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