

Empowering
Surgical Leaders
Nurturing the Next Generation
Advisory board

Javier Romero
MD FACS DABS
LSS Advisory Board Member 2024-Current
Chair, Department of Surgery Ventura County Medical Center,
Studied at University Of California, Irvine, Medical School: University Of California

Julie Ann Sosa
MD, MA
LSS Advisory Board Member 2021-Current
Chair and Leon Goldman, MD Distinguished Professor, and Chair of Surgery
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Adil H. Haider
MD, MPH
LSS Advisory Board Member 2021-Current
Dean, Aga Khan University Medical School,
Director of Disparities and Emerging Trauma Systems in the Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Steven D Wexner
MD, PhD (Hon), FACS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS(Ed), FRCSI (Hon), Hon FRCS (Glasg), Hon FRCS (Eng), MAMSE
LSS Advisory Board Member 2024-Current
Director of the Ellen Leifer Shulman and Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Center
Chairman of the Department of Colorectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida

Luz Maria Rodriguez
MD
LSS Advisory Board Member 2021-Current
Senior Faculty and Surgeon, Division of Cancer Prevention,
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Walter Reed Military Medical Center
*Dr. Rodriguez is serving in her personal capacity

Miguel Cubano
MD, MBA
LSS Advisory Board Member 2021-Current
Clinical Professor of Surgery,
Naval Medical Center San Diego

Christian de Virgilio
MD
LSS Advisory Board Member 2021-Current
Chair and Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Harbor-University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine

Carlos Pellegrini
MD
LSS Advisory Board Member 2021-Current
Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Surgery, University of Washington
Former Advisory board

Maria Soto-Greene
MD, MS-HPEd
LSS Advisory Board Member 2021-2024
Executive Vice Dean, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Hispanic Center of Excellence,
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Carmen C. Solorzano
MD
LSS Advisory Board Member 2021-2024
Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Surgery,
John L. Sawyers Chair in Surgical Sciences
Director, Vanderbilt Endocrine Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
