Committees

The President of the AABIP, who oversees committee functions during a two-year tenure, appoints committee chairs. Each year, the committee chair develops an action plan that is shared with the membership. Committee chairs are asked to report back to the AABIP membership during a general business meeting held after the yearly scientific meeting.

Committee Standard Operating Procedures:
  • All AABIP Committees and Subcommittees are expected to establish a regular monthly meeting cadence that is to be expanded as needed to meet the workload.
  • All meetings will be scheduled through the AABIP Meeting Platform unless an exception to policy is required.
  • All AABIP Committees and Subcommittees are responsible for preparing all necessary external communication for review and approval by the Public Relations Subcommittee of the Executive Committee.
  • Except for the Executive committee that is selected by election and the nominating committee that elects its Chair, All Chairs should plan for a 2-4 year transition plan. Chairs are responsible for creating and maintaining a succession plan that approved by the Executive Committee and includes identifying, mentoring and coaching the next chair.

CALENDAR YEAR: 2024-2026

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Member composition:
  • President
  • President Elect
  • Secretary – Treasurer
  • Immediate Past President
CHAIR: Carla Lamb, MD
  • Sonali Sethi, MD
  • Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS
  • Septimiu Murgu, MD

ADVOCACY COMMITTEE

Member composition:
  • AABIP President X2
  • AABIP Secretary Treasurer
  • Up to five additional members
CHAIR: Septimiu Murgu, MD
  • Ali Musani, MD
  • Sonali Sethi, MD
  • Aki Al Zubaidi, MD
  • Bill Krimsky, MD
  • Carla Lamb, MD
  • Chris Manley, MD
  • Colleen Keyes, MD
  • George Cheng, MD
  • Jared Meeker, MD
  • Joe Cicenia, MD
  • Jonathan Kurman, MD
  • Laura Frye, MD
  • Mohammed Alnijoumi, MD
  • Neeraj Desai, MD

CERTIFICATION COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Nicholas Pastis, MD
CO-CHAIR: Labib Debiane, MD
  • Amit Goyal, MD
  • Anuradha Ramaswamy, MD
  • Ashutosh Sachdeva, MD
  • Carla Lamb, MD
  • Christine Argento, MD
  • Danai Khemasuwan, MD
  • Irfan Budhani, MD
  • Laura Frye, MD
  • Majid Shafiq, MD
  • Raed Alalawi, MD
  • Shalini Mehta, MD
  • Suchitra Pilli, MD
  • Van Holden, MD
  • Anil Magge, MD
  • Ealenor Muise, MD
  • Melissa Tukey, MD
  • Mohammed Alnijoumi, MD
  • Uzair Ghori, MD
  • Shashvat Sukhal, MD

COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL MEDIA COMMITTEE

Member composition:
  • AABIP President Elect
  • Administrative Director
  • IT support staff
  • At least one additional BOD member
  • Up to 10 additional members
CHAIR: Ellen Volker, MD
  • Sonali Sethi, MD
  • Abdul "AB" Alraiyes, MD
  • Ajay Wagh, MD
  • Alberto Goisueta, MD
  • Ashutosh, Sachdeva, MBBS
  • Brian Tran, MD
  • Deep Sharma, MD
  • Enambir Josan, MD
  • Ghassan Habib, MD
  • Grant Senyei, MD
  • Jeff Chambers, DO
  • Sanket Thakore, MD
  • Shayan Mahapatra, MD
  • Suchitra Pilli, MD

DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND UNITY COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Carla Lamb, MD
  • Abdul "AB" Alraiyes, MD
  • Ali Musani, MD
  • Ara Chrissian, MD
  • Chenchen Zang, MD
  • Colleen Channick, MD
  • Fatima Wong, MD
  • George Cheng, MD
  • Husam Nayef, MD
  • Jasleen Pannu, MD
  • Javeryah Safi, MD
  • Joe Cicenia, MD
  • Krystle Pew, MD
  • Labib Debiane, MD
  • Mayank Vats, MD
  • Mihir Parikh, MD
  • Molly Jozefowski, NP
  • Nicholas Pastis, MD
  • Raul Mendoza, MD
  • Sandra Okoli, MD
  • Sonali Sethi, MD
  • Tehmina Hakeem, MD
  • Timothy Udoji, MD
  • Vikas Pathak, MD
  • David Shore, MD
  • Van Holden, MD

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Member composition:
  • Past President leaving the Executive Committee
  • Two BOD members
  • One IP Fellowship Program Director
  • One General member

CHAIR: Georgie Eapen, MD
  • Ali Musani, MD 
  • Adnan Majid, MD
  • Brian Husta, MD
  • Chakravarthy Reddy, MD
  • George Eapen, MD
  • Sangita Goel, MD
  • Sonali Sethi, MD

MEDIA SUB-COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Matt Aboudara, MD

  • Abdul "AB" Alraiyes, MD
  • Abhinav Agrawal, MD
  • Ala Eddin Sagar, MD
  • Ali Saeed, MD
  • Amir Abramovich, MD
  • An Ho, MD
  • Christian Ghattas, MD
  • Elliot Ho, MD
  • Fahim Pyarali, MD
  • Faria Nasim, MD
  • Javier Diaz-Mendoza, MD
  • Labib Debiane, MD
  • Luke Seaburg, MD
  • Maykol Postigo, MD
  • Nate Ivanick, MD
  • Roy Cho, MD
  • Sean Stoy, MD
  • See Wei Low, MD
  • Suchitra Pilli, MD

