Governance
2023 TSF Board of Directors
Joseph A. Dearani, MD – President, Term Ends 2024
Virginia R. Litle, MD – Vice President, Term Ends 2025
Juan A. Crestanello, MD – Secretary, Term Ends 2025
Anthony L. Estrera, MD – Treasurer Term Ends 2024
Gorav Ailawadi, MD – Term Ends 2026
Carolyn A. Dubeau, MD (Resident Director) – Term Ends 2025
Edward P. Chen, MD – Term Ends 2024
Melanie A. Edwards, MD – Term Ends 2024
Karen M. Kim, MD – Term Ends 2026
Scott A. Lemaire, MD – Terms Ends 2025
Thomas E. MacGillivray, MD – Term Ends 2024
Meena Nathan, MD – Term Ends 2025
Tom C. Nguyen, MD – Term Ends 2024
Vinod H. Thourani, MD – Term Ends 2024
Elaine E. Tseng, MD – Term Ends 2026
2022 TSF Research Awards Committee*:
Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, MD — Chair
Farhood Farjah, MD — Vice Chair
Gorav Ailawadi, MD
Arman Arghami, MD
Roland Assi, MD
Leah M. Backhus, MD
Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD
Ankit Bharat, MD
Matthew J. Bott, MD
Stephen R. Broderick, MD
Christopher R. Burke, MD
Edward Cantu, MD
Yvonne M. Carter, MD
Joanna Chikwe, MD
Elizabeth A. David, MD
Jonathan D’Cunha, MD, PhD
Robert D. Davis, MD
Jessica S. Donington, MD
Cherie P. Erkmen, MD
Farhood Farjah, MD
Mark K. Ferguson, MD
Felix G. Fernandez, MD
Michael P. Fischbein, MD
Mario F. L. Gaudino, MD
Ravi K. Ghanta, MD
Andrew B. Goldstone, MD
Danielle Gottlieb Sen, MD
Dawn S. Hui, MD
James Jaggers, MD
Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD
Biniam Kidane, MD
Arman Kilic, MD
Karen M. Kim, MD
Mark J. Krasna, MD
Johannes R. Kratz, MD
Bradley G. Leshnower, MD
Kevin W. Lobdell, MD
Feiran Lou, MD
Constantine Mavroudis, MD
Gita N. Mody, MD
Meena Nathan, MD
David D. Odell, MD
Varun Puri, MD
Jessica Y. Rove, MD
Sahar Saddoughi, MD
Toshiharu Shinoka, MD, PhD
Sunil Singhal, MD
Ram Kumar Subramanyan, MD
Ibrahim Sultan, MD
Paul C. Tang, MD
Luis F. Tapias, MD
Patricia A. Thistlethwaite, MD, PhD
Frederick A. Tibayan, MD
Elaine E. Tseng, MD — Chair
Harma K. Turbendian, MD
Grayson H. Wheatley, III, MD
Abby White, MD
Bryan A. Whitson, MD, PhD
Berhane Worku, MD
Bo Yang, MD, PhD
Sai S. Yendamuri, MD
Brittany A. Zwischenberger, MD
Joseph B. Zwischenberger, MD
*Grant applicants are prohibited from contacting TSF Research Committee Members. TSF Award questions can be e-mailed to tsf@sts.org.
Past TSF Presidents:
2019-2022
Joseph E. Bavaria, MD
2017-2019
Douglas E. Wood, MD
2014-2017
John H. Calhoon, MD
2011-2014
G. Alexander Patterson, MD
2008-2010
Michael J. Mack, MD
2006-2007
Lawrence H. Cohn, MD
2003-2005
John R. Benfield, MD
2001-2002
David B. Skinner, MD
1998-2000
Robert B. Wallace, MD
1995-1997
Martin F. McKneally, MD
1991-1994
Harold V. Liddle, MD
1989-1990
Robert L. Replogle, MD