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The Society of Black Academic Surgeons | SBAS

The Society of Black Academic Surgeons | SBAS

To achieve health justice, advance science, cultivate professional success and promote leadership for Black and underrepresented surgeons in academia.

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Current Officers and Directors

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President

KMarie King, MD, MS, MBA, FACS

SBAS Officer and Director
Henry and Sally Schaffer Chair of the Department of Surgery and Professor, and Chief of Surgery
Albany Medical Center

Download Dr. King’s Bio

President-elect

Fiemu Nwariaku MD, MBA, FACS

SBAS Officer and Director
Department of Surgery Chair
Professor of Surgery
University of Utah

Immediate Past President

John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS

SBAS Officer and Director
Department of Surgery Chair
Associate Dean – Oncological Programs
Morehouse School of Medicine at Grady Health System

Download Dr. Stewart’s Bio

Secretary

Paris D. Butler, MD, MPH, FACS

SBAS Officer and Director
Associate Professor of Surgery (Plastic)
Vice Chair of Education and Inclusive Excellence
Yale School of Medicine

Executive Director

Edward M. Barksdale, Jr. MD, FACS, FAAP

SBAS Officer and Director
Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics at the University of Chicago and the Chief Surgical Officer of the Chicagoland Children’s Hospital Alliance (CCHA)

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Program Chair

Colin A. Martin, MD, FAAP, FACS

SBAS Officer and Director
Brad and Barbara Warner Endowed Professor of Surgery
Mary Culver Department of Surgery,
Washington University School of Medicine

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Treasurer

Cherisse Berry, MD, FACS

SBAS Officer and Director
Surgery Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
Professor of Surgery at Rutgers
Health, New Jersey Medical School, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

ACS Board of Governors

Anthony Stallion, MD, FACS

SBAS Director
Chief of Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgeon
Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital

Parliamentarian

Sean McLean, MD, FACS, FAAP

SBAS Director
Pediatric Surgeon
Associate Professor and the Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)

Board Appointee

Erika Newman, MD

Associate Professor
Pediatric Surgery
University of Michigan Health

Board Appointee

Andrea Hayes-Dixon

Dean
Howard University College of Medicine

Historian

Mallory Williams, MD, MPH

SBAS Officer
Chair, Department of Trauma and Burn
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital at Cook County
Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Trauma Critical Care, Howard University College of Medicine

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