The charge of this Committee is to review blinded summary data for all cardiac surgeons in Massachusetts. Such data include risk-standardized 30-day all-cause mortality incidence rates (SMIR), surgeon volume, surgeon complication rates, and other STS recommended process measures. For surgeons identified as having statistically significant higher than expected mortality, unblinded case fatality reports are also reviewed. Selection of Committee members is the responsibility of the current President of the Massachusetts Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS).

The Fiscal Year 2009 members included:

Thomas J. Vander Salm, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Cardiac Surgery
North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA

David Shahian, M.D.

Center for Quality and Safety; Department of Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Robert Rizzo, M.D.

Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, MA

Samuel J. Shubrooks, Jr., M.D.

Interventionalist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Sharon-Lise Normand, Ph.D.

Professor of Health Care Policy
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Kenneth Warner, M.D.

Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Vladimir Birjiniuk, M.D.

Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA