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SMDM Officers and Board (outgoing)

Victoria Shaffer, PhD, President (United States)
Beate Jahn, PhD, President-elect (Austria)
Alan Schwartz, PhD Past President (United States)
Ellen Lipstein, MD, MPH, Vice President (United States)
Ellen Engelhardt, PhD, Vice President-elect (Netherlands)
Scott LaJoie, PhD, Secretary-Treasurer (United States)
Torbjørn Wisløff, PhD, Secretary Treasurer Elect (Norway)
Scott B. Cantor, PhD, Historian (United States)
Rowan Iskandar, PhD, MA, Trustee (Switzerland)
Hawre Jalal, MD, PhD, Trustee (Canada)
Natalia Kunst, PhD, Trustee (United Kingdom)
Kathryn A. Martinez, PhD, MPH, Trustee (United States)
Daniel Matlock, MD, Trustee (United States)
Kine Pedersen, PhD, Trustee (Norway)
Laura Scherer, PhD, Trustee (United States)
Ryan Suk, PhD, Trustee (United States)
Channing Tate, PhD, Trustee (United States)
Brian Zikmund-Fisher, PhD, Journal Editor, ex-officio (United States)
Helen Colby, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, SMDM e-newsletter ex-officio (United States)

SMDM Officers and Board (incoming)

Beate Jahn, PhD, President (Austria)
Ankur Pandya, PhD, President Elect (United States)
Victoria Shaffer, PhD, Past President (United States)
Ellen Engelhardt, PhD, Vice President (Netherlands)
Emily Burger, PhD, Vice President Elect (Norway)
Torbjørn Wisløff, PhD, Secretary-Treasurer (Norway)
Scott B. Cantor, PhD, Historian (United States)
Jeffrey Hoch, MA, PhD, Trustee (United States)
Rowan Iskandar, PhD, MA, Trustee (Switzerland)
Hawre Jalal, MD, PhD, Trustee (Canada)
Eline Krijkamp, PhD, Trustee (Netherlands)
Kathryn A. Martinez, PhD, MPH, Trustee (United States)
Daniel Matlock, MD, Trustee (United States)
Kine Pedersen, PhD, Trustee (Norway)
Jennifer Spencer, PhD, Trustee (United States)
Ryan Suk, PhD, Trustee (United States)
Brian Zikmund-Fisher, PhD, Journal Editor, ex-officio (United States)
Helen Colby, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, SMDM e-newsletter ex-officio (United States)

Committees

Awards

Mark Bounthavong (Chair)
Ashley Housten (Vice Chair)
Cara Janusz
Melike Hazal Can
Rowan Iskandar
Bach Tran
Tran Doan
Scott Cantor

Development

Steve Kymes (Chair)
Marilyn Schapira (outgoing chair)
Emily Burger
Ryan Suk
Cara Janusz
Elena Elkin
Tayo Clemons
Beate Jahn
Joel Tsevat

Diversity, Anti-Racism and Transformation team (DART)

Ellen Lipstein (Co-Chair)
Jesse Jansen (Co-Chair)
Vina Frick
Anton Avancena
Cara McDermott
Tran Doan
Ellen Engelhardt

Career Development

Jinyi Zhu (Co-Chair)
Marissa Reitsma (Co-Chair)
Stijntje Dijk (Co-Chair)
Karen Smith
Hadley Smith
Christine Gunn
Ryan Suk
Anton Avancena
Haoyang Yan
Zongbo Li
Shaun Forbes
Melike Hazal Can
Lily Hsieh
Sara Hofal
Matthew Kaufman
Natalia Olchanski
Kerem Shuval
Kate Lofgren (outgoing Co-Chair)

Digital Communications

Jenny Spencer (Co-Chair)
Alistair Thorpe (Co-Chair)
Felicia Ang
Stijntje Djik
Anton Russell
Yang Zang

Education

Abram Wagner (Co-Chair)
Glen Taksler (Co-Chair)
Hae-Young Kim
Mert Sahinkoc
Jeenat Mehareen
Matthew Kaufmann
Marieke DeVries
Melike Hazal Can
Matthew Haight
Satoshi Koiso
Victor Granados
Ashley Leech
Jeffrey Hoch
Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou
Uwe Siebert
Petros Pechlivanoglou (outgoing co-chair)
Margo Wheatley (outgoing co-chair)

Finance

David Hutton (Chair)
Scott LaJoie
Ashley Leech
Tara Lavelle
Laura Scherer
Bruce Schackman
Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert (outgoing chair)

Membership

Anthony Sunjaya (Co-Chair)
Katie Martinez (Co-Chair)
Melike Hazal Can
Scott Cantor
Victor Granados
Austin Gideon Adobasom-Anane
David Hutton
Natalia Kunst

Nominating

Victoria Shaffer (Chair)
Alan Schwartz
Ashley Leech
Kine Pedersen
Channing Tate

Patient Advisory Council (PAC)

Ellen Engelhardt (Co-Chair)
Ashley Housten (Co-Chair)
Katie Geary
Naomi Tan
Amy Cole
Janet Panoch

Publications

Alan Schwartz (Chair)
Aubri Hoffman
Elisabeth Fenwick
Dominick Frosch
Torbjørn Wisløff
Jesse Jansen
Beate Jahn
Marilyn Schapira
Harold Sox
Brian Zikmund-Fisher
Helen Colby
Ankur Pandya

Regulations

Ashley Housten (Chair)
Scott Cantor
Victoria Shaffer
John Giardina

Task Force on Leadership Transition Evaluation

Bob Beck (Chair)
Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert
Uwe Siebert
Lisa Prosser
Scott LaJoie
Marieke DeVries

Task Force on International Meeting Implementation

Olga Kostopoulou (Co-Chair)
Ellen Engelhardt (Co-Chair)
Ankur Pandya
Daniel Matlock
Rowan Iskandar
Gaby Srocynski
Beate Jahn

Meeting Chairs and Planning Committee Members

47th Annual North American Meeting


Meeting Chairs

Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD
David Hutton, PhD

Scientific Review Chairs

Reza Yaesoubi, PhD
Darin Zahuranec, MD, MS

Short Course Chairs

Christine Gunn, PhD
Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou, PhD

Awards Chair:

Mark Bounthavong, PharmD, PhD

Lee B. Lusted Student Prize Chairs

John Giardina, PhD
Ryan Suk, PhD, MS

International Engagement Chairs

Anton Avanceña, PhD
Emily Burger, PhD

DART Chair

Ellen Lipstein, MD, MPH
Jesse Jansen, PhD

Interest Group Chairs

Laura Scherer (Coordinator)
Victoria Shaffer 
Kyu Lee
Mike Paulden
Torbjørn Wisløff
Renee Arnold
Raymond Henderson
Ron Handels
Shireen Hayatghaibi
Tran Doan
Ilene Hollin
Norah Crossnohere
Anton Avanceña
Ryan Suk
Semra Ozdemir
KD Valentine
Jinyi Zhu
Ashley Leech