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

2023 TSF Research Awards Committee**:

Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, MD – Chair
Farhood Farjah, MD – Vice Chair

Gorav Ailawadi, MD
Leah Backhus, MD, MPH
Matthew Bott, MD
Stephen Broderick, MD
Yvonne Carter, MD
Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS
Jonathan D’Cunha, MD
Mark Ferguson, MD
Jason Glotzbach, MD
Danielle Gottlieb Sen, MS, MD, MPH
Kimberly A. Holst, MD
Dawn Hui, MD
Michael Ibrahim, MBBS, PhD
Douglas R. Johnston, MD
Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD
Karen Kim, MD
Johannes Kratz, MD
Damien LaPar, MD, MSc
Bradley Leshnower, MD
Feiran Lou, MD
Constantine Mavroudis, Jr., MD
Gita N. Mody, MD, MPH
David Odell, MD, MMSc
Maral Ouzounian, MD, PhD
Varun Puri, MD, MSCI
Elizabeth Stephens, MD, PhD
Matthew Stone, MD
Ram Kuman Subramanyan, MD, PhD
Paul Tang, MD, PhD
Luis Tapias Vargas, MD
Patricia Thistlethwaite, MD, PhD
Frederick Tibayan, MD
Harma Turbendian, MD
Abby White, DO
Bryan Whitson, MD, PhD
Berhane Worku, MD
Sai Yendamuri, MD, MBA, FACS
Joseph 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