Guidelines Committee
The Guideline Committee is responsible for all aspects related to EAST’s role as the premier provider of evidence based guidelines in all fields of clinical acute care surgery (trauma, critical care, emergency general surgery) as well as injury prevention. This committee supervises the creation of new guidelines on topics using the skills and the expertise of members of other sections (i.e. Injury Prevention, Acute Care Surgery) as well as the general EAST membership. It ensures all guidelines are up to date by revising already published guidelines.
EAST guidelines are developed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology.
Membership on the Guidelines Committee is not required to be an individual guidelines leader, first author, co-author, or team member. There is a separate call for volunteers to assist on specific individual guidelines.
Committee members are appointed by the President with approval by the Board of Directors. Committee member terms are three years. All terms begin in January and conclude in January in the year specified in "term ends".
Guidelines Task Forces
In addition to the core committee, task forces have been established to assist in the development of specific guidelines. Each task force is chaired by a member of the Guidelines Committee.
Content Task Forces
Emergency General Surgery Guidelines Task Force
Injury Prevention Guidelines Task Force
Surgical Critical Care Guidelines Task Force
Trauma Guidelines Task Force
Members
Lisa M. Kodadek, MD, FACS, Chair- Yale New Haven Health/Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Jennifer J. Freeman, MD, MPH, FACS, Committee Vice Chair- TCU Burnett School of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
John V. Agapian, MD, FACS, FCCM, Committee Member- University of California, Riverside in Los Angeles, CA
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Rachel D. Appelbaum, MD, Committee Member- Vanderbilt University Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Dinesh Kumar Bagaria, MS, Committee Member- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Laura R. Brown, MD, PhD, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Christopher Butts, PhD, DO, FACOS, FACS, Committee Member- Reading Hospital in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Edward Chao, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Jacobi Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Justin Cirone, MD MS, Committee Member- Wake Forest in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Kennith Conley Coleman, DO, Committee Member- West Virginia University - WVU Medicine in Morgantown, WV
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Danielle Detelich, MD, Committee Member- University of Kentucky in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
- Sarah-Ashley E. Ferencz, MD, Committee Member
- in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Sabrina Goddard, MD, Committee Member- University of Alabama Birmingham in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Diana Jewett, BSN, Committee Member- HCA in Richmond, VA
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Abid Khan, MD, Committee Member- University of Chicago in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Husayn A Ladhani, MD, Committee Member- Loma Linda University Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/15/2025
Ryan A. Lawless, MD, Committee Member- Orlando Health in Windermere, FL
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Amelia W. Maiga, MD, MPH, Committee Member- Vanderbilt University Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Vishnu R. Mani, MD, FACS, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Helen A. Markowski, MD, Committee Member
- Honor Health Scottsdale Osborn in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Joshua A. Marks, MD, Committee Member- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Amanda L. Miller, DMSc, MPA, PA-C, Committee Member- RX14 Health in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Ida Molavi, MD, FACS, FRCSC, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Rachel S. Morris, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Medical College of Wisconsin in ,
- Term ends 01/18/2025
Joshua S. Ng-Kamstra, MDCM, MPH, FRCSC, Committee Member- The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Matthew D. Painter, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
David Poliner, DO, MPH, Committee Member- SUNY Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, NY
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Asanthi M. Ratnasekera, DO, FACS, Committee Member- Christianacare in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Christina M. Regelsberger-Alvarez, DO FACS, Committee Member- East Carolina University in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Kate Savoie, MD, MS, Committee Member- Yale School of Medicine in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Kyle M. Schmitt, MD, Committee Member
- USF/HCA Aventura Medical Center in Hollywood , FL
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Asha Shah, MD, Committee Member- St.Joes/Trinity Health/IHA in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Jyoti Sharma, MD, MPH, FACS, Committee Member
- Hospital of Central Connecticut in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
- Anaar Siletz, MD, PhD, Committee Member
- in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Amanda Teichman, MD, FACS, Committee Member- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Elizabeth Turner, MD MS FACS, Committee Member- in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Jorge A Vega, MD, FACS, Committee Member- TriStar Skyline Medical Center in ,
- Term ends 01/17/2026
Linda Imen Yala, MD, Committee Member- Riverside University Health System in ,
- Term ends 01/16/2027
Bellal Joseph, MD, FACS, Ex Officio- University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ
- Term ends 01/23/2026