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Executive Directors

Current Executive Board

EXECUTIVE BOARD(2023-2025)

 PRESIDENT
Gebhard Wagener, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Columbia University Medical Center

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Tetsuro Sakai MD, PhD, MHA, FASA
Professor  and Chair

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

    PAST PRESIDENT
M. Susan Mandell MD, PhD
Professorof Anesthesiology
University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Center

 

     FOUNDING PRESIDENT
Ernesto Pretto, Jr., MD
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

   PRESDIENT-ELECT
Lorenzo De Marchi, MD
Professor of Clinical Anesthesia

Director of Transplant Anesthesia
MedStar-Georgetown University Hospital

 

SECRETARY

Jiapeng Huang MD, PhD, FASA, FASE
Professor & Vice Chairman

Medical Director of Operating Rooms

Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine

University of Louisville

 

TREASURER

Ranjit Deshpande, MD

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

Director

Transplant Anesthesiology

Yale-New Haven Hospital 

 

 

EXECUTIVE COUNCILORS

Richa Dhawan, MD

(2024-2026)

Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care
The University of Chicago

 

Michael D. Kaufman, MD

(2024-2026)

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

 

Raymond M. Planinsic, MD, FASA

(2023-2025)

Professor

Director, Transplant Anesthesiology and Transplant QI

Director, Hepatic Transplantation Anesthesiology Fellowship Program

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC

 

Michael Ander, MD, FASA

(2023-2025)

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Medical Director of Perioperative Services

Director of Liver Transplant Anesthesia

Loyola University Medical Center

 

IMMEDIATE PAST COUNCILORS

Adrian Hendrickse, BM, MMEd, MAcadMEd, FRCA

(2020 – 2022; reelected – 2024)

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Fellowship Program Director, Liver Transplant Anesthesiology
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

 

Sathish S. Kumar, MD

(2022 – 2024)

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

University of Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE BOARD (2023-2025)

   
President Gebhard Wagener (2023-2025) Wagener, Gebhard gw72@cumc.columbia.edu
Immediate past president Tetsuro Sakai (2023-2025) Tetsuro Sakai sakait@upmc.edu
Past President M. Susan Mandell   mercedes mandell mercedes.mandell@gmail.com
Founding president Ernesto Pretto, Jr.   Pretto, Ernesto A EPretto@med.miami.edu
President-elect Lorenzo De Marchi (2023-2025) Lorenzo De Marchi demarchilorenzo@yahoo.com
Secretary Jiapeng Huang (2023-2025) Huang, Jiapeng jiapeng.huang@louisville.edu
Treasurer Ranjit Deshpande (2023-2025)  
       
Executive council      
  Richa Dhawan (2024-2026) Richa Dhawan rdhawan@uchicagomedicine.org
  Michael D. Kaufman (2024-2026) Michael Kaufman michael.kaufman@lahey.org
  Raymond Planinsic (2023-2025) Planinsic, Raymond Planinsicrm@anes.upmc.edu
  Michael Ander (2023-2025) Michael R. Ander MIANDER@lumc.edu
       
Immediate Past Council      
  Adrian Hendrickse, MD (2022-2024 Adrian Hendrickse ADRIAN.HENDRICKSE@cuanschutz.edu 
  Sathish S. Kumar, MD  (2024-2024) Sathish S. Kumar ssathish@med.umich.edu

 

Executive Board 2020-2021

EXECUTIVE BOARD 2020-2021

 

PRESIDENT
M. Susan Mandell MD, PhD
Professorof Anesthesiology
University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Center

 

PRESIDENT-ELECT
Tetsuro Sakai MD, PhD, MHA, FASA
Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Professor of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

 

PAST PRESIDENT
Ernesto Pretto MD
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Mangement
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

 


SECRETARY
Gebhard Wagener MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Columbia University Medical Center

 

TREASURER
Lorenzo De Marchi MD
Professor of Clinical Anesthesia
Director of Transplant Anesthesia
MedStar-Georgetown University Hospital

 

EXECUTIVE COUNCILORS

Jiapeng Huang MD, PhD, FASA, FASE
Professor & Vice Chairman
Medical Director of Operating Rooms
Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

 

Kathirvel Subramaniam MD, MPH, FASE
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSOM)
Staff Cardiac Anesthesiologist
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

 

Adrian Hendrickse, BM, PgDipMEd, MAcadMEd, FRCA
Associate Professor
University of Colorado-Denver

 

Ranjit Deshpande MBBS
Assistant Professor and
Director of Liver Transplant Anesthesiology
Yale-New Haven Hospital

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