Society of Surgical Oncology

Leadership

Officers & Executive Committee | Executive Council | Committees
| Past Presidents |Annals of Surgical Oncology Editorial Board

 

Officers & Executive Committee

President
Mitchell C. Posner, MD

President-Elect
James S Economou, MD

Vice President
Monica Morrow, MD

 Secretary
Jeffrey Drebin, MD

Treasurer
V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD

Executive Council

Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, Immediate Past President ('10)
William G. Cance, MD, Past President ('09)
Peter D. Beitsch, MD ('10)
Kenneth K. Tanabe, MD ('10)
Douglas S. Tyler, MD ('10)
Joseph M. Klausner, MD ('10)
Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, MD ('11)

David C. Linehan, MD ('11)
Kelly M. McMasters, MD ('12)
Ronald J. Weigel, MD ('12)

Councilors-at-Large
Martin J. Heslin, MD ('10)
Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD ('11)
Sharon Weber, MD ('12)

Committees
Clinical Affairs Committee
David A. Kooby, MD, Chair ('11)
Stephen E. Ettinghausen, MD,
  Past Chair, ex officio  ('10)
Bernard Nordlinger, MD ('11)
Sharon M. Weber, MD ('11)
Thomas A. Aloia, MD ('12)		 Nora T. Jaskowiak, MD ('12)
Rache M. Simmons, MD ('12)
Herman A. De La Fuente, MD (*'13)
Alessandro Fichera, MD ('13)
Roderich E. Schwartz, MD, PhD ('13)
Susan J. Hoover, MD ('13) 
Community Surgical Oncologists Committee
Michael A. Quinones, MD, Chair ('13)
Peter D. Beitsch, MD, Past Chair, ex officio ('11)
Ira Allen Jacobs. MD ('11)
J. Michael McGee, MD 		Michael D. McPhee, MD ('12)
Thangamani Seenivasan, MD ('12)
Kimberly M. Brown, MD ('13)
Constitution and Bylaws Committee  
Marc K. Wallack, MD, Chair ('11)
Derrick J. Beech, MD ('12)		 Keith Delman, MD ('13)
Irvin D. Fleming, MD, Historian
Continuing Medical Education
Danny M. Takanishi Jr., Chair ('15)
David N. Danforth, Jr., MD, Past Chair-ex officio ('11)
Rabih M. Salloum, MD ('11)
Steven D. Trocha, MD ('11)
Dennis R. Witmer, MD ('11)
Brian J. Kaplan, MD ('12)		 Michael D. Stone, MD ('12)
Peter J. Allen, MD ('12)
Enrique Waugh, MD ('12)
Thomas Weber, MD, ex officio
Robert C.G. Martin II, MD ex officio
Eileen Widmer, ex officio
Coding and Reimbursement Committee
Francis R. Spitz, MD, Chair ('11)
Christopher K. Senkowski, MD ('11)
John C. D' Emilia, MD ('12)		 Michael D. Lieberman, MD ('12)
