Leadership

Board of Directors

Adam J. Kaye, MD, MHA, FACS

Andrew R. Doben, MD, FACS

Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM

Biography

Adam Kaye wears many hats on a daily basis in his professional and personal life, as a surgical intensivist, general and trauma acute care surgeon, robotic surgeon, and a father. He is a founding member of CWIS, vice president of the Friends of Infant Toddler Services, and an active member on the board of his synagogue. He has a keen interest in the development of newer technologies in the care of those with chest wall injuries and more specifically pain management protocols and patient education.

Biography

Andy Doben is an acute care surgeon at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford CT where he is the Director of the Chest Wall Injury and Reconstructive Center. Throughout his career Dr. Doben had a laser focus on patients who sustained traumatic thoracic injuries, and more specifically rib fractures. Along with several other key members of the Chest Wall Injury Society, he has published his personal outcomes, experiences, and contributed data in support of surgical stabilization of rib fractures. Andy has been a champion of an international data repository as well as building clinical sites of distinction. In his free time he is an avid sailor who frequently drops off the grid with his wife, 2 children, and their dog.

Biography

Babak Sarani is a Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine and the Chief of Trauma Surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He graduated from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1997. He then completed his training in General Surgery at GW in 2004. Following this, he completed fellowship training in Trauma and Critical Care Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He began his career as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Critical Care Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He was recruited back to GW in 2011 where he is the Founder and Director of the Center for Trauma and Critical Care at The George Washington University Hospital. Most recently, he led the effort to establish a level 2 trauma center in Arlington, Virginia. His research interests include measurement of coagulopathy following injury, chest wall injury and reconstruction, and processes to mitigate risk of death following penetrating trauma.

Cecilia Benz, MD

Fredric M. Pieracci, MD, MPH, FACS

Kathryn G. Kuttler, PhD

Biography

Dr. Pieracci is a trauma, thoracic, and bariatric surgeon at an urban, safety net hospital in Denver, Colorado. Over the last 10 years, his main clinical and research focus has been surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRF). He is specifically interested in the indications for, timing of, and technique of the operation. He has published over 20 articles on the topic of SSRF, serves as a reviewer for 12 journals that publish articles on SSRF, and has been the principle investigator on several funded, multicenter, international trials of SSRF. He was the second president of the Chest Wall Injury Society.

Biography

Kate Martin, MBBS, BMedSci, FRACS

Mauricio A. Velasquez, MD, FACS

SarahAnn S. Whitbeck, MBA, FACEHP, CHCP

Biography

Kate is a General and Trauma Surgeon at The Royal Melbourne and Austin hospitals, in Melbourne, Australia.

She is a director with the EMST (ATLS) and DSTC faculties and is a past supervisor of the General Surgical Training Program at the Alfred. Kate is the Vice President of ANZAST and the immediate past-Chair of the EMST Committee. She is also a member of the Federal and Victorian State Trauma Committees of RACS, as well as the DSTC Committee.

Kate is a member of the RACS Academy of Surgical Educators, with an active interest in surgical and trauma education. As part of the GSA-ANZAST Trauma Training Committee, Kate has been involved in establishing the PFET
Program in Trauma, a program for Fellows of RACS.

Biography

Sebastian D. Schubl, MD, FACS

Stefan Schulz-Drost, MD, PhD, FEBS

Thomas W. White, MD, FACS, CNSC*

Biography

Dr. Schubl was raised and trained on the east coast before completing a fellowship in trauma and critical care surgery at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center. Prior to that he attended Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia and New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He has an active interest in surgical outcomes, surgical infections and translational research involving the care of the trauma patient and the critically ill. Prior to relocating to Southern California he was a member of the faculty in the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center and served as the Trauma Medical Director at that institution's trauma affiliate in Queens, Jamaica Hospital, an ACS verified level one trauma center. He is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of Emergency General Surgery at UCI Health and serves in a variety of administrative roles

Biography

Stefan Schulz-Drost graduated at the medical school of Erlangen, Germany (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen -Nuremberg) in 1997. After this, he has been trained in different surgical specialties and emergency medicine at Erlangen University hospital where he still works as an academic teacher. There he became a specialist for orthopedic and trauma surgery within the years 2004-2014. The following years until 2019 were dedicated to severely injured at the BG hospital Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin where Stefan Schulz-Drost became a European Trauma and Emergency Surgeon (UEMS). Since April he is the head of the Department of Trauma Surgery in Schwerin, which is a Level 1 Trauma center in northern Germany.

Stefan Schulz-Drost started to perform rib Fixation with rib plates at the earliest time the implants were available in Germany. The first Approach was to manage the unstable chest wall in recurrent pectus deformities. He inaugurated the Elastic Stable Chest Repair and taught a lot of surgeons how to perform this technique and the Management of chest wall injuries. Moreover, he dedicated his work to the minimization of surgical approaches, epidemiologic and biomechanic investigations as well as a classification System following the AO Standards.

