• Officers & Committees

Officers 2019 – 2020

President

James H. Black, MD
Johns Hopkins Hospital

President-Elect

Matthew Corriere, MD
University of Michigan

Secretary

Jason T. Lee, MD
Stanford University

Treasurer

Mark Conrad, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Recorder

Ravi Veeraswamy, MD
Medical University of South Carolina

Councilor-at-Large

Misty Humphries, MD
University of California, Davis

Councilor-at-Large

Todd Berland, MD
New York University

Councilor-at-Large

Dawn Coleman, MD
University of Michigan

Immediate Past President

Jonathan L. Eliason, MD
University of Michigan

Past President

Peter Nelson, MD
University of Oklahoma

Program Committee (Spring 2019 – 2020)

  • Shang Loh, Chair
  • Matthew Wooster
  • Yazan Duwayri
  • Shipra Arya
  • Karen Woo
  • Caitlin Hicks
  • Bjoern Suckow

Program Committee (Winter 2019-2020)

  • Ravi Rajani, Chair
  • Natalie Glebova, Vice Chair
  • Luke Brewster
  • Faisal Aziz
  • Andrew Meltzer
  • Karan Garg
  • Jeanie Ruddy
  • Max Wohlauer

Standing Committees

Communications

Ying Wei Lum, Chair

Website Subcommittee

  • Mounir (Joe) Haurani, Chair
  • Kristopher Charlton-Ouw
  • Kelly Kempe
  • Matthew Smeds

Newsletter Subcommittee

  • Ravishankar Hasanadka, Chair
  • Laura Drudi
  • Gregory Magee
  • Adel Barkat

Fundraising

  • Niten Singh, Chair
  • Rebecca Kelso
  • Mel Sharafuddin
  • Jordan Stern
  • Jeffrey Siracuse
  • James Black
  • Matt Corriere
  • Jason Lee
  • Mark Conrad
  • Dawn Coleman

Bylaws

  • Bryan Ehlert, Chair
  • Charles Fox
  • Kakra Hughes

Grants & Scholarships

  • Christopher Smolock, Chair
  • Faisal Aziz
  • Benjamin Brook
  • Misty Humphries
  • Todd Berland
  • Dawn Coleman

Membership Development

  • Katherine Gallagher, Chair
  • Mel Sharafuddin
  • Justin Hurie
  • Nicolas Mouawad
  • Hasan Aldailami
  • Jason Lee

Women & Diversity

  • Venita Chandra, Chair
  • Jeanie Ruddy
  • Jill Zink
  • Sam Cox

Vascular Resident Education Committee

  • Joanelle Lugo, Co-Chair (Fellows Program)
  • Jordan Stern, Co-Chair (Technology Program)
  • Matthew Smeds
  • Raghunandan Motaganahalli
  • Dave Kauvar
  • Jaime Benarroch-Gampel
  • Gabby Velazquez
  • Karan Garg (Ex-officio)
  • Dawn Coleman (Ex-officio)

Student Education Ad Hoc Committee

  • John Rectenwald, Chair
  • David O’Connor
  • Shang Loh
  • Max Wohlauer
  • Courtney Morgan
  • Tze-Woe Tan
  • Michelle Williams
  • William Yoon

VESS Representatives

Representative to the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors
Mark Conrad, MD

Representative to the ACS Advisory Council for Surgical Specialties
Peter Nelson, MD

Vascular Surgery Board of the ABS
Bernadette Aulivola, MD

SVS Executive Committee
Murray Shames, MD

SVS Young Surgeons Advisory
Misty Humphries, MD