Joseph J. Bennett, MD ('13)
Mark M. Connolly, MD ('13)
Corporate Relations Committee
Robert C.G. Martin II. MD, Chair ('12)
Bruce J. Averbrook, MD ('11)
Charles A. Staley, MD ('11)
Mehra Golshan, MD ('12)		 Peter Shamamian, MD ('12)
Mark S. Talamonti, MD ('13)
V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD ex officio ('11)
Disparities Committee
Lisa A. Newman, MD, MPH, Chair ('12)
Steven L. Chen, MD ('11)
John F. Gibbs, MD ('11)
Ana M. Grau, MD ('11)
Eric C. Feliberti, MD ('12)		 D. Rohan Jeyarajah, MD ('12)
Peter C. Wu, MD('12)
Wayne A.I. Frederick, MD ('13)
Jane E. Mendez, MD ('13)
John H. Stewart, MD ('13)
Education Committee
James S. Economou, MD, PhD, Chair ('11)
Charles M. Balch, MD
Thomas K. Weber, MD ('11)		 Danny M. Takanishi, MD ('15)
Samuel Singer, MD ('11)
Fellowship and Research Grant Committee
Kenneth K. Tanabe, MD, Chair ('13)
Rosemary B. Duda, MD, MPH ('11)
Nancy Klauber-Demore, MD ('11)
Mark D. McKee, MD ('12)		 Udai S. Kammula, MD (12)
John A. Olson, Jr., MD, PhD ('13)
Juan Pablo Arnoletti, MD ('13)
Kerrington D. Smith, MD ('13)
Finance Committee
V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD, Chair
Mirchell C. Posner, MD		 James S. Economou, MD, PhD
International Committee
Heriberto Medina-Franco, MD, Chair ('13)
Joseph M. Klausner, MD, Past Chair ex officio ('11)
Carlos A. Garberoglio, MD ('11)
Alessandro Gronchi, MD ('11)
Jonathan Koea, MD ('11)
Benjamin O. Anderson, MD ('12)
Gerard V. Aranha, MD ('12)
Effrain Cambronero-Moraga, MD ('12)
James O. Park Jr., MD, PhD ('12)
Ulysses Ribeiro, MD ('13)		 Augusto R. Leon, MD ('13)
Yuko Kitagawa, MD, PhD ('13)
Chandrakanth Are, MD ('13)
Ulysses Zoras, MD ('13)
Clement Adebamawo, MD ('13)
Wael M.S.A. Gawad, MD, PhD ('13)
Issues and Government Affairs Committee
Mark A. Arredondo, MD, Chair ('12)
Jane E. Mendez, MD ('11)
Michael O. Meyers, MD ('11)
Jonathan S. Zager, MD ('11)		 Jose G. Guillem, MD ('12)
Leila C. Thanasoulis, MD ('12)
Jane Wey, MD ('12)
Edward A. Levine, MD ('13)
Local Arrangements Committee
Morton S. Kahlenberg, MD, Chair ('11) Eileen Widmer, Co-Chair
Membership Committee
Jeffrey A. Drebin, MD, PhD, Chair ('13)
Monica Morrow, MD, Past Chair ex officio ('11)
Russell S. Berman, MD ex officio ('11)
Chandrakanth Are, MD ('11)
Mary Sue Brady, MD ('11)
James M. McLoughlin, MD ('11)
Marissa M. Howard-McNatt, MD ('12)

