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

Jermica Smith
Senior Manager, Operations and Member Services

Direct: (312) 202-5553
Email

Committee Liaison:

  • Membership Committee
  • Scholarship Committee
  • Geriatric Trauma/ACS Committee
  • Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society (SCCPDS) – Executive Director
  • Society of Acute Care Surgery Chiefs – 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

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. 

Patrick Croce
Finance Coordinator and Member Services Associate

Email

Committee Liaison:

  • Critical Care Committee
  • Prevention Committee
  • Patient Assessment