Board Members
STEVE DEMEESTER
President and Executive Director
Course Surgical Co-Director
Program Committee Member
Retired Thoracic, Foregut and Minimally Invasive Surgery
STUART SPECHLER
Course Medical Co-Director
Program Committee Member
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Co-Director, Center for Esophageal Diseases, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, Co-Director, Center for Esophageal Research Baylor Scott and White Research Institute
PHILIP KATZ
Director Emeritus
Program Committee Member
Director of Motility Laboratories
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City
ERIC ALCORN
Vice President, Finance / Administration and Treasurer
Secretary
Managing Partner, Scout Capital Associates, a senior care services development company
DANIELA MOLENA
Director of the Esophageal Surgery Program and Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Associate Attending, Thoracic Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY
GUILHERME CAMPOS
Paul J. Nutter Professor and Chair of the Division of Bariatric and Gastrointestinal Surgery of Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia; where he is also the Co-director of the Foregut, Advanced GI/MIS, and Bariatric Fellowship program
TOM DEMEESTER
Co-founder and Emeritus Director
Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Surgery Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
JEFF PETERS
Emeritus Director
Emeritus Chief Operating Officer for University Hospitals Healthcare System, Professor of Surgery
Deceased and/ or Former Board Members
DONALD CASTELL
Emeritus Director
(b. Sept 19, 1935 – d. Jan 8, 2021)
Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and the Director of the Esophageal Disorders Program at the Medical University of South Carolina