Leadership
2018-19 STSA Executive Council
President
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Council Chair
Kevin D. Accola
Past President
David R. Jones
President-Elect
Vinod H. Thourani
Vice President
Alan M. Speir
Secretary/Treasurer
Shanda H. Blackmon
Director of CME
Scott A. LeMaire
Historian
John W. Hammon
Councilors-at-Large
Faisal G. Bakaeen
Melanie A. Edwards
T. Brett Reece
Representative, Board of Governors of ACS
Joseph B. Zwischenberger
Representative, Advisory Council for Cardiothoracic Surgery of ACS
Stephen C. Yang
STS/ACS Surgical Quality Accreditation for General Thoracic Surgery
Richard K. Freeman
Editor, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
G. Alexander Patterson
Executive Director
Beth Winer
2018-2019 Leadership Committees
Program Committee
- Joseph A. Dearani, Co-Chair
- Daniela Molena, Co-Chair
- Kevin D. Accola
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Shanda H. Blackmon
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Ourania Preventza
- Harold M. Burkhart
- James St. Louis
- Vinay Badhwar
Postgraduate Committee
- Ahmet Kilic, Co-Chair
- Matthew J. Bott, Co-Chair
- Kevin D. Accola
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Gorav Ailawadi
- Todd K. Rosengart
- Mark I. Block
- Damien J. LaPar
CME Committee
- Scott A. LeMaire, Chair
- Joseph A. Dearani
- Daniela Molena
- Ahmet Kilic
- Matthew J. Bott
Membership Committee
- Andrew J. Lodge, Chair
- James J. Gangemi
- Brent Keeling
- Hugh M. Van Gelder
Scholarship Committee
- Jennifer S. Nelson, Chair
- Min P. Kim
- Thomas M. Beaver
- Anastasios C. Polimenakos
- Mara Antonoff
Finance Committee
- Mark S. Slaughter, Chair
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Shanda H. Blackmon
- Kevin D. Accola
- Richard L. Lee
- S. Adil Husain
- Thoralf M. Sundt
Nominating Committee
- John H. Calhoon, Chair
- Andrea J. Carpenter
- David R. Jones
- Kevin D. Accola
