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2008 -2009 Board of Directors
Shawna C. Willey, MD, FACS, President
Victor J. Zannis, MD, FACS, President Elect
Eric B. Whitacre, MD, FACS,
Secretary/Treasurer
Arthur G. Lerner, MD, FACS, Chairman of the Board
Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS, Past
President
Peter D. Beitsch, MD, FACS
Kambiz Dowlatshahi, MD
V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD, FACS
Alison L. Laidley, MD, FACS
Barbara A. Pockaj, MD
Howard C. Snider, MD, FACS
Shawna C. Willey,
MD, FACS, President
Dr. Shawna Willey is the Director of the Betty
Lou Ourisman Breast Health Center at Georgetown University Hospital.
A native of Iowa, she received her MD from the University of
Iowa and completed her residency in surgery at the George Washington
University Medical Center. Before joining Lombardi, Dr. Willey
directed the breast program at George Washington University Medical
Center. Dr. Willey has been an investigator on several clinical
trials. She is interested in international health and education,
having lectured in the Breast Cancer Program for Poland, and
consulted the King Faisal Specialists Hospital and Research Center
in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Willey currently serves on the Board of
Directors of The American Society of Breast Surgeons and acts
as Chairman of the Education Committee.
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Victor J. Zannis, MD, FACS, President-Elect
Victor J. Zannis, MD was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
Dr. Zannis attended Stanford University and UCLA Medical School.
After residency training in Phoenix, he became board certified
in General Surgery through the American Board of Surgery and
is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has performed
breast surgery for over 20 years and now sub specializes full-time
in breast care. He is a member of The American Society of Breast
Surgeons, and has recently been published in the American Journal
of Surgery on the changing surgical technique in breast care.
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Eric B. Whitacre, MD, FACS,
Secretary/Treasurer
Dr. Eric Whitacre, a board-certified surgeon
who practices in Tucson, Arizona, is director of The Breast Center
of Southern Arizona. He is also certified in breast ultrasound
by the American Society of Breast Surgeons and has served as
a lecturer and instructor for many of the Society’s breast
ultrasound courses. Dr. Whitacre chaired the Society’s
2006 Annual Meeting Committee, the Committee on Breast Ultrasound
Certification and is a member of the American College of Surgeons
Coding and Reimbursement Committee. Dr. Whitacre received his
medical degree from Cornell University and completed his surgical
training and served as chief surgical resident at The New York
Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
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Arthur G. Lerner, MD, FACS,
Chairman of the Board
Arthur G. Lerner, MD, FACS, is the Surgical Director at the
Dickstein Cancer Treatment Center in White Plains, New York,
and an attending surgeon and Director Emeritus of the Department
of Surgery at White Plains Hospital Center. Dr. Lerner has been
practicing medicine for more than 30 years and also has a
private practice as a breast surgeon. Dr. Lerner chairs the
Society’s breast imaging technologies committee, serves on
the corporate relations committee and is a past president.
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Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS,
Past President
Jay K. Harness, MD, is the Medical Director
of the St. Joseph Hospital Comprehensive Breast Center in the
city of Orange in Orange County California. Dr. Harness received
both his medical degree and training in general surgery at the
University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. He then remained
on the faculty at the University of Michigan and developed the
second U.S. multidisciplinary breast center in 1985. Dr. Harness
left the University of Michigan in 1989 and spent two years at
Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston where he also established
a multidisciplinary breast center at St. Elizabeth’s Medical
Center. Subsequently, he came to Oakland, California in 1991
to join the University of California-East Bay Department of Surgery
where he was a Professor and Chief of Surgical Oncology at Highland
General Hospital. The opportunity to direct his third multidisciplinary
breast center in Southern California came in the summer of 2003.
Over the years, Dr. Harness has been known for his work in
the fields of endocrine and breast surgery as well as the
use of
ultrasound in surgical practice. He is a member of several
national and international surgical societies and associations.
He has
served as Secretary-Treasurer, and President of the American
Association of Endocrine Surgeons and Chair, Board of Directors,
of The American Society of Breast Surgeons.
He has authored nearly 80 scientific articles and book chapters
and has been the lead editor of 2 textbooks.
Dr. Harness lives with his wife, Cherrie Olson-Harness, in
Newport Beach, California. His 3 children and 3 grandchildren
live in
Michigan and the state of Washington. His hobbies include
photography, sailing and horseback riding.
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Peter D. Beitsch, MD, FACS
Peter D. Beitsch, MD FACS is in private practice at Medical
City Hospital in Dallas. His practice is a general surgical
oncology practice with an emphasis on breast problems (cancer
and benign diseases) and melanoma. He is well published in
numerous peer reviewed journals including landmark articles
on breast cancer sentinel lymph node biopsy published in the
New England Journal of Medicine and American Journal of Surgery.
