Board of Directors

Officers

Areti Tillou, MD, FACS
President
UCLA

Lydia Lam, MD, FACS
President-elect
University of Southern California

Maheswari Senthil, MD, FACS
Vice President
University of California, Irvine

Javier Romero, MD, FACS
Secretary-Treasurer
Community Memorial Health System Ventura

Angela Neville, MD, FACS (2024-2026)
Recorder
Harbor-UCLA

Peyman Benharash, MD, FACS (2025-2027)
Recorder
UCLA

Board of Directors

Joe Carmichael, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine

Phillip Frykman, MD, FACS
Los Robles

Cristina Harnsberger, MD, FACS
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Anna Leung, MD, FACS
Kaiser Permanente

Laleh Melstrom, MD, FACS
City of Hope Medical Center

Kazuhide MatSushima, MD, FACS
University of Southern California

Jeffry Nahmias, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine

Naveenraj Solomon, MD, FACS
Loma Linda University

Alicia Terando, MD, FACS
Cedars-Sinai

Past Presidents

Sharon Lum, MD, FACS
Immediate Past President
Loma Linda University

Brian Smith, MD, FACS
Past President
University of California, Irvine

Farin Amersi, MD, FACS
Past President
Cedars-Sinai

Other Council Positions

Joyce McRae, MD
RAS Representative – Resident Member
Loma Linda University

Mallory Jebbia, MD
RAS Representative – Associate Fellow
University of California, Irvine

Committees, Governors, & Chairs 

Program Committee

Alexandra Gangi, MD, FACS
Program Chair
Cedars-Sinai

Maki Yamamoto, MD, FACS
Associate Program Chair
University of California, Irvine

Junko Ozao-Choy, MD, FACS
Assistant Program Chair
Harbor-UCLA

National Governors-at-Large

Galinos Barmparas, MD, FACS
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Amir Berjis, MD, FACS
Kern Medical Center

Sebastiano Cassaro, MD, FACS
Kaweah Health

Jeffry Nahmias, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine

Brant Putnam, MD, FACS
Harbor-UCLA

Maheswari Senthil, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine

Mediget Teshome, MD, FACS
UCLA

Advocacy Committee 

Sigrid Burruss, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine

State Chair, Commission on Cancer

Shawn Steen, MD, FACS
Community Memorial Health System Ventura

Committee on Trauma

Matt Martin, MD, FACS
University of Southern California

Membership Committee

Shawn Steen, MD, FACS
Community Memorial Health System Ventura

Committee on Women in Surgery

Halley Vora, MD, FACS
Loma Linda

Young Surgeons Representatives

Jessica Keeley, MD, FACS
Harbor-UCLA

Karim Jreije, DO, FACS
Anacapa