International Committee

Mission

The International Committee of the Consortium of American College of Surgeons Accredited Education Institutes (ACS-AEI) serves to breakdown the silos among the different AEIs across the globe.

In this direction, it focuses on establishing an active and meaningful forum of participating international AEIs to:

Identify and catalogue the existing barriers, inequalities, as well as their individual characteristics, needs, and practices
Perform SWOT analyses and communicate the results back to USA counterparts to enhance the collective power of the Consortium
Collaborate with the other ACS-AEI committees in order to effectively facilitate implementation of uniform curricula; and to assess, develop, and implement multi-institutional research programs
Promote the ACS-AEI vision in other countries and institutions wishing to share our common goals.

Chair

Lars Enochsson, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Umeå University

Vice-Chair

Andrea Moglia, PhD

EndoCAS, University of Pisa

Members

Omer Burak Argun, MD, Consultant

Scientific Director (Psychomotor), AGEP, Associate Professor of Urology, Department of Urology and Robotic Urologic Surgery Program, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

James M. Cooke, MD, Consultant

Executive Director, Clinical Simulation Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Evangelos Georgiou, MD, PhD

Professor and Institute Director, Medical Physics Lab-Simulation Center (MPLSC) Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Mariano E. Giménez, MD, PhD, FSIR

Professor of Surgery, “Taquini” Chair of General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chair of Excellence in Percutaneous Surgery, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Strasbourg, France and Scientific Director of Percutaneous Surgery, IHU-IRCAD. Strasbourg, France and Institute of Image-Guided Surgery, Strasbourg, France

Davide Lomanto, MD, PhD, FAMS (Surg), FRCS Edin (Hon), Consultant

Professor of Surgery and Director, Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre (MISC, Director, Khoo Teck Puat Advanced Surgery Training Centre (ASTC), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Blagoi Marinov, MD, PhD

Professor and Institute Director, Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC) at Research Institute of Medical University of Plovdiv, Chair of Bulgarian Society of Simulation Medicine, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Asit Misra MD, MSMEd, CHSE, Consultant

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery (Division of Emergency Medicine), Assistant Director, Prehospital and Emergency Training Division of The Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education (GCSIMEd), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Luca Morelli, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgical Director of the ACS Accredited Educational Institute EndoCAS, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Yasser A. Noureldin, MD, MSc (Urol), PhD (Urol), Consultant

Associate Professor of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Egypt, Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgeon, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Former Deputy Academic Director for Education & Students Affairs, Benha University (Obour Campus), Benha, Egypt

Homero Rivas, MD, MBA, FACS, FASMBS, DABOM

Professor of Surgery, Associate Dean of Innovation and the Future Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE Lisa Satterthwaite, RPN, ORT Senior Consultant, University of Toronto Surgical Skills & SimSinai Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lisa Satterthwaite, RPN, ORT Senior Consultant

Staff

Amy Johnson, MS
Kathleen A. Johnson, EdM