Leadership
2019-20 STSA Executive Council
President
Vinod H. Thourani
Council Chair
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Vice President/ President-Elect
Daniel L. Miller
Secretary/Treasurer
Shanda H. Blackmon
Director of CME
Scott A. LeMaire
Historian
Constantine Mavroudis
Councilors-at-Large
James J. Gangemi
Daniela Molena
T. Brett Reece
Representative, Board of Governors of ACS
TBD
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
- Ourania Preventza, Co-Chair
- Harold M. Burkhart, Co-Chair
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Daniel L. Miller
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Shanda H. Blackmon
- James St. Louis
- Vinay Badhwar
Postgraduate Committee
- Gorav Ailawadi, Co-Chair
- Todd K. Rosengart, Co-Chair
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Mark I. Block
- Damien J. LaPar
CME Committee
- Scott A. LeMaire, Chair
- Ourania Preventza
- Harold M. Burkhart
- Gorav Ailawadi
- Todd K. Rosengart
Membership Committee
- James J. Gangemi, Chair
- Brent Keeling
- Hugh M. Van Gelder
Scholarship Committee
- Min P. Kim, Chair
- Thomas M. Beaver
- Anastasios C. Polimenakos
- Mara Antonoff
Finance Committee
- Mark S. Slaughter, Chair
- Vinod H. Thourani
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
- Daniel L. Miller
- Shanda H. Blackmon
- S. Adil Husain
- Thoralf M. Sundt
Nominating Committee
- Andrea J. Carpenter, Chair
- David R. Jones
- Kevin D. Accola
- Jeffrey P. Jacobs
