS

San Antonio, TX

Professor of surgery, chair of the department of medical education, associate director for workforce development of the Mays Cancer Center, UT Health San Antonio

Vascular surgery

Audra A. Duncan, MD, FACS

London, ON, Canada

Professor of surgery and chair/chief of Vascular Surgery at Western University

Pediatric surgery

Diana L. Farmer, MD, FACS, FRCS

Sacramento, CA

Pearl Stamps Stewart Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor and Chair, department of surgery, UC Davis School of Medicine; surgeon-in-chief, UC Davis Children's Hospital, and chief of surgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children

General Surgery

Liane S. Feldman MD CM FACS FRCS

Montreal, QB

Edward W. Archibald Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, McGill University; Surgeon-in-chief, McGill University Health Centre

Colorectal surgery

James W. Fleshman Jr., MD, FACS, FASCRS

Dallas, TX

Chief of surgery; Sparkman Endowed Professor and Chairman, department of surgery; professor, department of surgery, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Baylor University Medical Center

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Arun K. Gosain, MD, FACS

Chicago, IL

Division head, plastic surgery; Children's Service Board Chair in Pediatric Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery; professor of surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Pediatric surgery

Andrea A. Hayes Dixon, MD, FACS, FAAP

Washington, DC

Dean, Howard University College of Medicine and Howard University Hospital

Otolaryngology–head and neck surgery

Sanjay R. Parikh, MD, FACS

Seattle, WA

Professor and associate chief of surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital

Ophthalmology

Sarwat Salim, MD, FACS

Boston, MA

Professor of ophthalmology; vice chair, clinical and academic affairs; and director, glaucoma service, New England Eye Center and Tufts University

General surgery

Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS

Nashville, TN

Professor of surgery and vice-chair, department of surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

General surgery

Steven C. Stain, MD, FACS

Burlington, MA

Chair, department of surgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

General surgery

Gary L. Timmerman, MD, FACS

Sioux Falls, SD

Attending surgeon, Sanford Surgical Associates; and professor and chair, department of surgery, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota