Officers
Farin Amersi, MD, FACS
President
Cedars-Sinai
Brian Smith, MD, FACS
President-elect
University of California, Irvine
Sharon Lum, MD, FACS
Vice President
Loma Linda University
Areti Tillou, MD, FACS
Secretary-Treasurer
UCLA
Lydia Lam, MD, FACS (2021-2024)
Recorder
University of Southern California
Board of Directors
Joe Carmichael, MD, FACS
Univ of California, Irvine, Medical Center
Anna Leung, MD, FACS
Kaiser Permanente
Melinda Maggard Gibbons, MD, FACS
University of California, Los Angeles
Kazuhide Matushima, MD, FACS
USC
Jeffry Nahmias, MD, FACS
UC Irvine
Junko Ozao-Choy, MD, FACS
UCLA – Harbor
Javier Romero, MD, FACS
Ventura Community Memorial Health System
Naveenraj Solomon, MD, FACS
Loma Linda
Karen Woo, MD, FACS
University of California, Los Angeles
Past Presidents
Kenji Inaba, MD, FACS
Immediate Past President
Southern California University
J. Craig Collins, MD, FACS
Past President
Kaiser Permanente
Ninh Nguyen, MD, FACS
Past President
University of California, Irvine, Medical Center
Administrative Offices
2512 Artesia Blvd, Ste 200
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
Phone: (310) 379-8261
Fax: (310) 379-8283
Email: info@socalsurgeons.org
Committees, Governors, & Chairs
Program Committee
Mehraneh Dorna Jafari, MD, FACS
Program Chair
University of California, Irvine Medical Center
Peyman Benharash, MD, FACS
Associate Program Chair
UCLA
Daniel Shouhed, MD, FACS
Assistant Program Chair
Cedars-Sinai
National Governors-at-Large
Rodrigo Alban, MD
Cedars-Sinai
Ravin Kumar, MD
Harbor-UCLA
Sharon Lum, MD
Loma Linda University
Melinda Maggard Gibbons, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Yoseph Nasseri, MD
Cedars-Sinai
Beverley Petrie, MD
Harbor-UCLA
Brant Putnam, MD
Harbor-UCLA
Brian Smith, MD
University of California, Irvine
Advocacy Committee
Sharon Lum, MD FACS
Loma Linda University
State Chair, Commission on Cancer
Howard S. Kaufman, MD,FACS
Huntington Hospital
Committee on Trauma
Areti Tillou, MD, FACS
University of California, Los Angeles
Membership Committee
Shawn Steen, MD, FACS
Ventura County Medical Center
Committee on Women in Surgery
Claudia Emami, MD, FACS
Huntington Hospital
Young Surgeons Representatives
Louise Yeung, MD, FACS
Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles
Galinos Barmparas, MD, FACS
Cedars Sinai