Surgical and Perioperative Care Interest Group Advisory Committee

Alex Sox-Harris, Ph.D., M.S., is a VA Senior Research Career Scientist and Professor in the Stanford Department of Surgery. Read Bio

Marc Philip Pimentel, M.D., M.P.H., C.P.P.S., is Medical Director in the Department of Quality and Safety and Associate Clinical Director for Quality in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. Read Bio

Zhi Ven Fong, M.D., M.P.H. is the incoming Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center's Complex and General Surgery Oncology fellow, as well as a general surgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. Read Bio

Dr. Casey J Allen specializes in advanced surgery for complex gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and liver tumors. Read Bio

Salva Balbale, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology & Hepatology), Surgery, and Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Read Bio

Rithika is a third-year medical student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City looking to specialize in surgery. Read Bio

Julia Harris, M.S.N., CRNA, FAANA is a doctoral student at UCSF and owner of Vaporworks Nursing Anesthesia, Inc., a CRNA opioid free anesthesia practice. Read Bio

Molly Jarman, PhD, MPH is an injury epidemiologist and health services researcher at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health. Read Bio

Dr Maganty is a urologic oncology fellow at the university of Michigan. Read Bio

Dr. Karthik Raghunathan is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Duke University School of Medicine. Read Bio

Alaa Sada, M.D., is a general surgery resident at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Read Bio

Connie Shao is a general surgery resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Read Bio

Brocha Stern is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Population Health Science and Policy and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Read Bio

Anne Stey, M.D., M.Sc., is passionate about addressing inefficiencies to improve healthcare quality and cost for all patients. Read Bio

Chi Zhang is a general surgery resident at the Mayo Clinic, an assistant professor in health services research at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and a former Kern Center Outcomes Research Fellow. Read Bio