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