Biography

Thomas (Tom) White is a trauma/critical care surgeon practicing in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Intermountain Medical Center. He currently serves the Chest Wall Injury Society as the chairman of the Education Committee. His primary clinical interests include chest wall injury and international surgical education.

He is delighted to serve on the Board of Directors and is fully committed to our mission of optimizing care for the patient with chest wall injury. When not focused on his clinical duties, he can be found running, swimming, biking, hiking, fishing, reading, and enjoying time with his loved ones.

Zachary M. Bauman, DO, MHA, FACOS, FACS

Zachary Warriner, MD, FACS

Biography

Executive Committee

President: Andrew R. Doben, MD, FACS
Past President: Zachary M. Bauman, DO, MHA, FACOS, FACS*
President-Elect: Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM
Board Chairman: Thomas W. White, MD, FACS, CNSC
Secretary/Treasurer: Zachary D. Warriner, MD, FACS
Member-At-Large: Emily Cantrell, MD, FACS
Chief Executive Officer: SarahAnn S. Whitbeck, MBA, FACEHP, CHCP

Education Committee

Annika Kay, PA-C
Bradley Faliks, MD
Christopher Wolff, MD
David S. Morris, MD, FACS
Joseph D. Forrester, MD, MSc, FAWM, FACS*
Kyle Schmitt, MD
Mary Stuever, MD
Michael Gooseman, MEd, MEBCTS, FRCS (C/Th)
Nicole L. Werner, MD, MS, FACS
Peter A. Cole, MD
Thomas W. White, MD, FACS, CNSC

Membership Committee

Bennett Berning, MD
Carrie L. Valdez, MD, FACS
Cecelia Benz, MD
George Philip, MD, PhD
Gregory R. Semon, DO, FACS, FACOS
Jennifer A. Calandra, NP-C
Jeremy Hsu, MBBS (Hons), FACS, FRACS
John M. Green, MD, FACS
Mark A. Kryskow, DO*
Patrick Greiffenstein, MD, FACS

Database Committee

Andrew R. Doben, MD, FACS
Christopher Janowak, MD, FACS*
Jonathan Jesneck, PhD
Jonne Prins, MD
Mathieu Wijffels, MD, PhD
Michelle Woodfall, MS, CNS, CEN, CCRN
Phillip Antippa, MBBS, FRACS
T. Russell Hill, PA-C

Patient Outreach Committee

Amanda Waite, CRNP
Andrew J. Kamien, MD
Essa Alghunaim, MD
Jessica Batton, DPT
Kaitlin Ritter, MD
Melissa Webb, B.Physio, M.Hlth Sci*
Scott C Gardner, MMSc, PA-C
T. Russell Hill, PA-C
Yu Hui Yang, MD

Nominations Committee

Andrew R. Doben, MD, FACS
Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM*
Gena Brawley, ACNP
Joseph D. Forrester, MD, MSc, FAWM, FACS
Thomas W. White, MD, FACS, CNSC
Zachary M. Bauman, DO, MHA, FACOS, FACS

Ethics Advisory Committee

Babak Sarani, MD
Jordan Kirsch, DO
Joseph D. Forrester, MD, MSc, FAWM, FACS
Thomas W. White, MD, FACS, CNSC

Development Committee

Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM
Bradley Thomas, MD, FACS*
Dale Butler, MD, MBA, FACS
Ronald I. Gross, MD, FACS
Timothy H. Pohlman, MD, FACS
William B. DeVoe, MD, FACS
Zachary D. Warriner, MD, FACS

Publications Committee

Bhavik Patel, MBBS, MS (General Surgery), M.Phil(Research), FRACS, FACS
Christopher W. Towe, MD
Daniel Ricaurte, MD, FACS
Essa Alghunaim, MD
Jason Kurle, DO
John S. Mayberry, MD, FACS
Joseph S. Fernandez-Moure, MD, MS
Muhammad Saad Choudhry, MD
Susan Kartiko, MD, PhD, FACS*
Thomas J. Martin, MD

Research Committee

Alexander Colonna, MD, MSCI, FACS
Amory De Roulet, MD, MPH
Evert A. Eriksson, MD, FACS
Frank Z. Zhao, MD, FACS
Hason Khan, MS
Jeff Choi, MD, MSc
Jonathan Nguyen, DO
Jordan M. Kirsch, DO
Mathieu M.E. Wijffels, MD, PhD*
Sarah D. Majercik, MD, MBA, FACS
Tareq Kheirbek, MD, ScM, FACS

Infrastructure Committee

Fredric M. Pieracci, MD, MPH, FACS*
Kathryn G. Kuttler, PhD
Ledford Powell, MD
Shawn Crowley, MSN, NPD-BC, TCRN, CEN, NRP
Tung Nguyen, MBA
Zachary D. Warriner, MD, FACS

*denotes committee chair for all committees