Leadership
2022-23 STSA Executive Council
President
Daniel L. Miller
Council Chair
Vinod H. Thourani
Past Council Chair
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Vice President/ President-Elect
Stephen C. Yang
Second Vice President
Melanie A. Edwards
Secretary/Treasurer
Shanda H. Blackmon
Director of CME
Scott A. LeMaire
Director of CME-Elect
Daniela Molena
Historian
Constantine Mavroudis
Councilors-at-Large
James J. Gangemi
Daniela Molena
Ourania Preventza
Representative, Board of Governors of ACS
Jorge D. Salazar
Representative, Advisory Council for Cardiothoracic Surgery of ACS
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
STS/ACS Surgical Quality Accreditation for General Thoracic Surgery
Richard K. Freeman
Editor, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Jo Chikwe
Executive Director
Laura Medek
2022-2023 Leadership Committees
Program Committee
- Vinay Badhwar, Co-Chair
- James St. Louis, Co-Chair
- Daniel L. Miller
- Stephen C. Yang
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Daniela Molena
- Shanda H. Blackmon
- Tom Nguyen
- Jennifer Nelson
- Allan Pickens
- Mark Bleiweis
Postgraduate Committee
- Mark I. Block, Co-Chair
- Damien J. LaPar, Co-Chair
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Kevin D. Accola
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Daniela Molena
- Lisa Brown
- Bradley Taylor
- Puja G. Khaitan
- Christopher J. Knott-Craig
CME Committee
- Scott A. LeMaire, Chair
- Daniela Molena, Chair-Elect
- Vinay Badhwar
- James St. Louis
- Mark I. Block
- Damien J. LaPar
Membership Committee
- Brent Keeling, Chair
- Hugh M. Van Gelder
- Curtis Bryan
- Jason Muesse
Scholarship Committee
- Thomas M. Beaver, Chair
- Anastasios C. Polimenakos
- Mara Antonoff
- Ravi Ghanta
- Mani Daneshmand
Finance Committee
- V. Seenu Reddy, Chair
- Daniel L. Miller
- Stephen C. Yang
- Melanie A. Edwards
- Shanda H. Blackmon
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Thoralf M. Sundt
- Ghulam Abbas
- David T. Greenfield
Nominating Committee
- David R. Jones, Chair
- Kevin D. Accola
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Vinod H. Thourani
Diversity & Inclusion Committee (ad hoc)
- Shanda H. Blackmon
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Ourania Preventza
- T. Brett Reece
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Stephen C. Yang