Howard L. Kaufman, MD ('12)
Elisa Rush Port, MD ('12)
Rebecca R. White, MD ('13)
Christopher A. Puleo, PA-C ('13)
T. Clark Gamblin, MD ('13)
B. Scott Davidson, MD ('13)
Nominating Committee
Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD, Chair ('11)
William G. Cance, MD ('12)
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD ('13)		 Kelly M. McMasters, MD ('11)
Sharon M. Weber, MD ('11)
Outcomes Committee
Stanley P.L. Leong, MD, Chair ('12)
Aaron D. Bleznak, MD ('11)
Laurence E. McCahill, MD ('11)
Nabil Wasif, MD ('11)
Stephen B. Edge, MD ('12)
Stuart Marcus, MD ('12)		 Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS ('12)
Robert S. Krouse, MD ('13)
Jeffrey D. Wayne, MD ('13)
Steve K. Libutti, MD ('13)
Carol J. Swallow, MD, PhD ('13)
Scientific Program Committee
Thomas K. Weber MD, Chair ('11)
Jason B. Fleming, MD, Vice-Chair ('11)
James C. Cusack Jr., MD, Past Chair ex officio ('11)
Peter D. Beitsch, MD ('11)
Herbert C. Hoover Jr., MD ('11)
Michael S. Sabel, MD ('11)
Clifford S. Cho, MD ('12)
Alexander M.M. Eggermont, MD, PhD ('12)
Stephen R. Grobmyer, MD ('12)
Hong Jin Kim, MD ('12)
Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD ('13)		 Bridget N. Fahy, MD ('13)
Martin D. McCarter, MD ('13)
David J. Winchester, MD ('13)
Charles M. Balch, MD ex officio
Danny M. Takanishi, MD, ex officio ('15)
Robert C.G. Martin II, MD, ex officio ('12)
Lisa A. Newman, MD ex officio ('12)
Jonathan S. Zager, MD ('14)
Tari A. King, MD, ('14)
Gene Choi, MD ('14)
Charles R. Scoggins, MD, MBA ('14)
Training Committee
Russell S. Berman, MD, ('11)
John M. Kane, MD, Vice-Chair ('11)
Morton S. Kahlenberg, MD ('11)
Eleftherios P. Mamounas, MD ('11)
Helen A. Pass, MD ('11)
Nipun B. Merchant, MD ('12)
David W. Ollila, MD ('12)
Kevin K. Roggin, MD ('12)		 E. Ramsey Camp, MD ('13)
Hong Jin Kim, MD ('13)
Daniel Labow, MD ('13)
Anne Wallace, MD (' 14)
Martin D. McCarter, MD ('14)
David P. Jaques, MD ('14)
Douglas S. Tyler, MD, ad hoc
Training Program Directors Subcommittee - Breast Oncology
Armando Giuliano, MD, Chair
Gretchen M. Ahrendt, MD
Michael D. Alvarado, MD
Marc E. Boisvert, MD
Susan K. Boolbol, MD
Brian J. Czerniecki, MD, PhD
Amy C. Degnim, MD
Nayana Dekhne, MD
Jill R. Dietz, MD
Mahmoud El-Tamer, MD
Andrew H. Fenton, MD
Thomas G. Frazier, MD
Sheryl G.A. Gabram, MD
Jennifer Gass, MD
Nora M. Hansen, MD
Dennis R. Holmes, MD
Ronald Jones, MD
Thomas B. Julian, MD		 Thomas J. Kearney, MD
Nazanin Khakpour, MD
V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD, Vice Chair
Henry M. Kuerer, MD, PhD
A. Marilyn Leitch, MD
Julie A. Margenthaler, MD
Leslie Montgomery, MD
Monica Morrow, MD
Lisa A. Newman, MD
Nilima A. Patwardhan, MD
Rakhshanda Layeequr Rahman, MD
Sharon M. Rosenbaum Smith, MD
Brenda J. Sickle-Santanello, MD
Elin R. Sigurdson, MD
Barbara L. Smith, MD
Lorraine Tafra, MD
Irene L. Wapnir, MD
Russell S. Berman, MD, ex officio
Training Program Directors Subcommittee - Surgical Oncology
David L. Bartlett, MD, Chair
Harry D. Bear, MD, PhD
Mark Bloomston, MD
Michael A. Choti, MD
Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD
Anna Derosis, MD
Stephen B. Edge, MD
Joshua D.I. Ellenhorn, MD
N. Joseph Espat, MD
Jason B. Fleming, MD		 J. Gregory McKinnon, MD
Frederick L. Moffat, Jr., MD
Donald L. Morton, MD
Mirchell C. Posner, MD
Chandrajit P. Raut, MD
Charles R. Scoggins, MD, Vice Chair
Elin R. Sigurdson, MD
Vernon K. Sondak, MD
Frances C. Wright, MD
Russell S. Berman, MD, ex officio ('11)
Web Site Committee
Samuel Singer, MD, Chair ('11)
Adam C. Berger, MD ('11)
Bryan Clary, MD ('13)
Eric T. Kimchi, MD ('13)		 Robert C.G. Martin, MD ('11)
Marcovalerio Melis, MD ('12)
Martin R. Weiser, MD ('12)
Ad Hoc Committee - Planning
Mitchell C. Posner, MD Chair
William G. Cance, MD
V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD		 Fabrizio Michelassi, MD
Monica Morrow, MD