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

Member composition:
  • Two BOD
  • One general member
CHAIR: Joseph Cicenia, MD
  • Adnan Majid, MD
  • Amit Bobby Mahajan, MD
  • Becky Cloyes, FNP-BC
  • Benjamin Seides, MD
  • Carlos Aravena, MD
  • Catherine Oberg, MD
  • Fawad Chaudry, MD
  • Jaspal Singh, MD
  • Joseph Piccione, MD
  • Kamran Mahmood, MD
  • Leslie Kumpf, RRT
  • Rebecca Priebe, NP
  • Udit Chaddha, MD

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Member composition:

  • Three BOD
  • One general member
  • One IP fellow (to assume role of general member on completing fellowship)

Chair: Colleen Channick, MD

Co-Chair: Ara Chrissian, MD

  • Ala Eddin Sagar, MD
  • Alfin Vicencio, MD
  • Andres Leonardo Mora Carpio, MD
  • Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS
  • Audra Schwalk, MD
  • Christian Ghattas, MD
  • David Hsia, MD
  • Diana Yu, MD
  • George Cheng, MD
  • Grant Senyei, MD
  • Jennifer Duke, MD
  • Jose De Cardenas, MD
  • Matt Aboudara, MD
  • Niral Patel, MD
  • Pranjal Patel, MD
  • Rebecca Priebe, NP
  • Reza Ronaghi, MD
  • Sameer Avasarala, MD
  • Van Holden, MD

AABIP / AIPPD IP FELLOWSHIP ACCREDITATION SUB-COMMITTEE

Current Committee members:

AABIP
  • John Mullon, MD (co-chair, non-voting)
  • Tim Murgu, MD 
  • Erik Folch, MD 
  • Sonali Sethi, MD 
  • Zack DePew, MD 
  • George Cheng, MD 
  • Ryan Kern, MD
  • Brian Shaller, MD 
AIPPD
  • Ash Sachdeva, MBBS (co-chair)
  • David Berkowitz, MD 
  • Carla Lamb, MD
  • Jenn Toth, MD
  • Jason Akulian, MD
  • Jamie Bessich, MD
  • Hitesh Batra, MD
Hans Lee, MD (ex-officio, non-voting) 

RESEARCH COMMITTEE

Member composition:
  • Four BOD members
  • Two general members
CHAIR: George Cheng, MD
CO-CHAIR: Jasleen Pannu, MD
  • Adnan Majid, MD
  • Colleen Keyes, MD
  • Fabien Maldonado, MD
  • Joseph Cicenia, MD
  • Nicholas Pastis, MD
  • Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS
  • Samira Shojaee, MD
Research Committee Workgroup: Diagnostic Bronchoscopy
  • Christopher Kapp, MD
  • Janani Reisenauer, MD
  • Jason Beattie, MD
  • Jeffrey Thiboutot, MD
  • Michael Pritchett, MD
  • Roberto Casal, MD
Research Committee Workgroup: Healthcare Transformation
  • Nicholas Pastis, MD
  • Andrew DeMaio, MD 
  • Jasleen Pannu, MD
  • Kim Styrvoky, MD
  • Mihir Parikh, MD
  • Robert Lentz, MD
Research Committee Workgroup: Pleural Disease
  • Horiana Grosu, MD
  • Samira Shojaee, MD
  • Audra Schwalk, DO
  • Labib Debiane, MD
  • Niral Patel, MD
  • Udit Chaddha, MD
Research Committee Workgroup: Therapeutic Bronchoscopy
  • Adnan Majid, MD
  • Fayez Kheir, MD
  • Kyle Hogarth, MD
  • Majid Shafiq, MD
  • Mathieu Marcoux, MD
  • See Wei Low, MD

JOBIP COMMITTEE

Member Composition:
  • AABIP Secretary-Treasurer 
  • Publisher Representative
  • Editor in Chief: 
    • Ali Musani, MD  
  • Associate Editors:
    • George Cheng, MD
    • Nicholas Pastis, MD 
    • Scott Shofer, MD, PhD
    • Anil Vachani, MD
    • Kazuhiru Yasufuku, MD, PhD

EXAMINATION ELIGIBILITY AND REVIEW COMMITTEE COMMITTEE (BEARC)

CHAIR: Labib Debiane, MD

  • Abdul "AB" Alraiyes, MD 
  • Catherine Oberg, MD
  • Alejandro Aragaki-Nakahodo, MD
  • Colleen Channick, MD
  • Anil Magge, MD
  • Edward Pickering, MD
  • April McDonald, MD
  • Ashish Maskey, MD
  • Fayez Kheir, MD
  • Jennifer Toth, MD
  • Joon Chang, MD
  • Joseph Thachuthara George, MD
  • Laura Frye, MD
  • Michal Reid, MD
  • Nicholas Pastis, MD
  • Niral Patel, MD
  • Mohammed Alnijoumi, MD
  • Sonali Sethi, MD
  • Uzair Ghori, MD
  •  
  • Thomas Gildea, MD

FINANCE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE (AD HOC)

Member composition:
  • Secretary Treasurer
  • President Elect
  • Director of Operations
  • Accountant (ad hoc)
CHAIR: Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS
  • Sonali Sethi, MD
  • Denise Holcomb
Updated 9/19/2024