Board of Directors

Officers

Sharon Lum, MD, FACS
President

Loma Linda University

Areti Tillou, MD, FACS
President-elect

UCLA

Lydia Lam, MD, FACS
Vice President
University of Southern California

Maheswari Senthil, MD, FACS
Secretary-Treasurer
University of California, Irvine

Karen Woo, MD, FACS (2023-2025)
Recorder

UCLA

Angela Neville, MD, FACS (2024-2026)
Recorder

UCLA-Harbor

Board of Directors

Joe Carmichael, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine

Cristina Harnsberger, MD, FACS
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Anna Leung, MD, FACS
Kaiser Permanente

Kazuhide MatSushima, MD, FACS
University of Southern California

Jeffry Nahmias, MD, FACS
University of California, Irvine

Junko Ozao-Choy, MD, FACS
Harbor-UCLA

Javier Romero, MD, FACS
Community Memorial Health System Ventura

Naveenraj Solomon, MD, FACS
Loma Linda University

Alicia Terando, MD, FACS
Cedars-Sinai

Past Presidents

Brian Smith, MD, FACS
Immediate Past President

University of California, Irvine

Farin Amersi, MD, FACS
Immediate Past President

Cedars-Sinai

Kenji Inaba, MD, FACS
Past President
University of Southern California

Administrative Offices

2512 Artesia Blvd, Ste 230
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
Phone: (310) 379-8261
Fax: (310) 379-8283
Email: info@socalsurgeons.org

Committees, Governors, & Chairs 

Program Committee

Daniel Shouhed, MD, FACS
Program Chair

Private Practice

Alexandra Gangi, MD, FACS
Associate Program Chair

Cedars-Sinai

Maki Yamamoto, MD, FACS
Assistant Program Chair
University of California, Irvine

National Governors-at-Large

Rodrigo Alban, MD
Cedars-Sinai

Sharon Lum, MD
Loma Linda University

Melinda Maggard Gibbons, MD
University of California, Los Angeles

Yoseph Nasseri, MD
Cedars-Sinai

Beverley Petrie, MD
Harbor-UCLA

Brant Putnam, MD
Harbor-UCLA

Maheswari Senthil, MD
University of California, Irvine

Advocacy Committee 

Sigrid Burruss, MD
Loma Linda University

State Chair, Commission on Cancer

Howard S. Kaufman, MD, FACS
Huntington Hospital

Committee on Trauma

Areti Tillou, MD, FACS
University of California, Los Angeles

Membership Committee

Shawn Steen, MD, FACS
Community Memorial Health System Ventura

Committee on Women in Surgery

Halley Vora, MD, FACS
Loma Linda

Young Surgeons Representatives

Galinos Barmparas, MD, FACS
Cedars-Sinai

Jessica Keeley, MD, FACS
UCLA-Harbor