AAST Staff

Sharon Gautschy
Executive Director

Direct: (312) 202-5252
Email

Staff Liaison:

  • Executive Committee
  • Nominating Committee
  • Journals Oversight Committee
  • Healthcare Economics Committee
  • Ad Hoc EGS Committee
  • Military Liaison Committee
  • Palliative Care Committee
  • Pediatric Trauma Surgery Committee
  • International Relations Committee
  • Patient Assessment Committee

Jermica Smith
Director of Operations

Direct: (312) 202-5553
Email

Co-Committee Liaison:

  • Membership Committee
  • Scholarship Committee
  • Geriatric Trauma/ACS Committee
  • Prevention Committee
  • Patient Assessment

Committee Liaison:

  • Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society (SCCPDS) – Executive Director
  • Society of Acute Care Surgery Chiefs (SACSC) – Administrative Director
  • Women In Trauma Surgery (WITS) - Administrator
  • World Coalition for Trauma Care (WCTC) - Administrator

Rachel Sass
Education Manager

Direct: (312) 202-5792
Email

Committee Liaison:

  • Program Committee
  • Education Development Committee
  • Trauma Guidelines Repository Work Group with ACS-COT
  • Emergency Surgery Course Steering Committee
  • Leadership Academy
  • RoBoTRACS

Brea Sanders
Member Services Associate, Administrator, Associate Member Council

Direct: (312) 202-5554
Email

Committee Liaison:

  • Associate Member Council
  • Associate Member Education Committee
  • Associate Member Communications Committee
  • Associate Member Scholarship Committee
  • Associate Member Research Committee
  • Associate Member Engagement Committee
  • Multi-Institutional Trials Committee
  • Research and Education Fund Committee

Kaitlyn Sanders
Member Services, Education Coordinator

Direct: (312) 202-5750
Email

Committee Liaison:

  • Disaster Committee
  • Inclusion, Diversity, Equity Committee
  • Critical Care Committee

Kelly Yu
Member Services and Operations Coordinator

Direct: (312) 202-5180
Email

Co-Committee Liaison:

  • Geriatric Trauma/ACS Committee
  • Prevention Committee
  • Patient Assessment
  • Membership Committee
  • Scholarship Committee

Bridget McLaughlin Lindbloom
ACS Committee Liaison

Direct: (800) 789-4006
Email

Committee Liaison:

  • Acute Care Surgery Committee
  • ACS Program Directors Committee
  • ACS Boot Camp

Erin Lillis
Marketing and Design

Email

Committee Liaison:

  • Communications and Social Media Committee
  • Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS) Social Media and Website

Erin manages all of AAST’s Marketing and Social Media.