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About the Research Foundation

Research Foundation Board of Trustees

The Research Foundation Board of Trustees supervises, controls and directs the business and affairs of the Foundation. It determines its policies and actively promotes its purpose and the mission to support research and educaitonal programs. The Research Foundation consists of a 13 member Board of Trustees and three committees.

Ronald Bleday, MD, President
Elizabeth Collens Wick, MD, Vice President
Scott Arthur Strong, MD, Past President
Harry Troy Papaconstantinou, MD, Secretary
Sonia L. Ramamoorthy, MD, Treasurer
Julie Crawford
Fergal John Fleming, MD
Phuong Gallagher
Tracy Lynn Hull, MD
Neil H. Hyman, MD
Arden Marie Morris, MD
Thomas Edward Read, MD
Rocco Ricciardi, MD
Larissa K F Temple, MD

Research Foundation Committees

The committees support and further the mission of the Research Foundation by implementing the strategic goals and objectives. The Research Committtee is responsible for reviewing the scientific merit of grant applications for the Research Foundation. The Young Researchers Committee focuses on the selection of a surgeon who has met the criteria for the Mentor Award, to develop the Research Forum at the ASCRS Annual Meeting which highlights developing areas of research that have clinical relevance for the care of patients with colorectal diseases, and to choose a winner of the best “Works in Progress” at the Research Forum. Finally, the Fundraising Assistance Committee is a group of surgeons and grateful patients, dedicated to the creation of novel funding resources to benefit the ASCRS Research Foundation.

RF Research Committee

Fergal John Fleming, MD, Chair
Jesse Joshua Smith, MD, PhD, FACS, Vice Chair
Evie Harvell Carchman, MD
Joseph Christopher Carmichael, MD
Ahmed Sami Chadi, MD
Giovanna Da Silva, MD
Karin Marie Hardiman, MD, PhD
Dana Michelle Hayden, MD
Jennifer Erin Hrabe, MD
Gregory D. Kennedy, MD, PhD
Amy Lee Lightner, MD
Anne Yi-Jiun Lin, MD
Kellie Leanne Mathis, MD
Evangelos Messaris, MD, PhD
Jonathan B. Mitchem, MD
Scott Ellis Regenbogen, MD, MPH
Campbell Stuart Roxburgh, MD
Marcia McGory Russell, MD
Virginia Oliva Shaffer, MD
Benjamin Daniel Shogan, MD
Konstantin Umanskiy, MD
Karen Nersissian Zaghiyan, MD

RF Young Researchers Committee

Karen Nersissian Zaghiyan, MD, Chair
Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, Vice Chair
Raul Martin Bosio, MD
Lisa Marie Cannon, MD
Anthony De Buck Van Overstraeten, MD
Anne Chin Fabrizio, MD
Russell Ware Farmer, MD
Aakash Hasmukh Gajjar, MD
Emily Huang, MD, MEd
Mehraneh Dorna Jafari, MD
Deborah Susan Keller, MS, MD
Erin M. King-Mullins, MD
David A. Kleiman, MD
Nicole Elizabeth Lopez, MD
Ian Matthew Paquette, MD
Sunil V. Patel, MD
Radhika K. Smith, MD
Emily Steinhagen, MD
Trevor Wood, MD