ISA Leadership

Board of Directors
2024-2025

PRESIDENT
Jason Mitchell, MD

PRESIDENT-ELECT
Ajay Gopalka, MD, FASA

VICE PRESIDENT    
Adam Young, MD

SECRETARY
Dean Monma, MD
(2023-2026)

TREASURER       
Alisha Sachdev, MD, FASA
(2024-2026)

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Charles C Kim MD, FASA

ASA DIRECTOR  
Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, FASA

ASA ALTERNATE DIRECTOR
Lisa Solomon, DO, FASA

SPEAKER
Michael Haske, Jr., MD, FASA
(2024-2026)

VICE SPEAKER  
Maribel Galiano-Goll, MD

ASST SECRETARY  
Shreya Aggarwal, MD, FASA

ASST TREASURER
John Sudkamp, MD

Illinois House of Delegates (2024)

ISA District 1 Delegates:

Mehr Aftab, MD
Shreya Aggarwal, MD, FASA
Smitha Arekapudi, MD, ScM, MBA, FASA
Aisha Bhatti, MD
Liting Chen, MD
Christopher Chiang, MD
Ellen Choi, MD
Jarva Chow, MD, MPH, FASA
Vicente Garcia Tomas, MD
Deepali Garg, MD
Hokuto Nishioka, MD
Chanannait Paisansathan, MD, MHA
Richard Ropp, MD
Alisha Sachdev, MD, FASA
Kurosh Takhtehchian, DO
Mahesh Vaidyanathan, MD, MBA
Keziah Vargas, MD
Geeta Wadhwani, MD
Jessica Weeks, MD
Peggy Wheeler, MD

ISA District 2 Delegates:

Michael Haske, Jr., MD, FASA
Amit Jain, MD
John Jaworowicz, MD, FASA
Jay Kiokemeister, DO, MPH
Johnny Lee, MD
Alison Matthews, MD
Legia Mondesir, MD
Dickson Wu, MD
Sophy Zheng, MD

ISA District 3 Delegates:

Samir Abdo, MD
Marco Fernandez, MD
Huzefa Ghadiali, MD, FASA
Robert Husfield, MD
Adamina Podraza, MD, FASA, FAAP
Neelam Rozanski, DO
Daniel Short, MD
Simrata Singh, MD
Glenn Zemel, MD

ISA District 4 Delegates:

Alexander Chaikin, MD
William Frame, MD
William Hauter, MD, FASA
Brian Mecklenburg, MD
W. Stephen Minore, MD, FASA
Bernard Wittels, MD, PhD

ASA House of
Delegates

Illinois Delegates:

Sean Adams, MD, FASA
(2022-2025)
William Frame, MD, FASA
(2024-2027)
Maribel Galiano-Goll, MD
(2022-2025)
Ajay Gopalka, MD, FASA
(2022-2025)
Ori Gottlieb, MD, FASA
(2022-2025)
Michael Haske, Jr, MD, FASA
(2022-2025)
William Hauter, MD
(2023-2026)
Tripti Kataria, MD, FASA, MPH
(2022-2025)
Charles Kim, MD, FASA
(2024-2027)
Adamina Podraza, MD, FASA, FAAP
(2024-2027)
Lisa Solomon, DO, FASA
(2023-2026)
Adam Young, MD
(2023-2026)

Illinois Alternate Delegates: (2024-2025)

Wendy Binstock, MD, FASA
Jarva Chow, MD, MPH, FASA
Jessica Crawford, MD
Marco Fernandez, MD
Johnny Lee, MD, FASA
Graham Lubinsky, MD, FASA
W. Stephen Minore, MD, FASA
Luke Northern, MD, FASA
Christine Park, MD, FASA
Alisha Sachdev, MD, FASA
Mahesh Vaidyanathan, MD, MBA
Peggy Wheeler, MD

Past Presidents

2023-2024    Charles Kim, MD, FASA
2022-2023    Adamina Podraza, MD, FASA
2021‑2022    Brian Birmingham, MD
2020–2021   Tripti Kataria, MD, MPH
2019‑2020    Sean Adams, MD
2018‑2019    Ori Gottlieb, MD
2017‑2018    Gary F. Tzeng, MD
2016‑2017    W. Scott Jellish, MD
2015‑2016    George G. Hefner, MD
2014‑2015    Timothy W. Starck, MD
2013‑2014    Thomas W. Cutter, MD
2012‑2013    Edward Yaghmour, MD
2011‑2012    Eric Werner, MD
2010‑2011    Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
2009‑2010    Ralph Glasser, MD
2008‑2009    Wendy B. Binstock, MD
2007‑2008    Joseph W. Szokol, MD
2006‑2007    John E. Szewczyk, MD
2005‑2006    Usharani Nimmagadda, MD
2004‑2005    W. Stephen Minore, MD
2003‑2004    David M. Rothenberg, MD
2002‑2003    Timothy R. Lubenow, MD
2001‑2002    John Paul McGee, II, MD
2000‑2001    Jeffrey L. Apfelbaum, MD
1999‑2000    Kenneth J. Tuman, MD
1998‑1999    Sandra Drewes, MD
1997‑1998    Steven C. Hall, MD