
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:
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:
Communications Committee
Chair
Michael Bowl, DPhil
Members:
Francisco Barros Becker, PhD
Nicolas Grillet, PhD
Hainan Lang, PhD, Prof
Ruben Stepanyan, PhD
Dietmar M. Wohlbauer, PhD
Marisa L. Zallocchi, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Kelsey Anbuhl, BS, PhD
Ariel Edward Hight, PhD
Jaiyue Liu, BS
Sara Momtaz Bokharaei, PhD
Sree Varshini Murali, M Sc
Council Liaison: Mike Bowl, DPhil
Diversity & Minority Affairs Committee
Co-Chairs
Tejbeer Kaur, PhD
Jeffrey Cheng, PhD
Members:
Reza Amanipour, PhD
Karina Cramer, PhD
Michele Insanally, PhD
Melissa McGovern, PhD
Anahita Mehta, PhD
Ilkem Segvili, M Sc, B Sc, PhD
Marina Silveira, PhD
Jarnail Singh, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Agudemu Borjigin, PhD
Matheus Macedo-Lima, PhD
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:
Finance & Investment Committee
Chair
Amanda Lauer, PhD
Members:
Kevin Booth, PhD
Alice Burghard, PhD
Divya Chari, MD
Zahra Sayyid, PhD
Council Liaison: Anna Lysakowski, PhD
Long- Range Planning Committee
Chair
Bonnie Lau, PhD
Members:
Seba Ausili, PhD
Janet Cyr, PhD
Elika Fallah, PhD
Ksenia Gnedeva, PhD
Bjorn Herrman, PhD
Keiko Hirose, MD
Larry Hoffman, PhD
Emma Holmes, PhD
Nicole Jiam, MD
Hideko Nakajima, MD, PhD
Edwin Rubel, PhD
Jonathan Siegel, PhD
Kirupa Suthakar, PhD
Haruna Suzuki-Kerr, PhD
Tal Teitz, PhD
Catherine Weisz, PhD
Ross Williamson, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Elie Huez, BS
Nathaniel Nowak, PhD
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
Marisa Zallocchi, PhD
Hiroyuki Kato, PhD
spARO Representatives:
Rose Rizzi, BS
Council Liaison:
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:
Program Committee
Chair
Program Committee Chair: Jeff Holt, PhD
Incoming Program Committee Chair: Sonja Pyott, PhD
Outgoing Program Committee Chair: Brandon Cox, PhD
Members:
Aynur Aliyeva, MD
Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh, PhD
Hela Azaiez, PhD
Karen Banai, PhD
Jeffery Holt, PhD
Divya Chari, MD
Dhasakumar Navaratnam, MD, PhD
Suhrud Rajguru, PhD
Regie Lyn Santos-Cortez, MD, PhD
Zsuzanna Kocsis, PhD
Rob Raphael, PhD
Tony Ricci, PhD
Artur Indzhykulian, MD, PhD
Clark Elliott Strimbu, PhD
George Burwood, PhD
Steven Eliades, MD, PhD
Ruili Xie, PhD
Jennifer Krizman, PhD
William Slattery, MD
Katharine Fernandez, AuD, PhD
Council Liaison: Jeff Holt, PhD