Professional Activities

Committee Memberships:

National:

• Core Curriculum/Education Committee, Fellowship Council
  2006-2013.

• Publications Committee , Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic
  Surgeons
  2006-present
  Committee Co-Chair 2012-present

• Development Committee, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic
  Surgeons
  2009-present

• Learning Center Co-Chair, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic
  Surgeons Meeting
  2013

• Communications Committee, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic
  Surgeons
  2014-present

Institutional:

• Surgical Education Committee, Emory University School of Medicine
  2006-present

• CEO Advisory Committee, Emory University School of Medicine
  2006-2008

• Physician Advisory Council for EEMR , The Emory Clinic
  2008-present

• EEMR “STAR”, General Surgery, The Emory Clinic
  2010-present

• Endoscopy Leadership/Governance, Emory University Hospital
  2011-present
  
  
• POHA/PACU Working Group- Endoscopy/Operating Room Construction, Emory University
  2013-2014

• Patient Satisfaction Acceleration Team, Emory Healthcare
  2013-present
  OR Renovations, PACU/POSA Workgroup, 2014

Society Memberships:

• Alpha Omega Alpha, 1999 – present
• American Medical Association, 1999 – 2004
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, 2001 – present
• American College of Surgeons, 2001 – present
• Zollinger Surgical Society, 2005 – present
• American Society for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, 2007 – present
• Southeastern Surgical Association, 2007 – present
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 2010 – present
• Southern Society of Clinical Surgeons, 2013 - present

Research focus:

Primarily clinical and outcomes based with focus on minimally invasive, endoscopic, and endoluminal techniques and device development.  Principle subject matters include foregut surgery, bariatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery, hernia surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, and quality outcomes research.