ISA Leadership

Board of Directors
2025-2026

PRESIDENT
Adam Young, MD

PRESIDENT-ELECT
Dean Monma, MD

VICE PRESIDENT
Alisha Sachdev, MD, FASA

SECRETARY
Ajay Gopalka, MD, FASA
(2025-2028)

TREASURER
John Sudkamp, MD
(2025-2027)

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Jason Mitchell, MD

ASA DIRECTOR
Lisa Solomon, DO

ASA ALTERNATE DIRECTOR
Ori Gottlieb, MD, FASA

SPEAKER
Michael Haske, Jr., MD, FASA
(2025-2027)

VICE SPEAKER
Maribel Galiano-Goll, MD

ASST SECRETARY
Graham Lubinsky, MD

ASST TREASURER
Legia Mondesir, MD

ISA DISTRICT DIRECTORS
I. Deepali Garg, MD
II. Santhanam Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP, FASA, FASRA
III. Neelam Rozanski, MD
IV. William Frame, MD

ISA ALTERNATE DISTRICT DIRECTORS
I. Ellen Choi, MD, FASA, FAAP
II. Curtis Bradford, MD
III. Aisling Conran, MD
IV. Wendy Mitchell, MD

ISA PAC Chair
Sean Adams, MD, FASA

Resident Section

PRESIDENT
Kathleen Lubinsky, MD

VICE PRESIDENT
Annie Yao, DO

SECRETARY
Michael Schmitz, MD

Distinguished Service Award in 2024

Ori Gottlieb, 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:

William Hauter, MD
(2023-2026)
Adam Young, MD
(2023-2026)
Luke Northern, MD, FASA
(2025-2026)
Charles Kim, MD
(2024-2027)
William Frame, MD
(2024-2027)
Adamina Podraza, MD
(2024-2027)
Sean Adams, MD
(2025-2028)
Tripti Kataria, MD
(2025-2028)
Ori Gottlieb, MD
(2025-2028)
Michael Haske, Jr., MD
(2025-2028)
Alisha Sachdev, MD, FASA
(2025-2028)
Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
(2025-2028)

Illinois Alternate Delegates: (2025-2026)

Jarva Chow, MD, MPH, FASA
Jessica Crawford, MD
Marco Fernandez, MD
Johnny Lee, MD, FASA
Graham Lubinsky, MD
W.Stephen Minore, MD, FASA
Peggy Wheeler, MD
Huzefa Ghadiali, MD, FASA
Ajay Gopalka, FASA, MD, MBBS
Elizabeth Myint, MD, FASA
Rebecca Blumental, MD, FASA
Stephen Xue, MD

Past Presidents

2024-2025 Jason Mitchell, MD
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

1996‑1997    Andranik Ovassapian, MD
1995‑1996    Rodney C. Osborn, MD
1994‑1995    Jeffery Vender, MD
1993‑1994    Hugh C. Gilbert, MD
1992‑1993    Gary A. Draper, MD
1991‑1992    Naomi Sidell, MD
1990‑1991    Edward T. Toyooka, MD
1989‑1990    Susan Polk, MD
1988‑1989    Morton Shulman, MD
1987‑1988    J. Perry Jordan, MD
1986‑1987    Behrooz Zahed, MD
1985‑1986    Michael Cristoforo, MD
1984‑1985    Behrooz Zahed, MD
1984‑1984    William Gottschalk, MD
1983‑1984    Herbert M. Epstein, MD
1982‑1983    Bernard Wetchler, MD
1981‑1982    Robert B. Dodd, MD
1980‑1981    Ronald F. Albrecht, MD
1979‑1980    Anthony Ivankovich, MD
1978‑1979    M. Ramez Salem, MD
1977‑1978    Edward A. Brunner, MD
1976‑1977    Henri S. Havdala, MD
1975‑1976    R. Merle Stauffer, MD
1974‑1975    Adel A. El‑Etr, MD
1973‑1974    E. Trier Morch, MD, PhD

1972‑1973    Edward S. Evenson, MD
1971‑1972    Alon P. Winnie, MD
1970‑1971    Raymond Rose, MD
1969‑1970    John F. McKeage, MD
1968‑1969    Max Sadove, MD
1967‑1968    Vincent J. Collins, MD
1966‑1967    Ernest Dewhirst, MD
1965‑1966    Arthur T. Shima, MD
1964‑1965    James A. Felts, MD
1963‑1964    Max Sadove, MD
1962‑1963    Richard Lyons, MD
1961‑1962    Ernest F. Kreutzer, MD
1960‑1961    Harold L. Harris, MD
1959‑1960    Lawrence Ruttle, MD
1958‑1959    Huberta Livingston, MD
1957‑1958    James A. Felts, MD
1956‑1957    Bernard Stodsky, MD
1955‑1956    William O. McQuiston, MD
1954‑1955    Frank M. Grem, MD
1953‑1954    Herman J. Nebel, MD
1952‑1953    Lewis Hitchner, MD
1951‑1952    Bryce K. Ozanne, MD
1950‑1951    Charles Anderson, MD
1949‑1950    William O. McQuiston, MD
1948‑1949    W. Allen Conroy, MD

Leadership