AUA Council Members

2026 | Summer Issue Newsletter

New AUA Council positions

  • Zhongcong Xie, MD, PhD, FASA
    • President
    • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Dolores B. Njoku, MD
    • Immediate Past President
    • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Miriram Treggiari, MD, PhD, MPH
    • President-Elect
    • Duke University
  • Ted Sakai, MD, PhD, MHA, FASA
    • Secretary
    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • C. David Mintz, MD, PhD
    • Treasurer
    • Johns Hopkins University
  • Maria Bustillo, MD, FASA
    • Councilor-at-large
    • Weill Cornell Medical College
  • Susan Martinelli, MD, FASA
    • Councilor at large
    • University of North Carolina
  • Deepak Sharma, MBBS, MD, DM
    • Councilor at large
    • University of Washington
  • Shahzad Shaefi, MD, MPH
    • Communications and Website Committee Chair
    • Mass General Brigham

New Educational Advisory Board

  • Tobias de la Garze Eckle, MD, PhD, FASA
    • Chair
    • University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Maurice "Frankie" Joyce, MD, EdM, FASA
    • Vice Chair
    • Tufts Medical Center
  • Arna Banerjee, MD, MMHC, FCCM
    • Immediate Past Chair
    • Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Karsten Bartels, MD, PhD, MBA
    • University of Michigan
  • Lee-lynn Chen, MD
    • UCSF Medical Center
  • Larry F. Chu, MD, MS (BCHM), MSc (Epidemiology)
    • Stanford University School of Medicine
  • David Joshua Douin, MD, MSc
    • University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • Julia Sobol, MD, MPH
    • Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Trevor S. Sutton, MD, MBA, CPE
    • University of Connecticut School of Medicine
  • Joseph W. Szokol, MD
    • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • Paul Garcia, MD, PhD
    • Columbia University
  • Eugenia Ayrian, MD, FASA
    • University of Southern California
  • Richa Dhawan, MD, MPH
    • University of Chicago Medical Center
  • David Young, MD, MEd, MBA, FASA
    • Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital

New Leadership Advisory Board

  • James P. Rathmell, MD
    • Chair
    • Brigham and Womens Hospital
  • Elizabeth Duggan, MD, MA
    • Vice Chair
    • University of Alabama Birmingham
  • Tetsuro (Ted) Sakai MD, PhD, MHA, FASA
    • Immediate Past Chair
    • The University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  • Sujatha Bhandary, MD, FASE, FASA
    • Emory Healthcare
  • Mada Helou, MD
    • University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
  • Craig Jabaley, MD
    • Emory University
  • Allison Lee, MD, MS
    • Columbia University
  • Penny Liu, MD, MBA, FASA
    • Tufts Medical Center
  • Elizabeth B. Malinzak, MD, FASA
    • Duke University
  • Kristopher Schroeder, MD
    • University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
  • Jessica Spellman, MD, FASE
    • Columbia University

New Membership Engagement Advisory Board

  • Yafen Liang, MD
    • Chair
    • University of Texas health Science Center
  • Christine Mai, MD, MS-HPEd
    • Vice Chair
    • Massachusetts General Brigham
  • Valerie Armstead, MD, DABA
    • Immediate Past Co-Chair
    • Temple University Health System
  • Michael Aziz, MD
    • Immediate Past Co-Chair
    • Oregon Health & Science University
  • Richard Moon, MD
    • Duke University
  • Omonele Nwokolo, MD
    • McGovern Medical School; UTHealth Houston
  • Ameeka Pannu, MD
    • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Harvard Medical School
  • Teeda Pinyavat, MD
    • Columbia University
  • Maunak Rana, MD
    • The University of Chicago

New Scientific Advisory Board

  • Ben Julian A. Palanca, MD, PhD, MSCI
    • Chair
    • WashU Medicine
  • Jiapeng Huang, MD, PhD
    • Vice Chair
    • University of Louisville
  • Christina Pabelick, MD
    • Immediate Past Chair
    • Mayo Clinic
  • Leah Acker, MD, PhD
    • Duke University
  • Nicholas Douville, MD
    • University of Michigan Medical School
  • Dusan Hanidziar, MD, PhD
    • Harvard Medical School
  • Dustin Long, MD
    • University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Christine N, Sang, MD, MPH, FASA
    • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Shiqian Shen, MD
    • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Eellan Sivanesan, MD
    • Johns Hopkins University
  • Creed Stary, MD, PhD
    • Stanford University
  • Keith Vogt, MD, PhD, FASA
    • University of Pittsburgh
  • Brant Wagener, MD, PhD
    • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Emmett Whitaker, MD, FAAP
    • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • E. Railey White, MD, PhD
    • University of Pennsylvania
  • Yiying (Laura) Zhang, MD, PhD
    • Harvard Medical Student