New members of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Board of Regents (B/R) and members of the Board of Governors (B/G) Executive Committee were elected at the Board of Governors Annual Business Meeting on October 17. Governors at-Large and Specialty Society Governors also were elected at the Annual Business Meeting of Members on October 27.

Regents

The B/G has elected six new members of the B/R: Carol L. Brown, MD, FACS, FACOG; James W. Fleshman, Jr., MD, FACS, FASCRS; Andrea A. Hayes, MD, FACS, FAAP; Mark Savarise, MD, MBA, FACS; Shelly D. Timmons, MD, PhD, FACS, FAANS; and Philip R. Wolinksy, MD, FACS, FAAOC, FAOA.

Dr. Brown is an esteemed professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. She is associate cancer center director, diversity and health equity; senior vice-president and chief health equity officer, and the Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. She also is attending surgeon, gynecology service, and vice-chair, health equity, department of surgery, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York City.

She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and her medical degree (MD) from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and her fellowship in gynecologic oncology and her National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

A Fellow of the ACS since 1999, Dr. Brown serves on the Manhattan Credentials Committee.

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Dr. Fleshman is a renowned colon and rectal surgeon. He is chief of surgery; the Sparkman Endowed Professor and Chairman, department of surgery; and professor of surgery, department of surgery, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas.

He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts (BA) degree from Washington University, St. Louis, MO. He earned his MD at Washington University School of Medicine and completed his residency training at The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis (now Barnes-Jewish Hospital), Washington University School of Medicine. He was a Monheimer Research Fellow at The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, and did his colon and rectal surgery fellowship in the department of surgery, University of Toronto, ON.

A Fellow of the College since 1990, Dr. Fleshman has been a member of both the North Texas and Missouri Chapters of the ACS and an ACS Governor. As a Governor, he served in the following capacities: member, Executive Committee (2015−2016); member, Coalition Workgroup (2013−2016); member, Health Policy and Advocacy Workgroup (2013−2016); member, Surgical Volunteerism and Humanitarian Awards Workgroup (2013−2016); Chair, Nominating Committee (2013−2014); and member, Physician Competency and Health Workgroup (2011−2013). He chairs the North Texas Credentials Committee (2014−present) and is Vice-Chair, National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (2019−present). He also has served as Region Chief, Health Policy Advisory Council (2017−2020), and Advisory Council for Colon and Rectal Surgery (2005−2016).

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Dr. Hayes is an esteemed pediatric surgeon and surgical oncologist. She is professor and chair, department of surgery, Howard University College of Medicine and Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC. Dr. Hayes is the first woman chair of surgery at Howard University.

Dr. Hayes pursued her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College and is a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH. She was a general surgery resident at the University of California (UC) Davis-East Bay; a molecular biology fellow at UC San Francisco; a pediatric surgical oncology fellow at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; a melanoma and sarcoma fellow at MD Anderson; and a pediatric surgery fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON.

A Fellow of the College since 2008, Dr. Hayes has served on the Nominating Committee of the Board of Governors (2018−2020) and has been an ACS Governor (2009−2021), serving on the B/G Committee on Socioeconomic Issues (2010−2012), B/G Grassroots Advocacy Engagement Workgroup (2017−2021), and B/G Diversity Pillar (2020−2021). She also served on the Committee on Diversity (2010−2013) and the Young Surgeons Committee (2004−2006). She presented the 2021 Olga M. Jonasson Lecture at Clinical Congress.

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Dr. Savarise is an esteemed general surgeon and clinical associate professor; medical director, outreach and network development; and section chief, community general surgery, department of surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. He also is attending general surgeon, George Wahlen Salt Lake City Veterans Administration Medical Center.

He earned his BA at University of Colorado, Boulder, and his MD from University of Colorado, Denver. He received his master of business of administration (MBA) from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. He served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps as Staff General Surgeon, 81st Medical Group (1996−2000).

A Fellow of the ACS since 1999, Dr. Savarise has served in the following capacities: member, Practice Protection Committee (2020−present); member, Health Policy and Advocacy Group (2018−present); member, Health Policy Advisory Council (2014−present); member, Advisory Council for Rural Surgery (2012−2018), and Chair, Advocacy Pillar (2013−2018); member, Advisory Council for General Surgery (2010−2015); Chair, ACS Committee on Young Surgeons/Young Fellows Association (2005−2011); Secretary, Utah Chapter of the ACS (2013−2015); Utah Chapter Philanthropic Champion, ACS Foundation (2014−2015); and member, ACS Alternative Payment Model Advisory Council (2015−2018).

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Dr. Timmons is a respected neurosurgeon, chair of neurological surgery, and the Betsey Barton Chair, department of neurological surgery, and co-director, Neuroscience Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. She received her MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, and completed her residency in neurological surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis.

A Fellow of the College since 2005, Dr. Timmons was an ACS Governor (2012−2018). As a member of the B/G, she served on the following workgroups: Grassroots Advocacy Engagement Workgroup (2017−2019), Health Policy and Advocacy Workgroup (2016−2018), and Coalition Workgroup (2013−2015). She was Chair of the Coalition Workgroup (2015−2016) and was a member of the Advocacy and Health Policy Pillar (2013−2018).

In addition, Dr. Timmons has served in the following capacities: member, Pennsylvania Credentials Committee (2014−2017); member, Advisory Council Chairs as Chair of the Advisory Council for Neurological Surgery (2012−2016); member, Advisory Council for Neurological Surgery (2009−2018); member, Committee on Trauma (COT) (2005−2013); member, Verification and Review Committee (VRC) (2011−present); member Trauma Systems Evaluation and Planning Committee and Reviewer (2005–2013); Trauma Systems Consultation Executive Committee (2006-2013); member, COT Performance Improvement and Patient Safety Committee (2005–2013); member, COT Neurosurgery Committee (2005-2013) and Chair (2012-2013); and liaison, Program Committee (2010−2012).

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Dr. Wolinsky is professor and chief value officer, University of California Davis Medical Center. He will be moving to Dartmouth Medical Center in 2022. An esteemed surgeon-scientist and educator, Dr. Wolinsky earned his BA in biochemistry at Columbia College and his MD at New York University, New York City. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Stony Brook Medical Center, NY, and New York University/Bellevue Medical Center. He did his fellowship training in orthopaedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.

He has been an ACS Governor since 2016 and was Vice-Chair (2019−2020) and Chair (2020−present) of the B/G Health Policy and Advocacy Workgroup; he was a member of the workgroup (2017−2019). In addition, he has served on the Advisory Council for Orthopaedic Surgery (2016−2022), the COT (2010−2018), and the VRC (2011−present).

The following individuals were reelected to the B/R:

• James C. Denneny III, MD, FACS, Alexandria, VA (third term), otolaryngology−head-and-neck surgeon
• Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS, St. Louis, MO (third term), general surgeon
• Lena M. Napolitano, MD, FACS, Ann Arbor, MI (second term), general surgeon
• Linda G. Phillips, MD, FACS, Galveston, TX (third term), plastic and reconstructive surgeon
• Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS, Nashville, TN (second term), general surgeon
• Anton N. Sidawy, MD, FACS, Washington, DC (third term), vascular surgeon

B/G Executive Committee

The B/G has elected the following individuals to its Executive Committee:

Chair: Danielle Saunders Walsh, MD, FACS, FAAP, CPHQ, a pediatric surgeon, founded and leads Pirate Surgery, PLLC in Greenville, NC. She recently served as general surgery residency program director, department of surgery vice-chair for diversity and inclusion, and director of surgical quality, James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital and Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. She is a former President of the Association of Women Surgeons and President of the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, for which she serves as Governor at-Large.

Vice-Chair and Advocacy Pillar Lead: Ross F. Goldberg, MD, FACS, district medical group vice-chairman of surgery and specialty ambulatory medical director for Valleywise Health, Phoenix, AZ; he also serves as chief, division of general surgery, as well as the director, robotic surgery program, and director, minimally invasive and hepatic surgery. He is an associate professor of surgery at Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix.

Secretary: Oscar D. Guillamondegui, MD, MPH, FACS, chief, division of trauma and surgical critical care; medical director, trauma intensive care unit; professor of surgery; and director, Multidisciplinary Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic; he also holds the Carol Ann Gavin Directorship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Vanderbilt University Health, Nashville, TN.

Diversity Pillar Lead: Cherisse D. Berry, MD, FACS, associate trauma medical director, New York City Health and Hospitals, Bellevue; associate professor of surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; and medical director, Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion-Inpatient Surgery, NYU Langone Health.

