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 specified in "term ends".
Members
Samuel Wade Ross, MD, MPH, Chair- Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/14/2028
Jonathan P. Meizoso, MD, MSPH, Committee Vice Chair- Ryder Trauma Center / University of Miami in Miami, FL
- Term ends 01/14/2028
Alexandra Briggs, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH
- Term ends 01/14/2028
Rachel L. Choron, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Kyle W. Cunningham, MD, MPH, FACS, Committee Member- Atrium Health - Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC
- Term ends 01/14/2028
Michael K Dalton, MD, MPH, Committee Member- University of Colorado in Aurora, CO
- Term ends 01/14/2028
James A. Flippin, MD FACS, Committee Member- University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, IL
- Term ends 01/14/2028
Chad Hall, MD, Committee Member- Baylor Scott & White in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Melike N. Harfouche, MD, Committee Member- University of Maryland School of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/14/2028
Jennifer L. Hartwell, MD, FACS, Committee Member- University of Kansas in Kansas City, KS
- Term ends 01/13/2029
D'Andrea K. Joseph, MD, FACS, FCCM, Committee Member- Mount Sinai at Elmhurst in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Catherine L McKnight, MD, Committee Member- University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, TN
- Term ends 01/15/2028
Andrew J. Medvecz, MD, MPH, Committee Member- Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Alan Murdock, MD, Committee Member- Allegheny General Hospital in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Susannah Nicholson, MD, Committee Member- UTHSCSA in San Antonio, TX
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Nimitt J. Patel, MD, Committee Member- MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, OH
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Zaffer Qasim, MBBS, FRCEM, Committee Member- Perelman School of Medicine - Univ of Pennsylvania in ,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
James T. Ross, MD, FACS, Committee Member- University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve in Cleveland,
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Melissa H. Warta, MD, FACS, Committee Member- St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson, NJ
- Term ends 01/13/2029
James P. Byrne, MD, PhD, Ex Officio- Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, BC
- Term ends 01/13/2029
Christina Colosimo, DO, MS, Ex Officio- Loma Linda University Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/14/2028
Hee Soo Jung, MD, FACS, Ex Officio- University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI
- Term ends 01/13/2029