Task Forces

ABS Advisory
James E. Goodnight, MD, Chair
David R. Byrd, MD
Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD 		Douglas L. Fraker, MD
Peter W.T. Pisters, MD
Mitchell C. Posner, MD
Accreditation / Certification
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD, Chair
V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD		 Raphael Pollock, MD, PhD
Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD
   
Past Presidents
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD
William G. Cance, MD
Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD
Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD
Timothy J. Eberlein, MD
S. Eva Singletary, MD
Alfred M. Cohen, MD
John M. Daly, MD
John E. Niederhuber, M.D.
William C. Wood, MD
Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PhD
Edward M. Copeland III, MD
David P. Winchester, MD
Kirby I. Bland, MD
Murray F. Brennan, MD
Bernard Gardner, MD
Samuel A. Wells, Jr., MD
Donald L. Morton, MD
Charles M. Balch, MD
Alfred S. Ketcham, MD
Benjamin F. Rush, Jr., MD
Blake Cady, MD
J. Bradley Aust, MD
Robert V.P. Hutter, MD
Victor D. Dembrow, MD*
Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD
Robert J. McKenna, Sr., MD*
Gerald P. Murphy, MD, DSc*
Jerome J. DeCosse, MD*
Condict Moore, MD
Walter Lawrence, Jr., MD
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., MD
Harvey W. Baker, MD*
William R. Nelson, MD
Lewis W. Guiss, MD*
Edward F. Scanlon, MD
Robert J. Schweitzer, MD
Arthur I. Holleb, MD
Stuart H.Q. Quan, MD
Arthur G. James, MD*
Guy F. Robbins, MD
Sam A. Wilkins, Jr., MD*
Theodore R. Miller, MD*
Theodore Winship, MD*
Glenn H. Leak, MD*
Lemuel Bowden, MD*
Ashbel C. Williams, MD*
Calvin T. Klopp, MD*
Maus W. Stearns, Jr., MD
William S. MacComb, MD*
John L. Pool, MD*
Ralph R. Braund, MD*
Joseph H. Farrow, MD*
Elliott Scarborough, MD*
Frank W. Foote, Jr., MD*
Gordon P. McNeer, MD*
Douglas Sunderland, MD*
Robert Brown, MD*
Thomas J. Anglem, MD*
Danley P. Slaughter, MD*
Edgar L. Frazell, MD
Edgar L. Frazell, MD
John Blady, MD*
George Sharp, MD
William S. MacComb, MD*
William S. MacComb, MD*

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2006-2007
2005-2006
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 Annals of Surgical Oncology Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Charles M. Balch, MD
Baltimore, MD

Executive Editor
Mark S. Roh, MD
Pittsburgh, PA

Associate Editors
Kirby I. Bland, MD
Birmingham, AL

Murray F. Brennan, MD
New York, NY

Timothy J. Eberlein, MD
St. Louis, MO

Frederick Greene, MD
Charlotte, NC

Donald L. Morton, MD
Santa Monica, CA

John E. Niederhuber, MD
Bethesda, MD

Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD
Newark, DE

Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD
Houston, TX

Editorial Office
Deborah Whippen
Joseph Wiggs
Julie Leneghan
Annals of Surgical Oncology
Editorial Office
Orange Park, FL

Business Manager
M. Eileen Widmer
The Society of Surgical Oncology
Arlington Heights, IL

Consultant Editor of Biostatistics
Stephanie R. Land, PhD
Pittsburgh, PA

Emeritus Editor
Edward M. Copeland III, MD
Gainesville, FL.

