Name with degree(s): Kyota Fukazawa, MD, PhD
Institution: University of Washington
Academic appointment: Professor
Departmental role:
Director of Transplant anesthesia,
Director of Transplant Anesthesia Fellowship Program
Specialty: Abdominal Transplant
Years of SATA membership: Founding member, member since 2012
Role(s) in SATA:
SATA West Coast Annual Regional Meeting: Senior Chair, 2018~
SATA Fellowship Committee 2020~
SATA Practice Management Working Group (SATA) 2022~
SATA Federation (International relation) Committee 2018~
SATA Abdominal transplant task force Committee 2018~
SATA Board of Directors 2016~
SATA Founding member 2012~
The reason for seeking the SATA Council position:
Having played a progressively more involved roll in SATA from joining in 2012 to being the senior chair of SATA west coast meeting this year, I am confident in taking the next step to expand my leadership skills. During serving multiple committees in my own institution, ILTS and SATA, I learned how important it is to listen. I want to be a listener to understand the issues of peers and work to put their ideas into action.
Name: Uzung Yoon M.D., M.P.H.
Institution: Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
111s 11th St G8290, Philadelphia, PA 19107
c: 215-910-0557, w: 215-955-6161
uzung.yoon@jefferson.edu
Academic appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Departmental role: Co-Director, Liver transplantation Anesthesiology
Program Director, Liver Transplantation Anesthesiology Fellowship
Director, Anesthesia Coagulation Laboratory
SATA membership: 4 years
Role: Active member
Specialty: I am currently a liver transplantation anesthesiologist at Thomas Jefferson University
Hospital in Philadelphia.
The reason for seeking the SATA Council position:
The SATA has been invaluable in my growth and perspective as a transplant anesthesiologist. I attended numerous SATA meetings from New York down to Washington DC. I connected with colleagues, had intellectual discussions, and presented at recent meetings. I would like to become more actively involved in directly contributing to the organization. I also have seen SATA growing rapidly in the past few years and have big ambitions to promote SATA that more transplant anesthesiologist could benefit from the society.
From prior committee experience, I have learned that the most effective way to progress our field is through being active, and collaborating across institutions. Thank you for your consideration of my application. If any additional information is needed, I can be reached at the following email address: uzyoon@gmail.com or uzung.yoon@jefferson.edu.
Name with degree: Sathish S Kumar, MBBS
Institution: University of Michigan
Academic appointment: Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Departmental role: Director of transplantation anesthesia
Specialty: Abdominal Transplant Anesthesia
Years of SATA membership: 3 years
Role(s) in SATA: committee’s on Q&S, Senor chair for Midwest regional meetings and organized past two meetings, Co-chair- TEE for abdominal transplantation, Committee on LDLT.
The reason for seeking the SATA Council position:
The reason for seeking the SATA Council position: I am passionate about clinical care of patients undergoing transplantation and my vision is to promote and enhance the care of solid organ transplantation including the care of living donor transplantation. My ongoing role with SATA in achieving this mission has been instrumental in getting younger generation of anesthesiologist involved in transplantation and work with SATA to further advance it. Given my role as a leader in my department, I strongly believe that I can contribute and help advance our society by being a member of the council. I look forward to that opportunity and working with a group of like minded individual to achieve that common goal. I feel I have a lot more to contribute to advance our society nationally and internationally to provide the best and safe clinical care of these patients. I look forward to working with SATA in advancing and promoting research in the area of transplantation.
Name: Raymond M. Planinsic, MD, FASA
Academic appointment: Professor of Anesthesiology
Departmental role: Chief of Transplantation Anesthesiology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center / Perioperative Medicine Director of Transplantation Anesthesiology Fellowship
Institution: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Specialty: Abdominal Transplant Anesthesia
Years of SATA membership: Member of SATA since inception, one of it’s Founding Members
Roles in SATA:
Member Bylaws Committee, Member Fellowship Committee, Member SATA Practice
Management Working Group, Course Director of First SATA Review Course, Invited
speaker/panel member multiple SATA meetings
Reason for seating SATA Council position:
I am seeking appointment to the SATA Council at Large position to help continue to serve and improve SATA’s presence, role and influence in advancing the interests of its membership and the specialty of transplant anesthesia. SATA is in a unique position of educating the transplant field of the importance and role of transplant anesthesiologist. With continued involvement in the field, SATA can help set standards of practice, improve training of specialists, provide a forum/stage to voice the concerns of membership on how to improve patient care and increase the recognition of our field.
Name with degree: Adrian Hendrickse BM MMEd MAcadMEd FRCA
Institution: University of Colorado
Academic appointment: Associate Professor
Departmental role: Medical Director Abdominal Organ Transplant Anesthesia Team. Program Director Liver Transplant Anesthesiology Fellowship
Specialty: General Anesthesia, Regional Anesthesiology and Abdominal Organ Transplant Anesthesiology
Years of SATA membership: 5 years SATA membership
Roles in SATA: Chair of Quality and Standards Committee from 2019 to present Member of the Byelaws Committee from 2022
Reason for seating SATA Council position:
I believe that our society needs to offer a broader offering in education to its membership. I want to develop educational material that will engage new and interested learners in the field of transplant anesthesiology whilst harnessing the knowledge and experience of our existing members from across the country. Collaboration within our society should make this enterprise something worth pursuing and being a council member will enable me to leverage the support needed.