Officers
Kenji Inaba, MD, FACS
President
Southern California University
Farin Amersi, MD, FACS
President-elect
Cedars-Sinai
Brian Smith, MD, FACS
Vice President
University of California, Irvine
Sharon Lum, MD, FACS
Secretary-Treasurer
Loma Linda University
Melinda Maggard Gibbons, MD, FACS (2019-2022)
Recorder
University of California, Los Angeles
Board of Directors
Gabriel Akopian, MD, FACS
Huntington Hospital
Joe Carmichael, MD, FACS
Univ of California, Irvine, Medical Center
Namir Katkhouda, MD, FACS
University of Southern California
Dennis Y. Kim, MD, FACS
UCLA – Harbor
Lydia Lam, MD, FACS
University of Southern California
Junko Ozao-Choy, MD, FACS
UCLA – Harbor
Javier Romero, MD, FACS
Ventura Community Memorial Health System
Areti Tillou, MD, FACS
University of California, Los Angeles
Karen Woo, MD, FACS
University of California, Los Angeles
Past Presidents
J. Craig Collins, MD, FACS
Immediate Past President
Kaiser Permanente
Ninh Nguyen, MD, FACS
Past President
University of California, Irvine, Medical Center
Vincent Rowe, MD, FACS
Past President
University of Southern California
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
Maheswari Senthil, MD, FACS
Program Chair
University of California, Irvine
Dorna Jafari, MD, FACS
Associate Program Chair
Univ of California, Irvine, Medical Center
Daniel Shouhed, MD, FACS
Assistant Program Chair
Cedars-Sinai
National Governors-at-Large
Farin Amersi, 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
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
Kulmeet Sandhu, MD, FACS
University of Southern California
Young Surgeons Representatives
Howard Jen, MD, FACS
University of California, Los Angeles
Louise Yeung, MD, FACS
Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles