CommittEes
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Accommodations Committee
Chair
Julia Jones Huyck, Ph.D.
Members:
Patricia V. Vasconcelos Aguiar, M.A.
Christopher L. Cunningham, Ph.D.
Ariel Edward Hight, Ph.D.
Marina Kabirova, Ph.D.
Brandon Tyler Paul, Ph.D.
Ramnarayan Ramachandran, Ph.D.
Samantha Stiepan, Au.D., Ph.D.
spARO Representatives:
Aravind Chenrayan Govindaraju, M.S., Ph.D.
Malvina S. Millet, M.S.
Council Liaison: Lisa Cunningham, Ph.D.
Awards Committee
Co-Chairs:
Katie Kindt, Ph.D.
Maria Eulalia Rubio-Valero, M.D., Ph.D.
Members:
Victoria Bajo, M.D., Ph.D.
Jianxin Bao, Ph.D., Prof.
Wei Dong, PhD
Elisabeth B Glowatzki, Prof. Dr.
Hainan Lang, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. med
Lina Reiss, PhD
Joel Snyder, Ph.D.
Daniel Sun, M.D.
Council Liaison: Alain Dabdoub, Ph.D.
Clinician Scientist Committee
Co-Chairs
Iram Ahmad, MD
Alan Cheng, PhD
Rick Nelson, PhD
Members:
Samira Anderson, Au.D., Ph.D.
Michael Hoa, MD
Judith Kempfle, MD
Aaron Kyle Remenschneider, M.D.
Peter L Santa Maria, M.D., Ph.D.
Zahra N. Sayyid, M.D., Ph.D.
Myung-Whan Suh, MD
spARO Representatives:
Shelby Ashton Payne, B.A.
Daniel Romano, M.D.
Thore Schade-Mann, M.D.
Communications Committee
Chair
Michael R Bowl, D.Phil.
Members:
Kelsey L. Anbuhl, B.S., Ph.D.
Francisco Barros-Becker, Ph.D.
James William Dias, Ph.D.
Nicolas Grillet, Ph.D.
Hainan Lang, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. med
Sujata Pandey, M.Sc.
Ruben Stepanyan, Ph.D.
Barbara Vona, Ph.D.
Dietmar M. Wohlbauer, Ph.D.
Marisa L. Zallocchi, Ph.D.
spARO Representatives:
Pankaj Bhatia, Ph.D.
Yuan He, Ph.D.
Farideh Moeinvaziri, Ph.D.
Executive Director: Kristin Johnson
Development, Mentorship, and Advancement Committee
Co-Chair:
Jeffrey Cheng, Ph.D.
Avril Genene Holt, Ph.D.
Tejbeer Kaur, Ph.D.
Members:
Reza Amanipour, Ph.D.
Timothy Balmer, Ph.D.
Agudemu Borjigin, Ph.D., M.S., B.S.
Yuan He, Ph.D.
Michele Insanally, Ph.D.
Luberson Joseph, Ph.D.
Carolyn M McClaskey, Ph.D.
Melissa McGovern, Ph.D.
Jarnail Singh, Ph.D.
spARO Representatives:
Emily Fabrizio-Stover, Ph.D., B.A.
Charanjeet Kaur, Ph.D.
Council Liaison: Radha Kalluri, Ph.D.
Education Committee
Members:
Pankaj Bhatia, Ph.D.
Jason Brant, M.D.
Andreas H. Eckhard, M.D.
Judith Kempfle, M.D.
Steve Lomber, Ph.D.
Takushi Miyoshi, M.D., Ph.D.
Peter L Santa Maria, M.D., Ph.D.
Tong Shan, Ph.D.
Jarnail Singh, Ph.D.
Cathy Yea Won Sung, Ph.D.
Kirupa Suthakar, Ph.D.
spARO Representatives:
Afagh Farhadi, Ph.D.
Bryce Hubert Hambach, B.S.
Sree Varshini Murali, M.Sc.
Mahesh Kumar Nayak, M.Sc.
Council Liaison: Sunil Puria, Ph.D.
Finance & Investment Committee
Chair
Amanda Lauer, Ph.D.
Members:
Kevin TA Booth, Ph.D.
Alice L Burghard, Ph.D.
Divya A. Chari, M.D.
Mathias Dietz, Prof. Dr.
Meghan C Drummond, Ph.D.
Jane Mondul, Au.D., Ph.D.
Zahra N. Sayyid, M.D., Ph.D.
Council Liaison: Anna Lysakowski, Ph.D.
Long- Range Planning Committee
Chair
Bonnie K. Lau, Ph.D.
Members:
Aynur Aliyeva, M.D.
Janet Cyr, Ph.D.
Elika Fallah, Ph.D.
Ksenia Gnedeva, Ph.D.
Björn Herrmann, Ph.D.
Keiko Hirose, M.D.
Larry Hoffman, Ph.D.
Emma Holmes, PhD
Nicole T. Jiam, M.D.
Patrick Kanold, Ph.D.
Matthew W Kelley, Ph.D.
Malinda Jeanette McPherson-McNato, Ph.D.
Hideko Nakajima, M.D., Ph.D.
Edwin W Rubel, Ph.D.
Su-Hua Sha, M.D.
Jonathan Siegel, Ph.D.
Haruna Suzuki-Kerr, Ph.D.
Tal Teitz, Ph.D.
Catherine Weisz, Ph.D.
Ross S Williamson, Ph.D.
spARO Representatives:
Ely Cheikh Boussaty, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Michelle Ogier, Ph.D., B.Sc.
Kaitlyn Wong, B.S., M.S.
Council Liaison: Avril Genene Holt, Ph.D.
Membership Committee
Co-Chairs
Maria Chait, B.Sc., Ph.D., Prof., Prof. Dr.
Stephen V David, Ph.D.
Members:
Amel Bahloui, Ph.D.
Jason Brant, M.D.
Steven Eliades, M.D., Ph.D.
Samson Jamesdaniel, Ph.D.
Hiroyuki Kato, Ph.D.
Jennifer Krizman, Ph.D.
Marisa L. Zallocchi, Ph.D.
spARO Representatives:
Luberson Joseph, Ph.D.
Rose Rizzi, B.S.
Council Liaison: Ronna Hertzano, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Committee
Chair
Jeffrey R Holt, Ph.D.
Outgoing Chair:
Brandon C Cox, Ph.D.
Incoming Program Chair:
Sonja J. Pyott, Ph.D.
Members:
Victoria Bajo, M.D., Ph.D.
Karen Banai, Ph.D.
Divya A. Chari, M.D.
Michael Deans, Ph.D.
Angelika Doetzlhofer, Ph.D.
Aziz El-Amraoui, Ph.D.
Steven Eliades, M.D., Ph.D.
Katharine A Fernandez, Ph.D., Au.D.
Artur Indzhykulian, M.D., Ph.D.
Tejbeer Kaur, Ph.D.
Zsuzsanna Kocsis, Ph.D.
Jennifer Krizman, Ph.D.
Dhasakumar Navaratnam, M.D., Ph.D.
Suhrud Rajguru, Ph.D.
Claus-Peter Richter, Prof. Dr.
Soroush G. Sadeghi, Ph.D.
Regie Lyn Santos-Cortez, M.D., Ph.D.
Lavinia Sheets, Ph.D.
Daniel Sun, M.D.
Ruili Xie, Ph.D.
spARO Representative:
Jessica MacLean
Shakila Mahmuda Fatima, M.Sc.
Calvin Kersbergen, B.S.
spARO Steering Committee
Chair
Samantha N Davis, Au.D.
Members:
Pankaj Bhatia, Ph.D.
Ely Cheikh Boussaty, Ph.D.
Audrey Claire Drotos, Ph.D.
Emily Fabrizio-Stover, Ph.D., B.A.
Elika Fallah, Ph.D.
Afagh Farhadi, Ph.D.
Shakila Mahmuda Fatima, M.Sc.
Esther Fousert, M.Sc.
Leslie Gonzales, B.A., M.S.
Aravind Chenrayan Govindaraju, M.S., Ph.D.
Bryce Hubert Hambach, B.S.
Yuan He, Ph.D.
Austin Huang, B.A. Estelle in t Zandt, B.S.
Estelle in t Zandt, B.S.
Luberson Joseph, Ph.D.
Charanjeet Kaur, Ph.D.
Calvin Kersbergen, B.S.
Paul Emmerich Krumpoeck, M.D.
Ansley Kunnath, B.A.
Jessica MacLean
Richard Mariadasse, Ph.D.
Malvina S. Millet, M.S.
Farideh Moeinvaziri, Ph.D.
Sree Varshini Murali, M.Sc.
Mahesh Kumar Nayak, M.Sc.
Jacqueline Michelle Ogier, Ph.D., B.Sc.
George Ordiway, Ph.D., B.S.
Sujata Pandey, M.Sc.
Shelby Ashton Payne, B.A.
Rose Rizzi, B.S.
Daniel Romano, M.D.
Thore Schade-Mann, M.D.
Ilkem Sevgili, Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc.
Rania Abdulfattah Sharaf, M.S.
Matsya Ruppari Thulasiram, B.Sc.
Travel Awards Committee
Chair
A. Catalina Velez-Ortega, Ph.D.
Members:
Vibhuti Agrahari, Ph.D.
Kevin TA Booth, Ph.D.
George William S Burwood, Ph.D.
James Dewey, PhD
Choongheon Lee, Ph.D.
Zoe F Mann, PhD
Rahul Mittal, Ph.D.
David Raible, PhD
Soroush G Sadeghi, PhD
Isabelle Schrauwen, PhD
Yang-Soo Yoon, Ph.D.
Hong-Bo Zhao, Ph.D., M.D.
Jing Zheng, Ph.D.
spARO Representatives:
Elika Fallah, Ph.D.
Estelle in t Zandt, B.S.
Council Liaison: Katharine A Fernandez, Ph.D., Au.D.