Officers
Brian Smith, MD, FACS
President
University of California, Irvine
Sharon Lum, MD, FACS
President-elect
Loma Linda University
Areti Tillou, MD, FACS
Vice President
UCLA
Maheswari Senthil, MD, FACS
Secretary-Treasurer
University of California, Irvine
Lydia Lam, MD, FACS (2021-2024)
Recorder
University of Southern California
Karen Woo, MD, FACS (2023-2025)
Recorder
UCLA
Board of Directors
Joe Carmichael, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine
Anna Leung, MD, FACS
Kaiser Permanente
Melinda Maggard Gibbons, MD, FACS
University of California, Los Angeles
Kazuhide MatSushima, MD, FACS
University of Southern California
Jeffry Nahmias, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine
Junko Ozao-Choy, MD, FACS
Harbor-UCLA
Javier Romero, MD, FACS
Community Memorial Health System Ventura
Naveenraj Solomon, MD, FACS
Loma Linda University
Alicia Terando, MD, FACS
Cedars-Sinai
Past Presidents
Farin Amersi, MD, FACS
Immediate Past President
Cedars-Sinai
Kenji Inaba, MD, FACS
Past President
University of Southern California
J. Craig Collins, MD, FACS
Past President
Private Practice
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
Peyman Benharash, MD, FACS
Program Chair
UCLA
Daniel Shouhed, MD, FACS
Associate Program Chair
Private Practice
Alexandra Gangi, MD, FACS
Assistant Program Chair
Cedars-Sinai
National Governors-at-Large
Rodrigo Alban, MD
Cedars-Sinai
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
Maheswari Senthil, MD
University of California, Irvine
Advocacy Committee
Sigrid Burruss, MD
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
Community Memorial Health System Ventura
Committee on Women in Surgery
Claudia Emami, MD, FACS
Private Practice
Young Surgeons Representatives
Galinos Barmparas, MD, FACS
Cedars-Sinai
Morgan Schellenberg, MD, FACS
University of Southern California