Areas of responsibility will include the 2026 Annual Meeting program and other educational programs presented in conjunction with the Annual Meeting.
J. Hunter Mehaffey, Chair — Morgantown, WV
Tom C. Nguyen, Vice Chair — Miami, FL
Adult Cardiac Surgery
Michael Bowdish, Lead — Los Angeles, CA
Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Vice Lead — St. Louis, MO
Gry Dahle — Oslo, Norway
Shinichi Fukuhara — Ann Arbor, MI
Arnar Geirsson — New York, NY
Michael Ibrahim — Wyndmoor, PA
Joon Bum Kim — Seoul, South Korea
Karen M. Kim — Austin, Texas
S. Christopher Malaisrie — Chicago, IL
Marc P. Pelletier — New Haven, CT
Sigrid Sandner — Vienna, Austria
Ibrahim Sultan — Pittsburgh, PA
Gianluca Torregrossa — Villanova, PA
Panos Vardas — Birmingham, AL
Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos — Fort Worth, TX
Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Christopher E. Mascio, Lead — Morgantown, WV
Ram Kumar Subramanyan, Vice Lead — Omaha, NE
Aaron W. Eckhauser — Wilmington, DE
Tracy R. Geoffrion — Durham, NC
Joseph W. Turek — Durham, NC
Critical Care
Jeremiah A. Hayanga, Lead — Morgantown, WV
Peter Barrett, Vice Lead — Atlanta, GA
Rakesh C. Arora — Cleveland, OH
Subhasis Chatterjee — Houston, TX
Daniel T. Engelman — Springfield, MA
General Thoracic Surgery
Felix Fernandez, Lead — Decatur, GA
Antonios Sideris, Vice Lead — Atlanta, GA
Mara B. Antonoff — Houston, TX
Alicia Bonanno — Atlanta, GA
Ian C. Bostock Rosenzweig — Coral Gables, FL
Traves Crabtree — Springfield, IL
Rudy Lackner — Omaha, NE
Varun Puri — St. Louis, MO
Rishindra M. Reddy — Ann Arbor, MI
Christopher W. Seder — Chicago, IL
Nicholas R. Teman — Aurora, CO
Stephanie G. Worrell — Tucson, AZ
Mechanical Circulatory Support & Transplant
Robert B. Hawkins, Lead — Ann Arbor, MI
Ezequiel J. Molina, Vice Lead — Atlanta, GA
Yasir Abu-Omar — Cleveland, OH
David A. D'Alessandro — Boston, MA
Amy Fiedler — San Francisco, CA
Francis D. Pagani — Ann Arbor, MI
Quality/Education/Wellness
Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Lead — Gainesville, FL
Melanie A. Edwards, Vice Lead — Ypsilanti, MI
Benjamin D. Kozower — St. Louis, MO
Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce — Burlington, MA
Danny Ramzy — Houston, TX
V. Seenu Reddy — Nashville, TN