PRESENT & PAST

Officers

Coller Surgical Society

Current Officers

Justin Dimick, MD, MPH

President

Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan

Wendy Wahl, MD

Wendy Wahl, MD

President-Elect

Professor of Surgery, The Ohio State University

Amir Ghaferi, MD, MS, MBA

Secretary-Treasurer

President and CEO of the Physician Enterprise, and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

Wendy Wahl

Steve Hughes, MD

Past President

Retired Private Practitioner

Current Council

Girardy

Jim Girardy, MD

David Heidt, MD

Andrea Obi

Andrea Obi, MD

Erin Perrone, MD

Farokh Demehri, MD

Benjamin Jacobs

Benjamin Jacobs, MD

Lesly Dossett

Lesly Dossett, MD, MPH

John Eggenberger, MD - ex officio

Justin Dimick, MD, MPH - ex officio

Bruce Gewertz, MD - ex officio

Research Fellowship
Commitee

  • Justin Dimick
  • Steve Hughes

Coller Traveling Fellowship Committee

  • Justin Dimick

Audit Committee

  • Amir Ghaferi
  • Brian Saunders
  • Paul Gauger

Nominating
Committee

  • Justin Dimick
  • Steve Hughes
  • John Mahaffay
  • Jim Girardy
  • David Heidt
  • Andrea Obi

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President

2022-23 Steve Hughes
2020-21 John Mahaffay
2018-19 Skip Campbell
2017-18 Deb Koivunen
2016-17 Bruce Gewertz
2015-16 Vincent Cimmino
2014-15 Bruce Brink
2013-14 P. Terrence O'Rourke
2012-13 Gerald B. Zelenock
2011-12 Michael E. Daugherty
2010-11 Thomas W. Wakefield
2009-10 John S. Kirkland
2008-09 John S. Kukora
2007-08 Daniel B. Walsh
2006-07 Walter M. Whitehouse, Jr.
2005-06 Jack L. Kelley
2004-05 Terry L. Sinclair
2003-04 Jack Pickleman
2002-03 Lawrence A. Danto
2001-02 Melvin W. Twiest
2000-01 William D. Blessing
1999-00 Verne L. Hoshal, Jr.
1998-99 William O. Myers
1997-98 Ralph A. Straffon
1996-97 Milton F. Bryant
1995-96 William W. Coon
1994-95 Jim Stanley
1993-94 Fred O'Dell
1992-93 Tom Dent
1991-92 James Mackenzie
1990-91 William Olsen
1989-90 Paul Hodgson
1988-89 Cal Ernst
1987-88 Fred Gillett
1986-87 Jack MaCris
1985-86 Gordon Hyde
1984-85 Norman Thompson
1983-84 Richard Thirlby
1982-83 Jerry Turcotte
1981-82 Tom Nash
1980-81 Robert J. Patton
1979-80 Sherwood Winslow
1978-79 E. Thurston Thieme
1977-78 William Fry
1976-77 Don Williams
1975-76 Chuck Hershey
1974-75 Dick Kraft
1973-74 John Orebaugh
1972-73 Robert Sweet
1971-72 George Block
1970-71 Don Cooper
1969-70 Jack Gustafson
1968-69 Bill DeWeese
1967-68 Bob Buxton
1966-67 Mark Hayes
1965-66 Jim Musselman
1964-65 Chester McVay
1961-64 Kenneth Maclean
1958-61 John Wellman
1955-58 Allen Boyden
1952-55 Henry Ransom
1949-52 Jack Farris
1948-49 Jack Farris (pro tem)

Secretary-Treasurer

2017-21 Brian Saunders
2013-17 Paul G. Gauger
2005-13 Vincent M. Cimmino
2000-05 Verne L. Hoshal, Jr.
1980-00 Errol. E. Erlandson
1980 E. Thurston Thieme (pro tem)
1974-80 James M. Winkler
1972-74 E. Thurston Thieme (pro tem)
1971-72 Norman Thompson
1949-71 E. Thurston Thieme
1948-49 E. Thurston Thieme (pro tem)

Executive Secretary-Meeting Coordinator

2020-23 Tedi Anne Engler
2014-2020 Corey Jessop
1974-2013 Vicki Pope

Assistant Meeting Coordinator

2014-16 Vicki Pope
2010-2013 Corey Jessop
2006 Corey Jessop
1987-2005 Marcia Brown