Communications Pillar Lead: Shannon M. Foster, MD, FACS, a trauma, critical care and acute care surgeon who transitioned after 12 years in academic medicine to both clinical work and providing non-clinical administrative support to Level 1 and Level 2 trauma centers. Her work encompasses external consulting, peer review, legal commentary, and other services through SMF Coverage & Solutions LLC. She is the President of the Keystone Chapter of the ACS and Pennsylvania Governor at-Large.

Quality Pillar Lead: Lillian S. Kao, MD, FACS, professor, department of surgery, and division chief, division of acute care surgery, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Education Pillar Lead: Deepak G. Nair, MD, MS, MHA, RVT, FACS, assistant professor of surgery (vascular), Florida State University Medical School, Sarasota, and chief, vascular surgery, Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

Member Services Pillar Lead: Maie A. St. John, MD, PhD, FACS, professor and chair, department of head and neck surgery; Thomas C. Calcaterra, MD, Chair in Head and Neck Surgery; and co-director, University of California Los Angeles head and neck cancer program.

In addition, the B/G elected the following Governors at-Large and Specialty Society Governors.

2021 U.S. Governors at-Large

• Alabama Chapter: Paul F. Rider, Jr., MD, FACS
• Arizona Chapter: Ross F. Goldberg, MD, FACS
• Brooklyn-Long Island Chapter: Gene F. Coppa, MD, FACS, and John McNelis, MD, FACS, FCCM
• Connecticut Chapter: Alan Kurt Meinke, MD, FACS
• Delaware Chapter: Dennis R. Witmer, MD, FACS
• Florida Chapter: Tracy R. Bilski, MD, FACS; Rohan A. Joseph, MD, FACS; John E. Mullinax, MD, FACS; and Jay A. Redan, MD, FACS
• Illinois Chapter: James W. Thiele, MD, FACS
• Indiana Chapter: Don J. Selzer, MD, FACS
• Iowa Chapter: Dionne A. Skeete, MD, FACS
• Kansas Chapter: Robert D. Winfield, MD, FACS
• Kentucky Chapter: Malay Bipin Shah, MD, FACS
• Keystone Chapter: Shannon M. Foster, MD, FACS
• Louisiana Chapter: Quyen D. Chu, MD, FACS
• Maine Chapter: Gregory T. Marshall, MD, FACS
• Maryland Chapter: Jose J. Diaz Jr., MD, FACS, and Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, FACS
• Massachusetts Chapter: Peter S. Hopewood, MD, FACS, and Anne Campbell Larkin, MD, FACS
• Metropolitan Chicago Chapter: Marek Rudnicki, MD, FACS
• Michigan Chapter: Craig A. Reickert, MD, FACS, and Wayne E. VanderKolk, MD, FACS
• Mississippi Chapter: Christopher D. Anderson, MD, FACS
• Montana & Wyoming Chapter: Kevin Helling, MD, FACS, and John B. Pickhardt, MD, FACS
• Nevada Chapter: Annabel E. Barber, MD, FACS
• New Jersey Chapter: Adam M. Kopelan, MD, FACS
• New Mexico Chapter: Bridget Noel Fahy, MD, FACS
• New York Chapter: William Doscher, MD, FACS, and Jacob Moalem, MD, FACS
• North Carolina Chapter: Danielle Saunders Walsh, MD, FACS, FAAP
• North Dakota Chapter: Michael S. Bouton, MD, FACS
• North Texas Chapter: Rosa E. Cuenca, MD, FACS, and Sharmila Dissanaike, MD, FACS, FCCM
• Northern California Chapter: Michael J. Campbell, MD, FACS; David T. Cooke, MD, FACS;
  Dan Eisenberg, MD, FACS; Wen Tsong Shen, MD, FACS; and Mary M. Wolfe, MD, FACS
• Ohio Chapter: Michael D. Goodman, MD, FACS; Munier M.S. Nazzal, MBChB, FACS; and Alisha D. Reiss, MD, FACS
• Rhode Island: Adam A. Klipfel, MD, FACS
• South Florida Chapter: John I. Lew, MD, FACS
• South Texas Chapter: Robert O. Carpenter, MD, FACS; Brian R. Davis, MD, FACS; and Lillian S. Kao, MD, FACS
• Southern California Chapter: Rodrigo F. Alban, MD, FACS; Sharon S. Lum, MD, FACS; and Brant A. Putnam, MD, FACS
• Southwestern Pennsylvania Chapter: Marc E. Brozovich, MD, FACS, and James T. McCormick, DO, FACS
• Tennessee Chapter: Brian J. Daley, MD, FACS, and Ingrid M. Meszoely, MD, FACS
• Virginia Chapter: Timothy R. Shaver, MD, FACS
• Washington Chapter: Timothy W. Bax, MD, FACS
• West Virginia Chapter: Mark A. Choueiri, MD, FACS
• Wisconsin Surgical Society - A Chapter of the ACS: Timothy J. Ridolfi, MD, FACS

