Leadership

2021-22 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
Beth Winer

2021-2022 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