Editorial Board

Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Section Editor - Alessandro Gronchi
Associate Section Editor – Chandrajit Raut
Silvie Bonvalot
Tom Delaney
Jeff Kneisel
Gary Mann
Ulysses Zoras

Breast Oncology
Section Editor – V. Suzanne Klimberg
Associate Section Editor - Lisa A. Newman
Benjamin O. Anderson
Brian Badgwell
Gildy Barbiera
Patrick I. Borgen
Anees B. Chagpar
Hiram S. Cody III
Amy Degnim
Michael Dixon
Mahmoud El-Tamer
Jennifer Gass
Kelly K. Hunt
Lisa Jacobs
Bruce Mann
Julie Margenthaler
David McCready
Monica Morrow
Isabelle Rubio
Kimberly J. Van Zee
Shawna Willey

Colorectal Cancer
Section Editor - Heidi Nelson

Endocrine Tumors
Section Editor – Alan P. B. Dackiw
Herbert Chen
Nancy Perrier
Sonia Sugg
Tina Yen

Gastrointestinal Oncology
Section Editor – Steven A. Curley
Associate Section Editor – Kenneth K. Tanabe
Anton J. Bilchik
Ronald DeMatteo
Nestor Esnaola
Jason Fleming
Morton S. Kahlenberg
Yuko Kitagawa
Saigo Kitano
David Kooby
Laura Lambert
Pedro Luna-Perez
Masaki Mori
Enders Kwok-wai Ng
Timothy Pawlik
Mitchell C. Posner
Abeezar Sarela
Charles A. Staley
Mark Talamonti
Lawrence D. Wagman

Gynecologic Oncology
Section Editor – Larry Copeland
Associate Section Editor - Charles Levenback
Thomas Herzog
Michael Hopkins

Head and Neck Oncology
Section Editor – Jeffrey N. Myers
Associate Section Editor – Joseph A. Califano III
Jay Boyle
Wesley Hicks
Randal Weber

Health Care Policy and Outcomes
Section Editor – Frederick L. Greene
Associate Section Editor – Clifford Ko
John Birkmeyer
Stephen Edge
Alan Lefor
Marty Makary
John T. Preskitt

Hepatobiliary Tumors
Section Editor - Michael A. Choti
Eddie Abdalla
Jacques Belghiti
Bryan Clary
Francesco Izzo
William Jarnagin
Bo San Paul Lai
Robert Martin
Peter Schlag
Sharon M. Weber
Jurgen Weitz

Medical Oncology
Section Editor – Jose Baselga
Douglas Blayney
Eduardo Cazap
Gabriel Hortobagyi
Richard Schilsky

Melanomas
Section Editor – Kelly M. McMasters
Associate Section Editor - Vernon Sondak
David Byrd
Alexander Eggermont
Jeffrey Gershenwald
Michael Henderson
Harald Hoekstra
Omgo Nieweg
David W. Ollila
Barry Powell
Douglas S. Tyler

Multimedia
Section Editor - Vijay Khatri, MD

Neuro-Oncology
Section Editor – Ziya L. Gokaslan
Matthew McGirt
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

Pancreatic Tumors
Section Editor - Andrew Lowy
Associate Section Editor - Richard Schulick
Peter Allen
David Bentrem
Michael Bouvet
Markus Buchler
Carlos Fernandez-del Castillo
John Hoffman

Pediatric Oncology
Section Editor – Charles N. Paidas
Mark L. Kayton
Stephen J. Shochat

Radiation Oncology
Section Editor - Thomas A. Buchholz
James Bonner
Abram Recht
Anthony Zietman

Reconstructive Oncology
Section Editor– Grant W. Carlson
Associate Section Editor - Anthony P. Tufaro
Elisabeth Beahm
Greg Reece

Thoracic Oncology
Section Editor – Stephen C. Yang
Associate Section Editor - Steven Swisher
Malcolm Brock
Andrew Chang
Ara Vaporciyan

Translational Research and Biomarkers
Section Editor - James C. Cusack
Associate Section Editor - Timothy J. Yeatman
H. Richard Alexander, Jr.
Richard J. Bold
William Cance
Joshua D.I. Ellenhorn
Peter Hohenberger
James Howe
Edward W. Martin
Han-Kwang Yang

Urologic Oncology
Section Editor – Marston Linehan
Richard Alexander
Eila Skinner