LSRS Leadership

Board of Directors:

• President: Michael Steinmetz, MD

• Past-President: Jason Savage, MD

• Past-Past-President: Wellington Hsu, MD

• President Elect: Michael Lee, MD

• Secretary: Rock Patel, MD, MBA

• Secretary Elect: Alpesh Patel, MD, MBA FACS

• Treasurer: Andrew Dailey, MD

• Treasurer Elect: Cara Sedney, MD

• Chair of Ethics Committee: D. Kojo Hamilton, MD

• Co-Chairs of Website/Social Media Committee: Raymond Hah, MD & David Casper, MD

• Co-Chairs of Research Committee: Dominic Pelle, MD & Benjamin Elder, MD

• Co-Chairs of Education Committee: Matthew Colman, MD & Wilson Zachary Ray, MD, MBA

• Co-Chairs of Program Committee: Nicholas Spina, MD & Dean Chou, MD

• Co-Chairs of Membership Committee: Cara Sedney, MD & Don Moore, MD

• Co-Chairs of Development Committee: Mel Helgeson, MD & Peter Passias, MD

• Chair of Planning Committee: Alpesh Patel, MD

2025/2026 Committee Membership

Development Committee

• Mel Helgeson, MD, Chair

• Peter Passias, MD, Co-Chair

  • Donald Fredericks Jr., MD

  • Ira Goldstein, MD

  • Chi Lim, MD

  • Christopher O’Boynick, MD

  • Ashish Patel, MD

  • Jeremy Shaw, MD

Ethics (COI) Committee

• D. Kojo Hamilton, MD

  • James Bernatz, MD

  • Emmett Gannon, MD

  • Jacob Hoffman, MD

  • Scott Vincent, MD

  • Bartosz Wojewnik, MD

Education Committee

• Matthew Colman, MD, Chair

• Wilson Zachary Ray, MD, MBA, Co-Chair

  • Alexander Butler, MD

  • E. Patrick Curry, MD

  • Harold Fogel, MD

  • Mitchell Fourman, MD

  • Joseph Lee, MD

  • Michael McCarthy, MD

  • Paul Page, MD

  • Jason Sansone, MD

  • Jeremy Shaw, MD

Membership Committee

• Cara Sedney, MD, Chair

• Don Moore, MD, Co-Chair

  • Joshua Barber, MD

  • Lauren Boden, MD

  • Haariss Ilyas, MD

  • Ajit Krishnaney, MD

  • Sheng Fu ‘Larry’ Lo, MD, MHS, FAANS

  • Charles Mechas, MD

  • Jason Meldau, MD

  • Samuel Overly, MD

  • Timothy Witham, MD

Program Committee

• Nicholas Spina, MD, Chair

• Dean Chou, MD, Co-Chair

  • Jonathan Belding, MD

  • Michael Conti-Mica, MD

  • Benjamin Elder, MD

  • Jonathan Grauer, MD

  • Daniel Park, MD

  • Taylor Paziuk, MD

  • Mark Prasarn, MD

  • Jonathan Sembrano, MD

Research Committee

• Dominic Pelle, MD, Chair

• Benjamin Elder, MD, Co-Chair

  • Ilyas Aleem, MD

  • Jose Canseco, MD

  • Julie Chan, MD

  • Jacob Greenberg, MD, MSCI

  • Safdar Khan, MD

  • Hemil Maniar, MD

  • Anti Mehta, MD

  • Catherine Olinger, MD

Website/Social Media Committee

• Raymond Hah, MD, Chair

• David Casper, MD, Co-Chair

  • Jose Canseco, MD

  • Srikanth Divi, MD

  • Emmett Gannon, MD

  • Ashish Patel, MD

  • John Wainwright, MD