Officers & Committees

 

Officers

 

President - M. Cristina Pacheco, MD
 
Treasurer - Chandra Krishnan, MD
 
Our Team | Welcome to the Stress, Pregnancy & Health Study
Past President - Linda Ernst, MD
 
Jefferson Terry | BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Secretary - Jefferson Terry, MD, PhD, FRCPC
 
 
Treasurer - Jennifer Black, MD

 Board of Directors

Fusun Gundogan, MD (2025)
Kyle Kurek, MD (2025)
Jennifer Picarsic, MD (2026)
Karen Chisholm, MD, PhD (2026)

Aliya Husain, MD (2027)
Amy McKenney, MD (2027)
Csaba Galambos, MD. PhD (2028)
Erin Rudzinski, MD (2028)

Special Positions
Social Media Specialists
-Sonja Chen, MD
-Mercia Dibe Gondim, MD

Board of Directors Liaison to the PDP
Kyle Kurek, MD
Committees
 
Education Committee 
Lauren Parsons, MD (Chair, 2026) 
Consolato Sergi, MD, PhD, MPH, FRCPC, FCAP (2025) 
Shirpa Garg, MD (2025)
Shahrazad Saab, MD (2025)
Larry Wang, MD, PhD (2026)
Nick Shillingford, MD (2027)
Kristen Thomas, MD (2027)
 
Workshop Subcommittee 
Shahrazad Saab, MD (Chair, 2027)  
Oscar Lopez-Nunez, MD (2026)
Sandy Cope-Yokoyama, MD (2026)
Kathryn McFadden, MD (2027)
Naseem Uddin, MD (2027)
Dina El Demellawy, MD, PhD (2027)
Sean Ricciardo, MD (2027)
Camilla Stefanovici, MD (2027)
 
Symposium Subcommittee 
Diana Corao-Uribe, MD (Chair, 2027) 
Dehua Wang, MD (2026)
Lea Surrey, MD (2026)
Melissa Gener, MD (2027)
 
Perinatal Subcommittee
Katte Carreon (Chair, 2028)
Rebecca Baegen, MD (Board Liaison, 2025)
Mana Parast, MD, PhD (2025)
Sanjita Revishankar, MD (2025)
Francois Cady, MD (2025)
Stefan Kostadinov, MD (2025)
Jessica Comstock, MD (2025)
Alysa Poulin, MD, PhD (2026)
Charlotte Kim, MD (2027)
Kerby Oberg, MD, PhD (2027)

 

Slide Survey Committee 
Bradford Siegele, MD, JD (Chair, 2025)
Jenna Bodmer (2026)
Shannon Kelley, MD (2025)
Julie Fanburgh-Smith, MD (2026)
Anita Nagy (2026)
Athena Chen (2026)
Ali Saad, MD (2026)
Natalia Belova, MD (2027)
Jessenia Guerrero, MD (2027)
Robyn Reed, MD, PhD (2027)
Jose Velasquez-Vega, MD (2027)
Mikako Warren, MD (2027)
Robert Byrd, MD (2027)
Jessica Hata, MD (2028)
Qian Wang, MD (2028)

 
 
 
Research & Awards Committee 
Ben Wilkins, MD, PhD (Chair, 2026) 
Serena Tan, MD (Abstract Director, 2027)
Selene Koo, MD, PhD (Awards Director, 2025)
Jennifer Pogoriler, MD, PhD (2025)
Michael Covinsky, MD, PhD (2025)
Claudia Salgado, MD, PhD (2026)
Dina El Demellawy, MD, PhD (2026)
Hao Wu, MD, PhD (2026)
Rachel Mariani, MD (2027)
John Hicks, MD (2027)
Archana Shenoy, MBBS (2027)
 
 
 
 
*Junior Member
 

Each committee member is required to complete a disclosure to identify any possible conflicts of interest. If a conflict exists, membership on the committee may need to be re-evaluated.

SPP - Strategic Task Forces Dashboard

Task Force Name  Date Started Chairperson  Members  Main Objective(s)   Accomplishments Date Completed
Future Fall Meeting  7/1/2023 Jefferson Terry Sanda Alexandrescu, Laura Finn, Rachel Angelica Mariani, Gino Somers, Serena Tan, Ameet Thaker, Sara Vargas Generate a single general template for all future fall meetings to simplify planning (attach charge) Created a template for the flagship SPP Fall meeting which can be used for future meeting planning (attach it here) 9/1/2023
Symposium and USCAP Companion Meeting Topic Selection  1/1/2024 Cristina Pacheco

Chandra Krishnan, Lauren Parsons, Jaincong Liang, Eumenia Castro, Kyle Kurek, Lauren Kroll-Wheeler, Charles Timmons

 Delineate a process for USCAP Companion Society Meeting topic selection and SPP Fall Meeting pediatric and perinatal topic selection (attach charge)  Changes to Fall host submission form (attach here); changes to website (give links)  8/1/2024
USCAP 2025 Booth  3/22/2024 Jennifer Picarsic

Amer Heider, Shawn Gong, Mike Arnold, Kristen Thomas, Amelia Sybenga

  Investigate costs, design and man a tradeshow booth at the USCAP meeting 2025 in Boston. (attach charge)    
Placental Pathology Reporting 3/22/2024 Sanjita Ravishankar

Eumenia Castro, Ginger Duncan, Drucilla Roberts, Mana Parast, Katte Carreon, Francois Cady, Lindsey Wimmer, Sunitha Suresh, Alexa Freedman

 1) Formulate a recommendation for standardized placental pathology reporting. 2) Implement this recommendation in the pathology community at large 3) Spearhead an educational effort (attach charge)    
SPP Mentoring 7/1/2024 Amer Heider (pending)

TBD

 Establish a framework for SPP members to find mentoring and mentorship relationships within the SPP    

 

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