
CommittEes
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Accessibility & Accommodations Committee
Chair
Julia Huyck, PhD
Members:
Rafael da Costa Monsanto, Md, PhD
Ariel Edward Hight, PhD
Patricia Aguiar, MA
Brandon Paul, PhD
Samantha Stiepan, PhD, AuD
Ramnarayan Ramachandran, PhD
Marina Kabirova, PhD
Christopher Cunningham, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Council Liaison:
Ronna Hertzano, MD, PhD
Awards Committee
Chair
Katie Kindt, PhD
Maria Eulalia Rubio, MD, PhD
Members:
Victoria Bajo, MD, PhD
Jainxin Bao, PhD
Wei Dong, PhD
Elizabeth Glowatzki, PhD
Hainan Land, PhD, Prof
Lina Reiss, PhD
Joel Snyder, PhD
Daniel Sun, MD
Council Liaison:
Clinician Scientist Committee
Co-Chairs
Iram Ahmad, MD
Alan Cheng, PhD
Rick Nelson, PhD
Members:
Samira Anderson, AuD, PhD
Michael Hoa, MD
Judith Kempfle, MD
Aaron Remenschneider, PM
Peter Santa Maria, MD, PhD
Zahra Sayyid, MD, PhD
Myung-Whan Suh, MD
spARO Representatives:
Samantha Davis, BS
Council Liaison: Yuri Agrawal, MD
Communications Committee
Chair
Michael Bowl, DPhil
Members:
Kelsey Anbuhl, BS, PhD
Francisco Barros Becker, PhD
James Dias, PhD
Nicolas Grillet, PhD
Sujata Pandey, M Sc
Ruben Stepanyan, PhD
Barbara Vona, PhD
Dietmar M. Wohlbauer, PhD
Marisa L. Zallocchi, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Council Liaison: Mike Bowl, DPhil
Diversity & Minority Affairs Committee
Co-Chairs
Jeffrey Cheng, PhD
Avril Genene Holt, PhD
Tejbeer Kaur, PhD
Members:
Reza Amanipour, PhD
Tim Balmer, PhD
Agudemo Borjigin, PhD, MS, BS
Yuan He, PhD
Michele Insanally, PhD
Joseph Luberman, PhD
Carolyn McClaskey, PhD
Melissa McGovern, PhD
Anahita Mehta, PhD
Ilkem Segvili, M Sc, B Sc, PhD
Marina Silveira, PhD
Jarnail Singh, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Council Liaison: Radha Kalluri, PhD
Education Committee
Chair
Cathy Sung, PhD
Members:
Jason Brant, MD
Andreas Eckhard, MD
Sumana Ghosh, PhD
Judith Kempfle, MD
Peter Santa Maria, MD, PhD
Tong Shan, PhD
Jarnail Singh, PhD
Kirupa Suthakar, PhD
Pankaj Bhatia, PhD
Steve Lomber, PhD
Takushi Miyoshi, MD, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Afagh Farhadi, PhD
Bryce Hambach, BS
Council Liaison: Sunil Puria, PhD
Finance & Investment Committee
Chair
Amanda Lauer, PhD
Members:
Kevin Booth, PhD
Alice Burghard, PhD
Divya Chari, MD
Mathia Dietz, Prof, MD
Meghan Drummond, PhD
Jane Mondul, AuD, PhD
Zahra Sayyid, MD, PhD
Council Liaison: Anna Lysakowski, PhD
Long- Range Planning Committee
Chair
Bonnie Lau, PhD
Members:
Aynur Aliyeva, MD
Janet Cyr, PhD
Elika Fallah, PhD
Ksenia Gnedeva, PhD
Bjorn Herrman, PhD
Keiko Hirose, MD
Larry Hoffman, PhD
Emma Holmes, PhD
Nicole Jiam, MD
Patrick Kanold, PhD
Matthew Kelley, PhD
Malinda McPherson, Other
Hideko Nakajima, MD, PhD
Edwin Rubel, PhD
Su-Hua Sha, MD
Jonathan Siegel, PhD
Haruna Suzuki-Kerr, PhD
Tal Teitz, PhD
Catherine Weisz, PhD
Ross Williamson, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Council Liaison: Avril Genene Holt, PhD
Membership Committee
Co-Chairs
Maria Chait, B Sc, PhD, Prof
Members:
Amel Bahloul, PhD
Jason Brant, MD
Steven Eliades, MD, PhD
Artur Indzhykulian, MD, PhD
Samson Jamesdaniel, PhD
Jennifer Krizman, PhD
Rose Rizzi, BS
Marisa Zallocchi, PhD
Hiroyuki Kato, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Council Liaison:
Ronna Hertzano, MD, Phd
Travel Awards Committee
Chair
Catalina Velez- Ortega, PhD
Members:
Kevin Booth, PhD
George William S Burwood, PhD
James Dewey, PhD
Choongheon Lee, PhD
Nima Maftoon, PhD
Zoe F Mann, PhD
Rahul Mittal, PhD
David Raible, PhD
Soroush G Sadeghi, PhD
Isabelle Schrauwen, PhD
Hong-Bo Zhao, MD, PhD
Jing Zheng, PhD
Yang-Soo Yoon, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Council Liaison:
Katharine Fernandez, PhD
Program Committee
Chair
Program Committee Chair: Jeff Holt, PhD
Incoming Program Committee Chair: Sonja Pyott, PhD
Outgoing Program Committee Chair: Brandon Cox, PhD
Members:
Victoria Bajo, MD, PhD
Karen Banai, PhD
Divya Chari, MD
Michael Deans, PhD
Angelika Doetzlhafer, PhD
Aziz El-Amraoui, PhD
Steven Eliades, MD, PhD
Katharine Fernandez, AuD, PhD
Artur Indzhykulian, MD, PhD
Tejbeer Kaur, PhD
Zsuzsanna Kocsis, PhD
Jennifer Krizman, PhD
Dhasakumar Navaratnam, MD, PhD
Suhrud Rajguru, PhD
Claus-Peter Richter, Prof, Dr
Soroush Sadeghi, PhD
Regie Lyn Santos-Cortez, MD, PhD
Eliot Shearer, MD, PhD
Lavinia Sheets, PhD
Daniel Sun, PhD
Ruili Xie, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Council Liaison: Jeff Holt, PhD