In addition, he is interested in circulating cancer cells and
cancer dormancy with articles in Nature Medicine and Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science. He is a leading researcher
in breast cancer and melanoma and was the highest accruing
surgeon in the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group
Z11 study. He has placed over 700 patients on various studies
in the last 8 years. In addition, he is co-Principle Investigator
of the American Society of Breast Surgeons Mammosite Registry
for Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation.
He is on the National Ultrasound Faculty of the American College
of Surgeons and has taught numerous courses on breast ultrasound
throughout the country. He is the Chairman of the Community
Surgical Oncologist Committee of the Society of Surgical Oncology
and sits on the Society’s Executive Council. He serves
on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Breast
Surgeons, the Research Committee of that Society and was the
Program Director for the 2005 National meeting of the American
Society of Breast Surgeons.
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Kambiz Dowlatshahi, MD, FACS
Kambiz Dowlatshahi, MD
is Professor of Surgery at Rush University, Chicago, Illinois.
He was born in Iran, received
his medical training at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School,
University of London, and then immigrated to the United States.
Dr. Dowlat(shahi)
introduced the first stereotactic unit for needle biopsy of
mammographically detected breast lesions in the United States;
validating its
equivalency to open biopsy at University of Chicago and Rush.
At Rush University, Dr. Dowlat began to test the concept of
interstitial laser therapy, first in animal tumors, then in patients
with
liver tumors, and finally in mammographically detected breast
cancers. In May 2007, the technique was approved by FDA for
treatment of benign breast tumors. Dr. Dowlat was a member of
the NCI directed
group investigating the value of sentinel node in breast cancer
using radio-isotope technique. In related research, he showed
the significance of complete nodal sectioning to detect occult
metastases. In 2004 Dr. Dowlat reported on the experience of
three institutions on partial breast irradiation. He is currently
spearheading a thermal therapy technique as a sole method of
treating the post-lumpectomy cavity in breast cancer.
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V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD, FACS
Medical Degree
University of Florida College of Medicine
Fellowship Training
University of Florida, ACS Clinical Fellowship, Oncology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Disease of the Breast
Board Certification(s)
National Board of Medical Examiners
American Board of Surgery
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
Residencies
University of Florida, General Surgery
Clinical Interests
Breast Surgical Oncology
Research Interests
Glutamine metabolism
Sentinel Lymph Node (SLN) biopsy techniques
Ultrasound biopsy techniques
Prevention of cancer
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Alison L. Laidley, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
Alison L. Laidley, MD practices surgical oncology
of the breast in Dallas, TX. She completed her medical school
at the University of Alberta, Canada in 1984, a general surgery
residency at the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1992.
She moved to Dallas in 1993 and has been in private practice
devoted to the care of the breast.
Dr. Laidley is chairman of the
Membership Committee of The American Society of Breast Surgeons,
a clinical instructor for the American
College of Surgeons in breast ultrasound and is certified in
breast ultrasound by The American Society of Breast Surgeons.
Dr. Laidley participates in breast cancer clinical research through
NSABP trials, American College of Surgeons Clinical Oncology
Group and The American Society of Breast Surgeons. She is devoted
to the care of her patients and sponsors her annual award winning
team “Laidley’s Ladies” for the Susan G. Komen
Foundation Dallas Race for the Cure.
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Barbara A. Pockaj, MD, FACS
Barbara A. Pockaj is a senior consultant in the department of general surgery with specialty training in surgical oncology. Dr. Pockaj graduated magna cum laude with an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University with a double major in biomedical and electrical engineering. She then went on to receive her MD degree from Vanderbilt University. She received her general surgery training at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She pursued further training in surgical oncology, immunotherapy, and tumor immunology at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda Maryland. Dr. Pockaj has been a consultant at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale for 10 years where she has a special interest in surgical oncology with a focus in breast cancer and melanoma. She is currently active in not only a busy clinical practice but also education and was named the Educator of the Year in Research 2004. She is very active in several areas of research including functioning as a reviewer for several journals, the principle investigator on several research projects, and currently in the research base coordinator for the surgery committee of the North Central Cancer Treatment Group.
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Howard C. Snider, MD, FACS
Howard C. Snider, MD, FACS, is the Medical Director of the
Alabama Breast Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. Snider
currently chairs the Breast Ultrasound and Certification
Committee and serves on the Breast Imaging Technology
Committee of The American Society of Breast Surgeons.
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