2021 Canadian Governors at-Large

• Alberta Chapter: Sean D. P. McFadden, MD, FACS
• New Brunswick: Hari K. Ondiveeran, MBBS, FACS
• Newfoundland and Labrador: Darrell C. Boone, MD, FACS
• Saskatchewan: David N. Ginther, MD, FACS
• Ontario Chapter: Carol J. Swallow, MD, FACS

2021 International Governors at-Large

• Bahrain: Jamal Saleh, MBBCh, FACS
• China-Hong Kong Chapter: Peter Hiu-Ming Tung, MB BS, FACS
• France Chapter: Oliver Jean-Yves J. Monnuese, MD, FACS
• Germany Chapter: Ernst Klar, MD, FACS
• Iraq Chapter: Ali Abbas Hashim Al-musawi, MBChB, FACS
• Israel Chapter: Yoram S. Kluger, MD, FACS
• South Africa Chapter: Pradeep H. Navsaria, MBChB, FCS(SA), FACS
• Spain Chapter: Luis Grande, MD, FACS
• Switzerland Chapter: Lukas G. Eisner, MD, FACS
• Trinidad and Tobago Chapter: Dilip V. Dan, MBBS, FACS
• Uruguay Chapter: Roberto R. T. Morencio, MD, FACS
• Venezuela Chapter: Rafael Casanova-Duarte, MD, FACS

2021 Specialty Society Governors

• American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS): Manoj T. Abraham, MD, FACS
• American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Inc. (AAOHNS): Gregory W. Randolph, MD, FACS
• American Association for Hand Surgery (AAHS): Nashaat H. Naam, MD, FACS
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST): Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, FACS
• American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS): Todd K. Rosengart, MD, FACS
• American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES): Carmen C. Solorzano, MD, FACS
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS): Mark E. Shaffrey, MD, FACS
• American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS): Ghali E. Ghali, DDS, MD, FRCS(Ed), FACS
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Jeannine A. Villella, DO, FACOG, FACS
• American Head and Neck Society (AHNS): Maie A. St. John, MD, PhD, FACS
• American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH): Jennifer Filip Waljee, MD, FACS
• American Society of General Surgeons (ASGS): George K. Gillian, MD, FACS
• Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS): Amit R. T. Joshi, MD, FACS
• Association of VA Surgeons (AVAS): Seth A. Spector, MD, FACS
• Association of Women Surgeons (AWS): Susan E. Pories, MD, FACS
• Department of the Army: Colonel Tyson E. Becker, MD, FACS
• Department of the Navy: Captain Obie M. Powell, MD, FACS, USN
• Excelsior Surgical Society (ESS): CAPT Gordon G. Wisbach III, MD, FACS, USN
• Midwest Surgical Association (MSA): William C. Cirocco, MD, FACS
• National Medical Association (NMA): Wendy Ricketts Greene, MD, FACS
• Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS): Joann M. Lohr, MD, FACS
• Society of Academic Urologists (SAU): Kate H. Kraft, MD, FACS
• Society of University Otolaryngologists (SUO): Anand K. Devaiah, MD, FACS
• The Aesthetic Society (ASAPS): Herluf G. Lund Jr. MD, FACS
• The Fellowship Council (FC): Samer G. Mattar, MD, FACS, FRCS, FASMBS, DABOM
• Western Surgical Association (WSA): Charles R. St. Hill MD, MSc, FACS
• Western Thoracic Surgical Association (WTSA): Richard I. Whyte, MD, FACS