ACS Bulletin - December 2015

New members of the American College of Surgeons (ACS)

Board of Regents (B/R) and the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors (B/G) were installed at Clinical Congress 2015 in Chicago, IL.

Board of Regents

The newly elected B/R Chair is Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, vice-chair, clinical research, department of surgery, Miner Family Chair in Intrathoracic Cancers; attending surgeon, thoracic service, department of surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and professor of surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, N Y. Michael J. Zinner, MD, FACS, will serve as Vice-Chair of the B/R. Dr. Zinner is Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; clinical director, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)

Cancer Center; and surgeon-in-chief, BWH, Boston, MA.

New regents

In addition, the B/G elected four new Regents:

James C. Denneny III, MD,
FACS, FAAOA, is executive vice-
president and chief executive
officer, American Academy
of Otolaryngology–Head and
Neck Surgery, Alexandria, VA,
and adjunct professor of clinical
otolaryngology, department of
otolaryngology–head and neck
surgery, University of Missouri-
Columbia. A Fellow of the
College since 1991, Dr. Denneny
has been an ACS Governor since
2009 and has served on the B/G
Executive Committee since 2011.

As Secretary of the B/G (2014–2015), he served on the Executive Compensation Committee and the B/R Finance Committee. He has been Chair of the B/G Advocacy and Health Policy Pillar since 2013, has been a member of the B/G Socioeconomic Committee since 2011, served on the B/G Ad Hoc Committee to Restructure the Governors Committees (2012–2013), and chaired the B/G Coalition Workgroup (2013–2014). Dr. Denneny also has served on the Advisory Council for Otolaryngology– Head and Neck Surgery (2009–

2015), the Health Policy and Advocacy Group (2013–2014), and the Missouri Credentials Committee (2009–2015).

Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS,

is the Bixby Professor of Surgery and chair of surgery; Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor and director, The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center; and surgeon-in-chief, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine,