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).

Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA

Lecturer in the Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate in Health Policy, Harvard Medical School
Executive Director, John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Thomas J. Vander Salm, M.D.

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

Frank Sellke, M.D.

Professsor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

David Shahian, M.D.

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

David Torchiana, M.D.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
Boston, MA