Program and Review Committee

Vision

The Program and Review Committee of the Consortium of American College of Surgeons Accredited Education Institutes (ACS-AEI) serves to enrich the surgical simulation community by assisting AEI staff and leadership with planning and implementing the ACS Surgical Simulation Summit that takes place annually in March.

Mission

Plan and implement educational offerings at the Annual ACS Surgical Simulation Summit: An International Multi-Professional Meeting, which include panel presentations, committee workshops, and other sessions or topics of special interest to the surgical simulation community
Work closely with the Director of the Division of Education and the AEI Program staff to select topics, formats, and faculty
Oversee the evaluation of the educational content and the identification of needs for the next annual meeting
Review and select abstracts for paper and poster presentation at the meeting
Identify potential sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities

If you have questions please contact Amy Johnson, MS, AEI Coordinator, at ajohnson@facs.org or 312-202-5415.

Program Chair

Tamara L. Owens, PhD, M.Ed, CHSE

Howard University

Vice-Chair

Luis Llerena, MD, FACS

USF CAMLS

Members

Kareem R. AbdulFattah, MD

UT Southwestern Simulation Center

Yazan N. AlJamal, MB, BS

Mayo Clinic Simulation Centers

Jonathan M. Dort, MD, FACS

INOVA

Kristoffel Dumon, MD, FACS

Simulation at Penn Medicine

James V. Harmon, MD, PhD, FACS

University of Minnesota SimPORTAL

James N. Lau, MD, MHPE, FACS

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Department of Surgery

Humza Saleem, MD

Mayo Clinic Simulation Centers

Kris Siriratsivawong, MD, FACS

Showa University

Stephen F. Small, MD

University of Chicago Simulation Center

Sarah A. Jung, PhD

UW Health Clinical Simulation Program

Glen H. Tinkoff, MD, FACS

Case Western Reserve University Center for Skills and Simulation (CWRU CSS)

Boris A. Zevin, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Kingston General Hospital

Staff

Kathleen A. Johnson, EdM

Catherine Sormalis

Karrington Butler