ASMBS Presidents
ASMBS honors the hard work and dedication from our past presidents that has helped build ASMBS in to the organization it is today. Their leadership has been invaluable in lessening the burden of the disease of obesity and related diseases.
Click on the names below to view Past Presidents and their reflections on ASMBS’s history
Edward E. Mason, MD, PhD
1983-1985
John D. Halverson, MD
1985-1987
J. Patrick O’Leary, MD
1987-1989
Cornelius Doherty, MD
1989-1990
George S. M. Cowan, Jr., MD
1990-1991
John H. Linner, MD
1991-1992
Boyd E. Terry, MD
1992-1993
Otto L. Willbanks, MD
1993-1994
Alex M.C. Macgregor, MD
1995-1996
Kenneth G. MacDonald, MD
1996-1997
S. Ross Fox, MD
1997-1998
Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD
1998-1999
Latham Flanagan, Jr., MD
1999-2000
Robert E. Brolin, MD
2000-2001
Kenneth B. Jones, Jr., MD
2001-2002
Walter J. Pories, MD
2002-2003
Alan C. Wittgrove, MD
2003-2004
Harvey J. Sugerman, MD
2004-2005
Neil Hutcher, MD
2005-2006
Philip R. Schauer, MD
2006-2007
Kelvin Higa, MD
2007-2008
Scott Shikora, MD
2008-2009
John Baker, MD
2009-2010
Bruce Wolfe, MD
2010-2011
Robin Blackstone, MD
2011-2012
Jaime Ponce, MD
2012-2013
Ninh Nguyen, MD
2013-2014
John Morton, MD
2014-2015
Raul Rosenthal, MD, FASMBS
2015-2016
Stacy Brethauer, MD, FASMBS
2016-2017
Samer Mattar, MD
2017-2018
Eric DeMaria, MD, FASMBS
2018-2019, Current President
IH Past Presidents
Lisa West-Smith, PhD, LISW-S – 2019-2020, IH President-Elect
Karen Flanders, MSN, ARNP, CBN – 2016-2019, Current IH President
Christine Bauer, MSN, RN, CBN – 2014-2016
Karen Schulz, MSN, RN, CBN – 2012-2014
Laura Boyer, RN, CBN – 2010-2012
William Gourash, MSN, CRNP -2008-2010
Bobbie Lou Price, BSN, RN, CBN – 2006-2008
Deborah Cox, RN – 2004-2006
Tracy Martinez, BSN, RN, CBN – 1999-2004
Mary Lou Walen – 1996-1999
Georgeann Mallory, RD – 1991-1996