Past AMSA Presidents &
Executive Directors

AMSA PRESIDENTS

2011-2012 Danielle Salovich, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ
2010-2011 John Brockman, Case Western Reserve University
2009-2010 Lauren S. Hughes, MD, MPH, Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine
2008-2009 Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, Keck School of Medicine
2007-2008 Michael Ehlert, MD, Case Western Reserve Univ.
2006-2007 Jay Bhatt, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
2005-2006 Leana Wen, Washington University SOM
2004-2005 Brian Palmer, MD, MS, MPH, Mayo Medical School
2003-2004 Lauren Oshman, MD, MPH, Baylor College of Medicine
2002-2003 Eric Hodgson, MD, University of Maryland SOM
2001-2002 Jaya Agrawal, MD, Brown University
2000-2001 Sindhu Srinivas, MD, UMDNJ New Jersey Med School, Newark
1999-2000 David Grande, MD, Ohio State Univ.
1998-1999 Brad Deal, MD, Medical Univ. of South Carolina
1997-1998 Kavita Patel, MD, Univ. of Texas - San Antonio
1996-1997 Andrew Nowalk, PhD, Univ. of Pittsburgh
1995-1996 Lydia Vaias, MD, Temple Univ.
1994-1995 Terrence Steyer, MD, Case Western Reserve
1993-1994 David V. Evans, MD, Univ. of Pittsburgh
1992-1993 Elizabeth Morrison, MD, Brown Univ.
1991-1992 Eric E. Whitaker, MD, MPH, U. of Chicago-Pritzker
1990-1991 Brad Snyder, MD, Washington Univ.
1989-1990 Jim Slayton, MD, Stanford Univ.
1988-1989 Cindy Osman, MD, Brown Univ.
1987-1988 P. Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD, Duke Univ.
1986-1987 Jeffrey Stolz, MD, MPH, UNC-Chapel Hill
1985-1986 Helen Burstin, MD, SUNY-Syracuse
1984-1985 William J. Kassler, MD, MPH, MSEd Univ. of Massachusetts
1983-1984 Valerie E. Stone, MD, MPH, Yale Univ.
1982-1983 Patrick S. Romano, MD, MPH, Georgetown Univ.
1981-1982 Kathleen Jennison Goonan, MD, Univ. of California @ Davis
1980-1981 Rocio A. Huet, MD, Univ. of Michigan
1979-1980 Charlie Clements, MD, Univ. of Washington
1978-1979 Jack Rutledge, MD, Duke Univ.
1977-1978 Douglas Campos-Outcalt, MD, Univ. of Arizona
1976-1977 Kevin Fickenscher, MD, Univ. of North Dakota
1975-1976 Laurel Cappa, MD, MPH, Case Western Reserve
1974-1975 James Ted Norris, MD, PhD, UTMB-Galveston
1973-1974 Russell W. H. Kridel, MD, Univ. of Cincinnati
1972-1973 George M. Blatti, MD, Univ. of Minnesota
1971-1972 Bruce G. Fagel, MD, JD, Univ. of Illinois
1970-1971 Charles E. Payton, MD, UC - San Francisco
1969-1970 Edward D. Martin, MD, Univ. of Kansas
1968-1969 Charles Clement Lucas, Jr., MD, Univ. of NC @ Chapel Hill
1967-1968 David A. Kindig, MD, PhD, Univ. of Chicago
1966-1967 Blair R. Behringer, MD, Univ. of Missouri
1965-1966 James P. Moss, MD, Univ. of Louisville
1964-1965 John W. Packer, MD, Bowman Gray
1963-1964 Robert O. Voy, MD, Univ. of Oregon
1962-1963 James A. Brooks, MD, Univ. of Oregon
1961-1962 William B. Weglicki, Jr., MD, Univ. of Maryland
1960-1961 William B. Waddel, MD, Duke Univ.
1959-1960 William R. Kirkham, MD, Univ. of Oklahoma
1958-1959 E. Carwile LeRoy, MD, Univ. of North Carolina
1957-1958 Robert E. Rakel, MD, Univ. of Cincinnati
1956-1957 J. Kent Guild, MD, Northwestern Univ.
1955-1956 John A. Belt, MD, Univ. of Oregon
1954-1955 John A. Oates, Jr., MD, Bowman Gray
1953-1954 John H. Caskey, MD, Baylor
1952-1953 David J. Buchanan, MD, Univ. of S. Dakota School of Medical Sciences
1950-1952 Warren R. Mullen, MD, Univ. of Michigan

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

2008-2011 Dr. Carol Williams-Nickelson, PsyD
2007-2008 Paul R. Wright, Executive Director Emeritus
2006-2007 John B. Cudahy
1978-2006 Paul R. Wright
1976-1977 Louis Gianacola, MPH
1968-1975 Charles C. Hewitt, JD
1950-1967 Russell F. Staudacher

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