3 www.east.org Committee appointments are made by the EAST President. A Call for Volunteers is conducted annually. Information is available on the EAST website and the call is announced via email and electronic communication. Please contact the EAST administrative offices at 312.202.5508 or by email at managementoffice@east.org if you are interested in serving. Committee Chairs and Ad Hoc Task Force Chairs Executive Committee Elliott R. Haut, MD, PhD, FACS, President A. Britton Christmas, MD, FACS, President-Elect Andrew C. Bernard, MD, FACS, Past President Jason W. Smith, MD, PhD, FACS, Treasurer Deborah M. Stein, MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM, Secretary Directors-at-Large Thomas K. Duncan, DO, FACS, Director-at-Large Paula Ferrada, MD, FACS, Director-at-Large Matthew J. Martin, MD, FACS, Director-at-Large Mayur B. Patel, MD, MPH, FACS, Director-at-Large Mark J. Seamon, MD, FACS, Director-at-Large Alison M. Wilson, MD, FACS Director-at-Large Ben L. Zarzaur, MD, MPH, FACS, Director-at-Large 2019 EAST Board of Directors Annual Scientific Assembly – Matthew J. Martin, MD, FACS Burn Surgery Ad Hoc Task Force – Joshua Carson, MD, FACS and Callie M. Thompson, MD, FACS (Vice Chair) Career Development Committee – Brad Dennis, MD, FACS Development Committee – Babak Sarani, MD, FACS and Alexander L. Eastman, MD, MPH, FACS (Vice Chair) Emergency General Surgery Committee – D. Dante Yeh, MD, FACS Equity, Quality and Inclusion in Trauma Surgery Practice Ad Hoc Task Force Tanya L. Zakrison, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS and Brian H. Williams, MD, FACS Guidelines Committee – John J. Como, MD, MPH, FACS and Nicole Fox, MD, MPH, FACS (Vice Chair) Injury Control and Violence Prevention Committee – Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, FACS Manuscript and Literature Review Committee – Mark J. Seamon, MD, FACS Membership Recruitment and Retention Committee – Paula Ferrada, MD, FACS Mentoring Committee – Jamie J. Coleman, MD, FACS Military Committee – Travis M. Polk, MD, FACS and Stephanie Streit, MD, FACS Minimally Invasive Surgery and Emerging Technologies Ad Hoc Task Force Andrea Pakula, MD, MPH, FACS Multicenter Trials Committee – Jeffry Nahmias, MD, MHPE, FACS Online Education Committee – David S. Morris, MD, FACS Quality, Safety and Outcomes Committee – Jose L. Pascual, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSC, FCCM Research-Scholarship Committee – Rachael A. Callcut, MD, MSPH, FACS Seniors Committee – Oscar D. Guillamondegui, MD, MPH, FACS