Leadership
2017-18 STSA Executive Council
President
Kevin Accola
Council Chair
David R. Jones
Past President
Andrea J. Carpenter
President-Elect
Jeff Jacobs
Vice President
Richard K. Freeman
Secretary/Treasurer
Daniel L. Miller
Secretary/Treasurer-Elect
Shanda H. Blackmon
Director of CME
Scott A. LeMaire
Historian
John W. Hammon
Councilors-at-Large
Faisal G. Bakaeen
Melanie A. Edwards
M. Blair Marshall
Representative, Board of Governors of ACS
Joseph B. Zwischenberger
Representative, Advisory Council for Cardiothoracic Surgery of ACS
Stephen C. Yang
Editor, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
G. Alexander Patterson
Executive Director
Beth Winer
2017-18 Leadership Committees
Program Committee
- Faisal G. Bakaeen, Co-Chair
- Elizabeth A. David, Co-Chair
- Kevin Accola
- Harold Burkhart
- Joseph A. Dearani
- David R. Jones
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Daniel L. Miller
- Daniela Molena
- Ouraniza Preventza
Postgraduate Committee
- Kirk Kanter, Co-Chair
- Daniel L. Miller, Co-Chair
- Gorav Ailawadi
- Matthew Bott
- David R. Jones
- Ahmet Kilic
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Todd Rosengart
- Chad Stasik
CME Committee
- Scott A. LeMaire, Chair/Director
- Faisal G. Bakaeen
- Elizabeth A. David
- Kirk Kanter
- Daniel L. Miller
Membership Committee
- Edward B. Savage, Chair
- James J. Gangemi
- Brent Keeling
- Andrew J. Lodge
Scholarship Committee
- Michael E. Halkos, Chair
- Tom Beaver
- Anthony D. Cassano
- Min Kim
- Jennifer S. Nelson
Finance Committee
- Mark Slaughter, Chair
- Kevin Accola
- S. Adil Husain
- Jeff Jacobs
- David R. Jones
- Richard L. Lee
- Daniel L. Miller
Nominating Committee
- Richard L. Prager, Chair
- John H. Calhoon
- Andrea J. Carpenter
- David R. Jones
