Mara B. Antonoff, MD
Dr. Antonoff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Melanie A. Edwards, MD
Dr. Edwards is a General Thoracic Surgeon at IHA Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at St. Joe's Ann Arbor in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She holds leadership positions in The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Women in Thoracic Surgery.
Erin A Gillaspie, MD, MPH
Dr. Gillaspie is an Assistant Professor and Head of Thoracic Surgery Robotics in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Barbara C.S. Hamilton, MD, MAS
Dr. Hamilton is a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.
Luis A. Godoy, MD
Dr. Godoy is a thoracic surgeon at the University of California (UC) Davis School of Medicine and UC Davis Health. He is the assistant program director for the Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program and serves as the diversity and inclusion director in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Godoy also holds a position on the STS Workforce on Diversity and Inclusion.
Melissa M. Levack, MD
Dr. Levack is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Her clinical interests include adult congenital heart and valve disease, aortic aneurysms cardiac valve disease, coronary heart disease, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
Gabriel Loor, MD
Dr. Loor is the Surgical Director of Lung Transplantation and Co-Chief of the Section of Adult Cardiac Surgery at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
Clauden Louis, MD
Dr. Louis is a resident physician in cardiothoracic surgery at University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester New York. He volunteers extensively for the AHA, ACC, STS and TSRA.
Michael Maddaus, MD
Dr. Maddaus is a retired cardiothoracic surgeon who overcame a series of devastating personal and professional challenges, all of which led to his development of The Resilience Bank Account, critical habits that lead to optimal physical, mental, and emotional performance. He is an international leader in physician wellness and chairs the STS Task Force on Wellness.
Brian Mitzman, MD
Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute, focusing on non-cardiac General Thoracic Surgery.
Nahush A. Mokadam, MD
Dr. Mokadam is the Division Chief and Professor of Cardiac Surgery at The Ohio State University in Columbus.
Tom C. Nguyen, MD
Dr. Nguyen is internationally recognized with expertise in performing complex heart operations through the smallest possible incision. He has a particular interest in minimally invasive mitral, aortic, atrial septal defect (ASD) closures, and robotic heart surgery. He is also an expert in transcatheter procedures, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip, performing more than 2,400 implants. Dr. Nguyen serves as the Chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Helen and Charles Schwab Distinguished Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.
David D. Odell, MD, MMSc
Dr. Odell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Olugbenga T. Okusanya, MD
Dr. Okusanya is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He specializes in thoracic surgery.
V. Seenu Reddy, MD, MBA
Dr. Reddy is the Surgical Director of the Structural Heart Program at TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He also is the current President of the Nashville Academy of Medicine.
Ibrahim Sultan, MD
Dr. Sultan is an Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.
Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS, MS
Dr. Tong is a Surgical Oncologist and Thoracic Surgeon at Duke Health in Durham, NC. She is also an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine.
Robert M. Van Haren, MD, MSPH
Dr. Van Haren is a Thoracic Surgeon at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Health, specializing in benign and malignant diseases of the lungs, esophagus, and airway. He also is an Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the UC College of Medicine.
Thomas K. Varghese Jr., MD, MS
Dr. Varghese is the Executive Medical Director and Chief Value Officer at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and Head of the Section of General Thoracic Surgery at the University of Utah. He helped create and build the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Strong for Surgery Quality Program and is the Deputy Editor of Digital Media and Digital Scholarship for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Varghese holds leadership positions in The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, ACS, Thoracic Surgery Directors Association, Society of University Surgeons, and the National Cancer Care Network (NCCN). You can connect with him at @TomVargheseJr.
Douglas E. Wood, MD
Dr. Wood is the Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle. He serves as Chair of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Lung Cancer Screening Panel and Vice-Chair of the NCCN Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Panel. He also is an STS Past President, a Past President of Thoracic Surgery Foundation, and has represented the Society on the Lung Cancer Guidelines panel of the American College of Chest Physicians.