Steven Stylianos serves Columbia University as the Rudolph N Schullinger Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery. He is currently the Surgeon-in-Chief of the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital/New York Presbyterian. He graduated from Rutgers University and the New York University School of Medicine. He was the Trauma Fellow at the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute in Boston. He served as Chairman of the Trauma Committee for the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) from 1997 to 2002. He also served as the Co-Principal Investigator of the U.S. Department of Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s grant to APSA “Partnership for Development and Dissemination of Outcomes Measures for Injured Children”. Currently, he is an elected member of the Board of Governors of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, a site verification officer of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, and serves on the American Pediatric Surgical Association Foundation’s Board of Directors as Treasurer. He received the prestigious American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association’s 2016 Champions Award and the American Trauma Society’s 2016 NY State Trauma Medical Director of Distinction.