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Council

2012-2013 Council
Members of the 2012-2013 Council of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand want your input! These volunteer leaders represent all ASSH members and would like to hear from you regarding membership, continuing medical education programs and suggestions for continually improving the quality of service the Society provides.

President Edward Akelman, MD University Orthopedics, Inc. 2 Dudley Street, Suite 200 Providence, RI 02905 Phone: (401) 457-1512 Fax: (401) 831-5874 Email: Edward_Akelman@Brown.edu Ed lives with his wife of 28 years, Vickie, in Barrington, Rhode Island. Their sons, Chris and Matt, are both college students at Brown University. He loves skiing, striped bass and bluefish surfcasting and golf. In New England for the past 25 years, Ed takes heat for being a rabid New York Yankee fan.
President Elect Scott H. Kozin, MD Shriners Hospital for Children 3551 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19140 Phone: (215) 428-4288 Fax: (215) 430-4079 E-mail: skozin@shrinenet.org Scott takes great pride in his work at Shriners Hospital for Children where he specializes in pediatric upper extremity. Hobbies include travel (always with Louise), mountain biking, and food!
Vice President William Seitz, Jr., MD Lutheran Hospital 1730 West 25th Street Cleveland, OH 44113 Phone: (216) 363-2331 Fax: (216) 696-2992 E-mail: seitzw@ccf.org William H. Seitz, Jr., M.D., is a Board-Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon who completed medical school training at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and residency and fellowship at the New York Orthopaedic Hospital Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He joined the Cleveland Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital at Lutheran as Executive Director and Chief of the Hand and Upper Extremity Center in January 2000 after serving as Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland. He has been married to Susan Versenyi Seitz for 40 years and they have four children: David William Seitz, Ph.D., Eric Alexander Seitz, William Henry Seitz, III, Elizabeth Andrea Seitz.
Treasurer James Chang, MD Stanford University Medical Center Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 770 Welch Road, Suite 400 Palo Alto, CA 94305 Phone: (650) 723-5824 Fax: (650) 725-6605 Email: jameschang@stanford.edu Since 1993, Jim has been at Stanford University and has been married to Dr. Harriet Walker Roeder, a psychiatrist. They live on campus with their three daughters, Julia, Kathleen, and Cecilia. In his spare time, Jim enjoys traveling, flyfishing, cycling, and lots of baseball. In the operating room, he subjects the residents and fellows to hours and hours of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead.
Immediate Past President W.P. Andrew Lee, MD Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center 8152F 601 North Caroline Street Baltimore, MD 21287 Phone: (443) 287-2001 E-mail: wpal@jhmi.edu Andy immigrated to the United States at 15, where he benefited from the finest American education and opportunities, and became a general surgeon, then plastic surgeon, and then hand surgeon. He spends his cherished spare time with his wife, Terri, and their three children, Jon, Jackie and Josh. Andy also enjoys opera, politics and Chinese food.
Education Division Director Alexander Y. Shin, MD Mayo Clinic 200 First Street, SW Gonda 14 South Rochester, MN 55905 Phone: (507) 284-0475 Fax: (507) 266-2533 Email: shin.alexander@mayo.edu Alex has been at the Mayo Clinic since 2001, and prior to that at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. He is actively involved in the hand fellowship, resident education, the microsurgery research laboratory as well as clinical research. Education of fellows and residents has been a passion of his during his entire career. When not thinking of hand surgery or research, he tremendously enjoys the time with his wife, children and 120 lb German Shepherd.
Practice Division Director David S. Ruch, MD Duke University Medical Center Box 3466 Durham, NC 27710 Phone: (919) 668-5259 Fax: (919) 668-5476 Email: d.ruch@duke.edu
Research Division Director Brent Graham, MD University Health Network Toronto Western Hospital 399 Bathurst Street 425-2 East Wing Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8 Canada (416) 603-5674, phone (416) 603-5716, fax Email: Brent.Graham@uhn.on.ca Brent is married to Dr. Helen MacRae and they have been careening through life together since 1991. They have two young teenagers, Lauren and Ross, with whom they attempt to keep up on the ski slopes and the hiking trails of Ontario. Brent loves all things related to the guitar and also the Toronto Raptors, about whom he remains eternally optimistic.
