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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits
Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits
Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.
Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD, FACS, the G. Alexander Patterson, MD/Mid-America Transplant Endowed Distinguished Chair in Lung Transplantation, is vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (Missouri). In this new role, he will oversee basic science, clinical, translational, and public health sciences research programs across the Department of Surgery. Dr. Kreisel also is the surgical director of lung transplantation at Washington University Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
Vikas Dudeja, MD, FACS
Dudeja Is Chair, DEO of UI Department of Surgery
Vikas Dudeja, MD, FACS, will take over as chair and department executive officer (DEO) of the Department of Surgery at the University of Iowa (UI) Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. He will begin this new role on June 30, when he takes over from Ronald J. Weigel, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS, Medical Director for ACS Cancer Programs. An expert in pancreatic cancer and other hepatobiliary cancers, Dr. Dudeja currently serves as a professor and director of the Division of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also is president-elect of the Association for Academic Surgery. He will begin his term as president in February 2026.
Danny Chu, MD, FACS
Chu Is SUS President
Danny Chu, MD, FACS, was named president of the Society of University Surgeons (SUS), an organization that promotes excellence and leadership in academic surgery. Dr. Chu, a cardiothoracic surgeon, serves as director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Ozaki Center of Excellence and director of cardiac surgery at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Pennsylvania. Thomas K. Varghese Jr., MD, MS, MBA, FACS, from The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, previously was SUS president.
Colin A. Martin, MD, FACS
Martin Is President-Elect of SUS
Colin A. Martin, MD, FACS, is president-elect of the Society of University Surgeons (SUS). The organization supports and advances leaders in academic surgery. Dr. Martin is the Brad and Barbara Warner Endowed Professor of Surgery, chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri), and surgeon-in-chief at St. Louis Children's Hospital. His 1-year term will begin in 2026.
Joseph E. Bavaria, MD, FACS, FRCS
Bavaria Directs Vascular Institute in Philadelphia
Joseph E. Bavaria, MD, FACS, FRCS, was appointed executive director of the Bruce & Robbi Toll Heart and Vascular Institute at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and chair of the newly established Department of Cardiac Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Dr. Bavaria joined Jefferson Health in 2024.
Paula A. Ferrada, MD, FACS
Ferrada Is Surgery Chair at Inova
Paula A. Ferrada, MD, FACS, is the new chair of the Department of Surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia. She also will continue in her role as chief of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Dr. Ferrada currently serves as an ACS Governor-at-Large.
Kevin Y. Pei, MD, MHSEd, FACS
Pei Moves to NYU Langone
Kevin Y. Pei, MD, MHSEd, FACS, is a professor of surgery in the Acute Care Surgery Division and vice-chair of academic affairs and education innovation in the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone in New York City. Previously, Dr. Pei was a professor of surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He also served as vice-president and director of the General Surgery Residency Program at Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Mehra Golshan, MD, MBA, FACS
Golshan Receives Ellis Island Medal of Honor
Mehra Golshan, MD, MBA, FACS, was awarded the 2025 Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the Ellis Island Honors Society. The medal recognizes Dr. Golshan’s contributions to breast cancer treatment and research, his dedication to patient care, and his commitment to mentorship. A cancer surgeon, he is a professor of surgery at Yale School of Medicine, executive vice-chair in the Department of Surgery at Yale Medicine, and deputy chief medical officer for surgical services at the Smilow Cancer Hospital, all in New Haven, Connecticut.
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