Charter Members


The Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine would like to recognize the following "Charter Members" for their very generous financial support of SASM during the early days of our existence. It was with this support that we were able to organize, Incorporate, and begin the very important mission of SASM that we believe will have a major impact in both the clinical and scientific arenas.

Charter members of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine (incorporated January 14, 2011)

  • Craig Steven Atkins, APRN, CRNA
  • Dennis Auckley, M.D.
  • Helen A. Baghdoyan, Ph.D.
  • Diwakar Balachandran, M.D.
  • Wish Banhiran, M.D.
  • Steven Bender, DDS
  • Jonathan L. Benumof, M.D.
  • Jay Berger, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Michael Bianco, M.D.
  • Kenneth Bachenberg, M.D.
  • Norman Bolden, M.D.
  • Michael F. Boyer, M.D.
  • Robert Boyer, D.O.
  • Karen Brown, M.D.
  • Matthew Tak Vai Chan, M.D.
  • Joseph B. Chapman, CRNA, MSN
  • Ambrose Chiang, M.D.
  • Frances Chung, MBBS
  • Tom V. Cloward, M.D.
  • Flavia B. Consens, M.D.
  • J. Paul Curry, M.D.
  • Terence Davidson, M.D.
  • Luis Alfredo De Jesus Vargas, M.D.
  • Abhijit Desai, M.D.
  • Anthony Doufas, M.D., Ph.D.
  • George Dungan, MPhilMed, RPSGT
  • Peter Eastwood, Ph.D.
  • Matthias Eikermann, M.D.
  • Nabil M. Elkassabany, M.D.
  • Peter Farrell, Ph.D.
  • Lynne Ferrari, M.D.
  • Bhargavi Gali, M.D.
  • Peter Gay, M.D.
  • Stephen Glazer, M.D.
  • Benjamin S. Gmelch, M.D.
  • Nik Gravenstein, M.D.
  • Rakesh M. Gupta, M.D.
  • Shirley Denise Harris, M.D.
  • David Hillman, M.D.
  • Dora T. Hsu, M.D.
  • Ngozi Imasogie, M.D.
  • Shiroh Isono, M.D.
  • Yandong Jiang, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Girish Joshi,  M.D.
  • Suzanne Karan, M.D.
  • Roop Kaw, M.D.
  • Michael Keane, FANZCA
  • Max Kelz, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Robert G. Krohner, D.O.
  • Andrew D. Krystal, M.D.
  • Alika Lafontaine, M.D.
  • Michael G. Lam, M.D.
  • Rondall Lane, M.D.
  • John Laur, M.D.
  • Mark Uri Lazar, M.D.
  • J Lance Lichtor, M.D.
  • John Loadsman, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Sharon Lombard, M.D.
  • Katarzyna Luba, M.D.
  • Ralph Lydic, Ph.D.
  • Lawrence A. Lynn, D.O.
  • Kathleen Jenni Maddison
  • Mohamed Mahmoud, M.D.
  • Atul Malhotra, M.D.
  • Richard W. Marcus, M.D.
  • Michael Phillip Margarson, M.D., MBBS
  • George Mashour, M.D., PhD
  • Robert L. Mazzola, M.D.
  • Steven McCornack, D.O., MHSA
  • Rachel McKay, M.D.
  • Sascha Meier, M.D.
  • Stavros Memtsoudis, MD, PhD
  • John Mitchell, M.D.
  • Babak Mokhlesi, M.D.
  • Terri Monk, M.D.
  • Richard Moon, M.D.
  • Kent Elliot Moore, M.D., DDS
  • Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D.
  • Sunil Motta, M.D.
  • Kimmo Murto, M.D.
  • Mickey J. Neal, M.D.
  • Jerry O‘Ryan, BS, RRT, RCP
  • Mark R. Opp, Ph.D.
  • Harvey William Organek, M.D.
  • Frank Overdyk, M.D.
  • Barbara Penetar, D.O.
  • Michael Pilla, M.D.
  • Edward Prejean, M.D.
  • Michael Popitz, M.D.
  • Satya Krishna Ramachandran, M.D.
  • Umadevi Rangarajan, M.D.
  • Leopoldo Vicente Rodriguez, M.D., F.A.A.P.
  • John S. Rogoski, D.O.
  • David Samuels, M.D.
  • Katarina Sawtelle, M.D.
  • Aaron E. Sher, M.D.
  • Lisa J. Shives, M.D.
  • Ken Solt, M.D.
  • Kingman Strohl, M.D.
  • Petrus Albertyn Swart, M.D.
  • Bobbie-Jean Sweitzer, M.D.
  • Ravi Tamerisa, M.D.
  • Jenny Helene Walsh, Ph. D
  • Chew Yin Wang, MBChB
  • Jeremy A. Weingarten, M.D.
  • Marvin Wieland, D.O.
  • Richard Wissler, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Jean Wong, M.D.
  • Aijaz Yazdani, M.D.
  • Meltem Yilmaz, M.D.
  • Gary Zhou, M.D.
  • Patrick Ziemann-Gimmel, M.D.
  • Joshua Zimmerman, M.D.