Council Member-at-Large Michelle G. Carlson, MD Hospital for Special Surgery 523 East 72nd Street 4th Floor, Room 439 New York, NY 10021 Phone: (212) 606-1546 Fax: (212) 772- 8813 Email: carlsonm@hss.edu Michelle is a native New Yorker. She has two daughters, Lilly and Ella, who attend The Chapin School where she serves on the Alumnae Board. Michelle loves sailboat racing, golf, and the New York Knicks. She is active in the community on issues of diversity. She appreciates the many mentors she has had at the ASSH and at HSS.
Council Member-at-Large Edward Diao, MD Professor Emeritus, Unversity of California, San Francisco 450 Sutter Street, Suite 910 San Francisco, CA 94108 Phone: (415) 362-8880 Fax: (415) 362-8045 Email: ediao@sf-sc.com Ed is a native New Yorker who has lived in San Francisco for the last 17 years. He and his wife Theresa have three children. Catherine is graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Julia is at Columbia University, and Conrad is entering high school. Besides family ski vacations and tennis matches, they enjoy watching the kids’ soccer, rowing, and lacrosse activities, and look forward to their yearly summer trips to Cape Cod and the U.S. Open in New York. Ed is excited to serve the ASSH as Council Member-at-Large.
Council Member-at-Large Charles A. Goldfarb, MD Washington University School of Medicine Department of Orthopedic Surgery 660 S. Euclid, Campus Box 8233 St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: (314) 747- 4705 Fax: (314) 747-2643 Email: goldfarbc@wudosis.wustl.edu Chuck is an Alabama native, a loyal alumnus of Williams College, and now a Midwest transplant. Free time is spent with his 3 children and his wife, Talia. Family activities tend to revolve around sports, especially basketball and soccer. Vacation favorites include the Rockies in the winter, beaches anytime, and Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire during the summer.
Council Member-at-Large Fraser J. Leversedge, MD Duke University Medical Center DUMC Box 2836 200 Trent Drive, Room 5339 Durham, NC 27710 Phone:(919) 613-4541 Fax:(919) 684-1147 E-mail: fraser.leversedge@duke.edu Fraser grew up in Victoria, Canada, before moving "south" to attend Dartmouth College for both undergraduate and his medical school training. After completing his orthopaedic surgery residency at Emory and his hand fellowship at Washington University, he moved to Denver where he was in private practice for 8 years before jumping back into academics as a member of the Duke University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2009. Fraser lives with his wife, Kimberly, and their three daughters in Durham, NC, where they have joined the Cameron Crazies. They enjoy many outdoor activities … somehow they all get back to Colorado and Canada to ski a few turns each winter.
Council Member-at-Large L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 3400 Spruce Street, 2 Silverstein Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone:(215) 349-5803 Fax:(215) 349-5890 E-mail:scott.levin@uphs.upenn.edu L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, is the Paul B. Magnuson Professor (with tenure) and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Professor of Surgery. Levin is Board-certified in Orthopedic Surgery and has a Certificate of added Qualification in hand surgery. In addition, he is Board-certified in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. As an accomplished clinician, his expertise focuses on surgery of the hand and upper extremity, reconstructive microsurgical techniques for extremity reconstruction and limb salvage. His research interests focus predominantly on extremity soft tissue reconstruction and composite tissue allotransplantation.
Chief Executive Officer Mark C. Anderson, FASAE, CAE ASSH Central Office 822 West Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607 Phone: (312) 880-1900 Fax: (847) 384-1435 E-mail: manderson@assh.org Mark enjoys the outdoors – especially when it’s a typical freezing Chicago winter day. His passion is technology, whether it’s a new cell phone or a wireless computer. Mark also loves fiction and poetry, and solving complex detective stories.