Ex Officio Members
Executive Director, American Board of Surgery |  Jo Buyske MD
Editor, Journal of Surgical Education | Douglas S. Smink MD, MPH

Representative ACS Advisory Council on General Surgery |  Farin Amersi MD
Chair Residency Review Committee for Surgery | Karen Brasel MD
Director Division of Education American College of Surgeons | Ajit Sachdeva MD
APDS Representative to the ACS Board of Governors | Amit Joshi MD
APDS Representative to SAGES | Rana Higgins MD
APDS Representative to ASE | Tania Arora MD
APDS Representative to the OPDA | Daniel Dent MD
APDS Representative to ERAS & AAMC | Jennifer Serfin MD
APDS Liaison with SCORE | Mo Shabahang MD
President Association of Residency Administrators in Surgery | Hemali Shah C-TAGME, PACE
Resident Representatives |  Jasmine Walker MD MA MPH and Threshia Malcolm MD, MS

 

Honorary Life Members
Arthur H Aufses Jr, MD
Robert Berry MD
Dominic A DeLaurentis MD
Paul Friedmann MD
Ward O Griffen Jr, MD
Robert E Hermann MD
Walter Pories MD
John Potts MD
Paula Termuhlen MD

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Friedell Fund Board (term duration listed)
David Harrington
Marcela Ramirez 
Ben Jarman 
Mariela Rivera 
Andreas Meier 
Jamie Robertson
Elizabeth Dauer
Doug Smink 

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By virtue of the APDS By-Laws changes adopted in October, 2022, the scope of the Nominating Committee’s responsibilities and recommendations have been expanded to include also proposing a slate of Officers for the Board of the Mark Friedell Education and Research Fund.