2025-2026 Board of Directors
Officers
Russell
S. Berman, MD, FSSO
President (2026)
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY
Kenneth
K. Tanabe, MD, FSSO
President Elect (2026)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Tari
A. King, MD, FSSO
Treasurer (2026)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Margo
Shoup, MD, MBA, FSSO
Vice President (2027)
MultiCare Cancer Institute
Tacoma, WA
Herbert
J. Zeh, III, MD, FACS, FSSO
Secretary (2028)
UT Southwestern
Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Ronald
P. DeMatteo, MD, FSSO
Immediate Past President (2027)
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Board of Directors
Callisia
Clarke, MD, MS, FSSO
Member (2026)
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Ryan Fields, MD, FSSO
Member (2027)
Washington University
School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Alexandra Gangi, MD, FSSO
Director-at-Large (2026)
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Julie Hallet, MD, MSc, FSSO
International Representative (2027)
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Melissa Hogg, MD, FSSO
Member (2026)
Northshore University
Health System
Evanston, IL
Kelly K. Hunt, MD, FSSO
Second Past President (2026)
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
E. Shelley
Hwang, MD, FSSO
Member (2027)
Duke University
School of Medicine
Durham, NC
Matthew H.G. Katz, MD
Member (2028)
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Amanda Kong, MD, MS
Member (2028)
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Michael Lowe, MD, MA
Director-at-Large (2028)
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
Toan T. Nguyen, MD
Community Practice Representative (2028)
Westchester Medical Center
Valhalla, NY
Mediget
Teshome, MD, MPH, FSSO
Director-at-Large (2026)
UCLA Health
Los Angeles, CA
Shishir
K. Maithel, MD, FSSO
Surgical Oncology Insight Editor-in-Chief
Winship Cancer Institute
Atlanta, GA
Kelly
M. McMasters MD, PhD
Annals of Surgical Oncology Editor-in-Chief
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Anna Polyak, RN, JD
SSO Chief Executive Officer
Society of Surgical Oncology
Chicago, IL
| Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD, FSSO | 2024-2025 |
| Kelly K. Hunt, MD, FSSO | 2023-2024 |
| Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS, FSSO | 2022-2023 |
| Douglas S. Tyler, MD, MSHCT, FSSO | 2021-2022 |
| James R. Howe, MD | 2020-2021 |
| David L. Bartlett, MD | 2019-2020 |
| Armando E. Giuliano, MD | 2018-2019 |
| Kelly McMasters, MD, PhD | 2017-2018 |
| Daniel G. Coit, MD | 2016-2017 |
| Jeffrey A. Drebin, MD, PhD | 2015-2016 |
| Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD | 2014-2015 |
| V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD | 2013-2014 |
| Monica Morrow, MD | 2012-2013 |
| James S. Economou, MD, PhD | 2011-2012 |
| Mitchell C. Posner, MD | 2010-2011 |
| Fabrizio Michelassi, MD | 2009-2010 |
| William G. Cance, MD | 2008-2009 |
| Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD | 2007-2008 |
| Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD | 2006-2007 |
| Timothy J. Eberlein, MD | 2005-2006 |
| S. Eva Singletary, MD* | 2004-2005 |
| Alfred M. Cohen, MD | 2003-2004 |
| John M. Daly, MD | 2002-2003 |
| John E. Niederhuber, M.D. | 2001-2002 |
| William C. Wood, MD | 2000-2001 |
| Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PhD | 1999-2000 |
| Edward M. Copeland III, MD | 1998-1999 |
| David P. Winchester, MD | 1997-1998 |
| Kirby I. Bland, MD | 1996-1997 |
| Murray F. Brennan, MD | 1995-1996 |
| Bernard Gardner, MD | 1994-1995 |
| Samuel A. Wells, Jr., MD | 1993-1994 |
| Donald L. Morton, MD* | 1992-1993 |
| Charles M. Balch, MD | 1991-1992 |
| Alfred S. Ketcham, MD* | 1990-1991 |
| Benjamin F. Rush, Jr., MD* | 1989-1990 |
| Blake Cady, MD* | 1988-1989 |
| J. Bradley Aust, MD* | 1987-1988 |
| Robert V.P. Hutter, MD* | 1986-1987 |
| Victor D. Dembrow, MD* | 1985-1986 |
| Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD | 1984-1985 |
| Robert J. McKenna, Sr., MD* | 1983-1984 |
| Gerald P. Murphy, MD, DSc* | 1982-1983 |
| Jerome J. DeCosse, MD* | 1981-1982 |
| Condict Moore, MD* | 1980-1981 |
| Walter Lawrence, Jr., MD* | 1979-1980 |
| LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., MD* | 1978-1979 |
| Harvey W. Baker, MD* | 1977-1978 |
| William R. Nelson, MD* | 1976-1977 |
| Lewis W. Guiss, MD* | 1975-1976 |
| Edward F. Scanlon, MD* | 1974-1975 |
| Robert J. Schweitzer, MD* | 1973-1974 |
| Arthur I. Holleb, MD* | 1972-1973 |
| Stuart H.Q. Quan, MD* | 1971-1972 |
| Arthur G. James, MD* | 1970-1971 |
| Guy F. Robbins, MD* | 1969-1970 |
| Sam A. Wilkins, Jr., MD* | 1968-1969 |
| Theodore R. Miller, MD* | 1967-1968 |
| Theodore Winship, MD* | 1966-1967 |
| Glenn H. Leak, MD* | 1965-1966 |
| Lemuel Bowden, MD* | 1964-1965 |
| Ashbel C. Williams, MD* | 1963-1964 |
| Calvin T. Klopp, MD* | 1962-1963 |
| Maus W. Stearns, Jr., MD* | 1961-1962 |
| William S. MacComb, MD* | 1960-1961 |
| John L. Pool, MD* | 1959-1960 |
| Ralph R. Braund, MD* | 1958-1959 |
| Joseph H. Farrow, MD* | 1957-1958 |
| Elliott Scarborough, MD* | 1956-1957 |
| Frank W. Foote, Jr., MD* | 1955-1956 |
| Gordon P. McNeer, MD* | 1954-1955 |
| Douglas Sunderland, MD* | 1953-1954 |
| Robert Brown, MD* | 1952-1953 |
| Thomas J. Anglem, MD* | 1951-1952 |
| Danley P. Slaughter, MD* | 1950-1951 |
| Edgar L. Frazell, MD* | 1949-1950 |
| Edgar L. Frazell, MD* | 1948-1949 |
| John Blady, MD* | 1947-1948 |
| George Sharp, MD* | 1942-1947 |
| William S. MacComb, MD* | 1941-1942 |
| William S. MacComb, MD* | 1940-1941 |