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
Mohsen Shabahang, MD, PhD
President-Elect
Aimee Gardner, PhD
Vice-President
Marc de Moya, MD
Secretary
Tracey Dechert, MD
Treasurer
Alan Harzman, MD
Immediate Past President
Michael Awad, MD, PhD, MHPE
Editor-in-Chief, Global Surgical Education-Journal of the ASE, and Past President
Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD
Past President
Adnan Alseidi, MD, EdM
ASE Foundation President
Amalia Cochran, MD
ACS Director of Education
Ajit Sachdeva, MD
Chair, Assessment, Curriculum, and Evaluation
Emily Huang, MD, MAEd
Vice Chair, Assessment, Curriculum, and Evaluation
Tasha Posid, MA, PhD
Chair, Awards
Cate Unruh, MEd
Vice Chair, Awards
Phoenix (Xiaodong) Chen, PhD, MSc, Beng
Chair, Citizenship and Global Responsibility
Sabrina Sanchez, MD, MPH
Vice Chair, Citizenship and Global Responsibility
Olabisi Sheppard, 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, APACS
Vice Chair, Coordinators of Surgical Education
Caroline Rhodes, BA, MBA Candidate
Chair, Development
Dmitry Nepomnayshy, MD
Vice Chair, Development
Nell Maloney, MD
Chair, DEI
Amanda Cooper, MD
Vice Chair, DEI
Sheina Theodore, MD
Chair, Faculty Development
Kenneth Lipshy, MD
Vice Chair, Faculty Development
Jacob Peschman, MD
Chair, Finance
Alan Harzman, MD
Vice Chair, Finance
Tracey Dechert, MD
Chair, Graduate Surgical Education
Kimberly Hendershot, MD
Vice Chair, Graduate Surgical Education
Kshama Jaiswal, MD
Chair, Membership
Prasad Poola, MD
Vice Chair, Membership
Sarah Jung, PhD
Chair, Program
Nabil Issa, MD
Vice Chair, Program
Brigitte Smith, MD, MHPE
Chair, Simulation
Joon Shim, MD, MPH
Vice Chair, Simulation
Matthew Ritter, MD
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
Brigitte Smith, MD, MHPE
Vice Chair, VCE
Rebecca Hoffman, 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
Liaison – WISE-MD
Mary Ann Hopkins, MD
CoSEF Representative
Caitlin Silvestri, MD