Dr. Thomas Bower is Chair of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic, Rochester.

Department Chair Dr. Mary Hawn in conjunction with the San Jose Surgical Society hosts the new George B. Armanini Lecture.  Dr. Ron Weigel is Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Ehab Sorial is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery.

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Zara Cooper, MD, MSc is an acute care surgeon, trauma surgeon, and surgical intensivist certified in palliative medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.