| Symposium Faculty and Planning Committee | |
| CONFERENCE FACULTY Michael Alberts, PhD, MD General Surgery Vice-President of Human Resources and Professional Development Northwest Permanente Portland, OR Patrick Austin, MD Chief of Vascular Surgery The Southeast Permanente Medical Group Atlanta, GA Walter Biffl, MD Medical Director, Acute Care Surgery The Queens Medical Center Honolulu, HI Catherine Chang, MD, FACS Vascular Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group San Diego, CA Robert Chang, MD Vascular and Endovascular Surgery The Permanente Medical Group San Francisco, CA Douglas Corley, MD, PhD Gastroenterology Research Scientist, Division of Research The Permanente Medical Group San Francisco, CA Gavin Davis, MD Vascular Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group Baldwin Park, CA Farhad Farzanegan, MD Chief of Interventional Radiology Interventional Radiology Fellowship Co-Director UC Davis/KP South Sacramento Interventional Radiology Fellowship Program Associate Clinical Professor - Volunteer, UC Davis The Permanente Medical Group Sacramento, CA Joy Garg, MD Chief of Vascular Surgery at Kaiser San Leandro/Fremont The Permanente Medical Group San Leandro, CA Philip Goodney, MD, MS Vascular Surgery Dartmoutn-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, NH David Gordon, D.Min., MSW, LCSW Director, Telehealth Director, Rural Network Development Faculty, Public Health Sciences Senior Advisor, Healthy Appalachia Institute University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Rajan Gupta, MD General and Vascular Surgery Colorado Permanente Medical Group Denver, CO Bradley Hill, MD Vascular Surgery The Permanente Medical Group Santa Clara, CA Kelley Hodgkiss-Harlow, MD, RPVI, FACS Chief, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group San Diego, CA Paul Kefalides, MD Gastroenterology The Permanente Medical Group Santa Rosa, CA Ruma Kumar, MD Regional Medical Director Supportive Care Services, KP Northern California The Permanente Medical Group San Jose, CA Rockson Liu, MD, FACS General Surgery The Permanente Medical Group Walnut Creek, CA Shaun Loh, MD Radiology The Permanente Medical Group San Rafael, CA Bill Marsh, MD VP Care Delivery IT and Products, Sales, Marketing The Permanente Federation Oakland, CA Dawn Morton-Rias, EdD, PA-C President and Chief Executive Officer National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) Johns Creek, GA Craig Munroe, MD Therapeutic Endoscopy The Permanente Medical Group San Francisco, CA Lisa Nyberg, MD, MPH Transplant Hepatologist Southern California Permanente Medical Group San Diego, CA Brett Partridge, MD, FACG Chief of Gastroenterology Southern California Permanente Medical Group San Diego, CA Thomas Rehring, MD, FACS Vice President, Chief Experience Officer Kaiser Permanente Colorado Region Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Colorado Permanente Medical Group Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, CO Vishal Sidhar, MD Assistant Chief of Radiology The Permanente Medical Group South San Francisco, CA Jacob Spivak, MD General Surgery The Permanente Medical Group Walnut Creek, CA Talar Tejirian, MD General Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group Los Angeles, CA Shirin Towfigh, MD, FACS Hernia and Laparoscopic Surgery Specialist Beverly Hills Hernia Center Beverly Hills, CA George Vatakencherry, MD Radiology Southern California Permanente Medical Group Los Angeles, CA Fernando Velayos, MD, MPH Gastroenterology The Permanente Medical Group San Francisco, CA Stephen Wang, MD Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology The Permanente Medical Group Santa Clara, CA Karen Woo, MD, MS Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery Department of Surgery David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA FACULTY DISCLOSURE STATEMENT Kaiser Permanente requires that all planners and faculty participating in CME activities disclose any financial relationship with a commercial interest that might pose a potential, apparent, or real conflict of interest with regard to the individual's contribution to the activity. A commercial interest is defined by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients; the most common examples are pharmaceutical and medical device companies. All potential conflicts of interest are mitigated prior to the start of the conference and in accordance with the policies of the KP National CME Program. |
SYMPOSIUM CHAIR AND PLANNING COMMITTEE Jeffrey Leftwich, MD, FACS – Symposium Chairman North Area Specialty Chief, General Surgery Colorado Permanente Medical Group Lafayette, CO Michael Alberts PhD, MD General Surgery Vice-President of Human Resources and Professional Development Northwest Permanente Portland, OR Linda Cardinal, MD Chief of Surgery Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group McLean, VA Robert Chang, MD Vascular and Endovascular Surgery The Permanente Medical Group San Francisco, CA Chenoa Diehm, PA-C, MPAS General Surgery Hawaii Permanente Medical Group Honolulu, HI Yolanda Dorsey, CMP Senior Meeting Planner Meetings & Events Southern California Permanente Medical Group Pasadena, CA Pascal Fuchshuber, MD Hepatobiliary and Oncologic Surgery The Permanente Medical Group Walnut Creek, CA Rajan Gupta, MD Vascular Surgery Colorado Permanente Medical Group Denver, CO Kelley Hodgkiss-Harlow, MD Vascular Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group San Diego, CA Gordon Hunt, MD Gastroenterology Southern California Permanente Medical Group San Diego, CA Nathan Kam, MD Gastroenterology The Permanente Medical Group San Leandro, CA Daniel Klaristenfeld, MD Colorectal Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group San Diego, CA Nicolas Nelken, MD Vascular Surgery Gastroenterology Hawaii Permanente Medical Group Honolulu, HI Thomas Paluch, MD, FACS General Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group San Diego, CA Violeta Rabrenovich, MHA, CHIE Director, Medical Group Performance Improvement The Permanente Federation. LLC. Oakland, CA Sarah Shimer Manager, Kaiser Permanente National CME Program The Permanente Federation, LLC. Oakland, CA Vishal Sidhar, MD Interventional Radiology The Permanente Medical Group San Francisco, CA Rahul Tevar, MD General Surgery Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group Upper Marlboro, MD George Vatakencherry, MD Interventional Radiology Southern California Permanente Medical Group Los Angeles, CA RESIDENT PHYSICIAN PRESENTERS Mohammed Al-Temimi, MD, MPH General Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group Los Angeles, CA Eric Kang, MD General Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group Los Angeles, CA Sriram Rangarajan, MD General Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group Fontana, CA Stephanie Young, MD General Surgery Southern California Permanente Medical Group Los Angeles, CA |
