LSRS Leadership

Board of Directors:

• President: Michael Lee, MD

• Past-President: Michael Steinmetz, MD

• Past-Past-President: Jason Savage, MD

• President Elect: Rock Patel, MD, MBA

• Secretary: Alpesh Patel, MD, MBA FACS

• Secretary Elect: Matthew Colman, MD

• Treasurer: Cara Sedney, MD

• Treasurer Elect: Nicholas Spina, MD

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

• Chair of Web & Social Media Committee: David Casper, MD

• Co-Chairs of Research Committee: Benjamin Elder, MD & Harold Fogel, MD

• Co-Chairs of Education Committee: Wilson Zachary Ray, MD, MBA & Jonathan Sembrano, MD

• Co-Chairs of Program Committee: Dean Chou, MD & Matthew Colman, MD

• Co-Chairs of Membership Committee: Don Moore, MD & Timothy Witham, MD

• Co-Chairs of Development Committee: Peter Passias, MD and Jean Christophe Leveque, MD

• Chair of Planning Committee: Alpesh Patel, MD & Andrew Dailey, MD

• Chair of Hands on Surgical Techniques Course: Dominic Pelle, MD

2025/2026 Committee Membership

Development Committee

• Peter Passias, MD, Chair

• Jean-Christophe Leveque, MD, Co-Chair

  • Bilal Butt, MD

  • Ira Goldstein, MD

  • Michael McCarthy, MD, MPH

  • Christopher O’Boynick, MD

  • Ashish Patel, MD

Ethics (COI) Committee

• D. Kojo Hamilton, MD

  • Ilyas Aleem, MD

  • James Bernatz, MD

  • Scott Vincent, MD

  • Sohrab Virk, MD

Education Committee

• Wilson Zachary Ray, MD, MBA, Chair

• Jonathan Sembrano, MD, Co-Chair

  • Victor Chang, MD

  • Aladine Elsamadicy, MD

  • Mitchell Fourman, MD

  • Sohaib Hashmi, MD

  • Christopher Johnson, MD

  • Safdar Khan, MD

  • Paul Page, MD

  • Saurabh Rawall, MD

  • Jason Sansone, MD

  • Jeremy Shaw, MD

Membership Committee

• Don Moore, MD, Chair

• Timothy Witham, MD, Co-Chair

  • Lauren Boden, MD

  • Murray Echt, MD

  • Madeline Greil, MD

  • Ajit Krishnaney, MD

  • Charles Mechas, MD

  • Brendan Striano, MD

  • Bartoz Wojewnik, MD

Program Committee

• Dean Chou, MD, Chair

• Matthew Colman, MD, Co-Chair

  • Joshua Barber, MD

  • Jonathan Belding, MD

  • Alexander Butler, MD

  • Michael Conti-Mica, MD

  • Erik Gerlach, MD

  • Jonathan Grauer, MD

  • Nikhil Jain, MD

  • Charles Mechas, MD

  • Ankit Mehta, MD

  • Daniel Park, MD

  • Taylor Paziuk, MD

  • Mark Prasarn, MD

  • John V. Wainwright, MD

  • Mohamed A. Zaazoue, MD, MSc

Research Committee

• Benjamin Elder, MD, Chair

• Harold Fogel, MD, Co-Chair

  • Julie Chan, MD

  • Emmett Gannon, MD

  • Jacob Greenberg, MD, MSCI

  • Mark Prasarn, MD

  • Hemil Maniar, MD

  • Marcus Mazur, MD

  • Christopher McDonald, MD

  • Morteza Sadeh, MD

Website/Social Media Committee

• David Casper, MD, Chair

  • Ashish Patel, MD

  • Josh Piche, MD

  • James Showery, MD