Annual Scientific Assembly Committee
The Annual Scientific Assembly Committee is responsible for the overall format and program content for the EAST Annual Scientific Assembly. The committee is responsible for reviewing, scoring and selecting clinical abstracts to be presented (oral, quick shot, and video presentations). The committee is responsible for selecting the recipients of the Raymond H. Alexander, MD Residents’ Paper Competition. In addition, the committee selects the plenary sessions, workshops, short courses, and any other special programming or sessions added to the meeting program.
The mission of the Annual Scientific Assembly Committee is to plan, design, and oversee the execution of the top academic scientific meeting for trauma and acute care surgery professionals in the world. This includes ensuring all aspects of the meeting are developed with a focus on the core tenets of the organization: advancing science, fostering relationships, and building careers. As the trauma organization that particularly focuses on development of the “young trauma surgeon/professional”, the Committee should constantly be critically evaluating, revising, and incorporating the most up to date methods and metrics for delivering high quality content and opportunities for all EAST members and non-member attendees.
The Education Division Director is the Chair of the Annual Scientific Assembly Committee.
Committee members are appointed by the President with approval by the Board of Directors. Committee member terms are three years. All terms begin in January and conclude in January in the year specificed in "term ends".
Members
Matthew J. Martin, MD, FACS, Chair- Scripps Mercy Medical Center in San Diego, CA
- Term ends 01/18/2020
Suresh K. Agarwal, Jr., MD, Committee Member- Duke University in Durham, NC
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Rachael A. Callcut, MD, MSPH, FACS, Committee Member- UCSF - San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, CA
- Term ends 01/18/2020
Shannon Marie Foster, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Reading Trauma Center, Tower Health in Reading, PA
- Term ends 01/16/2021
Vanessa P. Ho, MD, MPH, Committee Member- University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, OH
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Bellal Joseph, MD, Committee Member- University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ
- Term ends 01/18/2020
Haytham Kaafarani, MD, MPH, Committee Member- Massachusetts General Hospital in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Matthew E. Lissauer, MD, Committee Member- Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ
- Term ends 01/16/2021
Gary T. Marshall, MD, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Niels D. Martin, MD, Committee Member- University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Alicia M. Mohr, MD, Committee Member- University of Florida in Gainesville, FL
- Term ends 01/16/2021
Amy Rushing, MD, Committee Member- Ohio State University in Columbus, OH
- Term ends 01/15/2022
Cynthia Talley, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC
- Term ends 01/16/2021
Ronald B. Tesoriero, MD, Committee Member- R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, MD
- Term ends 01/18/2020
Mark J. Seamon, MD, FACS, Ex Officio- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA
- Term ends 01/18/2020
