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
Cornelius Doherty, MD
1989-1990
Boyd E. Terry, MD
1992-1993
Alex M.C. Macgregor, MD
1995-1996
Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD
1998-1999
Kenneth B. Jones, Jr., MD
2001-2002
Harvey J. Sugerman, MD
2004-2005
Kelvin Higa, MD
2007-2008
Bruce Wolfe, MD
2010-2011
Ninh Nguyen, MD
2013-2014
Stacy Brethauer, MD, FASMBS
2016-2017
John D. Halverson, MD
1985-1987
George S. M. Cowan, Jr., MD
1990-1991
Otto L. Willbanks, MD
1993-1994
Kenneth G. MacDonald, MD
1996-1997
Latham Flanagan, Jr., MD
1999-2000
Walter J. Pories, MD
2002-2003
Neil Hutcher, MD
2005-2006
Scott Shikora, MD
2008-2009
Robin Blackstone, MD
2011-2012
John Morton, MD
2014-2015
Samer Mattar, MD
2017-2018
J. Patrick O’Leary, MD
1987-1989
John H. Linner, MD
1991-1992
Mervyn Deitel, MD
1994-1995
S. Ross Fox, MD
1997-1998
Robert E. Brolin, MD
2000-2001
Alan C. Wittgrove, MD
2003-2004
Philip R. Schauer, MD
2006-2007
John Baker, MD
2009-2010
Jaime Ponce, MD
2012-2013
Raul Rosenthal, MD, FASMBS
2015-2016
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