ASPNR Committees 2026

ANNUAL MEETING

Aashim Bhatia, Chair
Cesar Alves
Rebekah Clarke
Hisham Dahmoush
Alexandra Foust
Orit Glenn
Adam Goldman-Yassen
Julie Guerin
Carolina Guimaraes
Melike Guryildirim
Yi Li
Camilla Lindan 
Mesha Martinez
Jeff Miller
Sarah Moum
Susan Palasis
Sumit Pruthi 
Tim Roberts
Arpita Sahu
Gaurav Saigal
Asha Sarma
Erin Simon Schwartz

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

AWARDS AND ABSTRACTS

Adam Goldman Yassen, Co-Chair 
Melike Guryildirim, Co-Chair
Cesar Alves  
Amanda Baker 
Tushar Chandra
Betul Derinkuyu
Alexandra Foust
Ana Filipa Geraldo
Alok Jaju
Moriyah Naama Shacham
Joanne Rispoli 

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Usha Nagaraj, Board Liasion
Zenia Spear, Staff Liasion

Travel Grants

Camilo Jaimes, Chair
Amanda Baker
Timothy Booth
Kevin Hsu
Jorge Lee Diaz
Elka Miller
Adam Oates
Kader Oguz
Carina Yang

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Korgün Koral, Board Liaison
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

CASE OF THE WEEK   

Cesar Alves, Chair
Ooha Balireddi
Debarata Bhattachary 
Elton Greene
Mark Halverson   
Alok Jaju    
Tracie Kong
Jane McEniery 
Swati Mody
Rahul Nikam  
Alp Oztek      
Arzu Ozturk
Jing Qi      
Adeel Siddiqui
Sumit Singh  
Nicholas Stence   
Helena Witowicz
Carina Yang 

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Laura Hayes, Board Liaison
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

E-LEARNING LIBRARY

Yi Li, MD, Chair
Asthik Biswas
Matheus Dorigatti Soldatelli
Sedat Kandemirli
Rajan Patel
Joanne Rispoli 
Mariana Schuette
Sumit Singh 
Nagwa Wilson
Elizabeth Weidman

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Usha Nagaraj, Board Liasion
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

FINANCE

Nilesh Desai, Chair
Jeff Miller
David Mirsky
John Rees
V. Michelle Silvera

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

FUNDRAISING

Carolina Guimaraes, Chair
Timothy Booth
Patricia Cornejo
Neil Lall
Mark Mamlouk
Karen Moeller
Vanessa Rameh
John H Rees
Chetan Shah
Karuna Shekdar
Shankar Srini Ganapathy

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Nilesh Desai, Board Liasion
Zenia Spear, Staff Liasion

GOLD MEDAL AWARD

Timothy Booth, Chair
Tushar Chandra 
Patricia Cornejo
Hisham Dahmoush 
Jorge Davila 
Bernadete Koch
Susan Palasis
Rajan Patel 
Jason Schroeder
Karuna Shekdar
Carina Yang

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Korgün Koral, Board Liaison
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

INDUSTRY RELATIONS

Jeff Miller, Chair
Aashim Bhatia
Timothy Booth
Carolina Guimaraes
Michael Kuwabara
Mark Mamlouk 
Mesha Martinez
Susan Palasis
Sumit Pruthi
Kartik Reddy
Chetan Shah
V. Michelle Silvera
Shankar Srinivas

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Nilesh Desai, Board Liaison
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

MEMBERSHIP

Korgün Koral, Chair
Marguerite Care
Nathaniel Chuang
Betul Derinkuyu
Jorge Lee Diaz
Melike Guryildirim
Jouhar Jabeen Kolleri 
Eman Mahdi
Rajan Patel 
Asha Sarma

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

MENTORSHIP

Sarah Moum, Co-Chair
Asha Sarma, Co-Chair
Deepsha Agrawal
Deniz Altinok
Hunter Carlock 
Arabinda Kumar Choudhary
Suely Fazio Ferraciolli 
Alexandra Foust 
Orit Glenn 
Michele Johnson
Leandro Tavares Lucato 
Dann Martin
Joanne Rispoli 
Diana Rodriguez
Zahra Shokri Varniab 

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Korgün Koral, Board Liaison
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

NOMINATING & GOVERNANCE

William O'Brien, Chair
Nilesh Desai
Laura Hayes
Mark Mamlouk
Jeff Miller
David Mirsky

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

RESEARCH GRANTS

Christopher (Risto) Filippi, Co-Chair
Elizabeth George, Co-Chair
Kim M Cecil 
Adam Goldman-Yassen
Patricia Ellen Grant
Mai-Lan Ho
Jeremy Jones
Stephen Kralik
Yi Li
Aaron McAllister 
Kader Oguz
Sanjay Prabhu
Rupa Radhakrishnan
Priya Rajagopalan 
John H Rees 
Arpita Sahu 
Joshua Shimony
Sara Reis Teixeira
Sergio Valencia

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Usha Nagaraj, Board Liasion
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

SOCIETY RELATIONS

Julie Guerin, Co-Chair 
Sumit Pruthi, Co-Chair
Vartan Jacques Balian 
Felice D’Arco
Laura Hayes
Hyun Gi Kim 
Camilla  Lindan
Mesha Martinez
Cristina Mignone
Susan Palasis
Joanne Rispoli
Amal Saleh Nour

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Korgün Koral, Board Liaison
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

WEBSITE

Anant Krishnan, Chair
Mike Kuwabara
David Mirsky
V. Michelle Silvera

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Laura Hayes, Board Liaison
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison

SOCIAL MEDIA

Rebekah Clarke, Chair
Venkata Subbaih Arunachalam
Jamie Clarke 
Suely Fazio Ferraciolli
Alexandra Foust
Taisa Melo Guarilha
Amirreza Manteghinejad
Arzu Ozturk 
Moriyah Naama Shacham
Smily Sharma
Marcia Harumy Yoshikawa

Aylin Tekes-Brady, Ex-Officio 
Laura Hayes, Board Liaison
Zenia Spear, Staff Liaison