Past Presidents

We thank and recognize these leaders who have inspired the AAAAI and its members toward reaching our mission of advancing the knowledge and practice of allergy, asthma and immunology for optimal patient care.

1944    Robert Chobot, MD, FAAAAI
1945    Oscar Swineford, Jr., MD, FAAAAI
1946    Stearns S. Bullen, MD, FAAAAI
1947    Will C. Spain, MD, FAAAAI
1948    Karl D. Figley, MD, FAAAAI
1949    Walter L. Winkenwerder, MD, FAAAAI
1950    Theodore L. Squire, MD, FAAAAI
1951    Horace C. Baldwin, MD, FAAAAI
1952    Walter S. Burrage, Jr., MD, FAAAAI
1953    Ben Z. Rappaport, MD, FAAAAI
1954    John M. Sheldon, MD, FAAAAI
1955    Stanley F. Hampton, MD, FAAAAI
1956    Carl E. Arbesman, MD, FAAAAI
1957    William B. Sherman, MD, FAAAAI
1958    Max Samter, MD, FAAAAI
1959    Francis C. Lowell, MD, FAAAAI
1960    Bram Rose, MD, FAAAAI
1961    George I. Blumstein, MD, FAAAAI
1962    Joseph W. Noah, MD, FAAAAI
1963    Edmund L. Keeney, MD, FAAAAI
1964    Kenneth P. Matthews, MD, FAAAAI
1965    David W. Talmage, MD, FAAAAI
1966    Paul M. Seebohm, MD, FAAAAI
1967    John H. Vaughan, MD, FAAAAI
1968    Murray Dworetzky, MD, FAAAAI
1969    Richard S. Farr, MD, FAAAAI
1970    Saul Malkiel, MD, FAAAAI
1971    Paul P. Van Arsdel, Jr., MD, FAAAAI
1972    Elliott Middleton, Jr., MD, FAAAAI
1973    Charles E. Reed, MD, FAAAAI
1974    Sheldon C. Siegel, MD, FAAAAI
1975    Philip S. Norman, MD, FAAAAI
1976    Roy Patterson, MD, FAAAAI
1977    Oscar L. Frick, MD, FAAAAI
1978    Thomas E. Van Metre, Jr., MD, FAAAAI
1979    Rebecca H. Buckley, MD, FAAAAI
1980    Robert E. Reisman, MD, FAAAAI
1981    K. Frank Austen, MD, FAAAAI
1982    I. Leonard Bernstein, MD, FAAAAI
1983    Raymond G. Slavin, MD, FAAAAI
1984    Jordan N. Fink, MD, FAAAAI
1985    John E. Salvaggio, MD, FAAAAI
1986    Elliot F. Ellis, MD, FAAAAI
1987    Albert L. Sheffer, MD, FAAAAI
1988    Phillip L. Lieberman, MD, FAAAAI
1989    Allen P. Kaplan, MD, FAAAAI
1990    John A. Anderson, MD, FAAAAI
1991    William E. Pierson, MD, FAAAAI
1992    Richard F. Lockey, MD, FAAAAI
1993    Lawrence Lichtenstein, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
1994    Burton Zweiman, MD, FAAAAI
1995    Michael Kaliner, MD, FAAAAI
1996    Philip Fireman, MD, FAAAAI
1997    Gary S. Rachelefsky, MD, FAAAAI
1998    Stephen I. Wasserman, MD, FAAAAI
1999    James P. Kemp, MD, FAAAAI
2000    William W. Busse, MD, FAAAAI
2001    Gail G. Shapiro, MD, FAAAAI
2002    Dean D. Metcalfe, MD, FAAAAI
2003    Lanny J. Rosenwasser, MD, FAAAAI
2004    Michael Schatz, MD, MS, FAAAAI
2005    F. Estelle R. Simons, MD, FAAAAI
2006    Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2007    Thomas B. Casale, MD, FAAAAI
2008    Hugh A. Sampson, MD, FAAAAI
2009    Paul A. Greenberger, MD, FAAAAI
2010    Mark Ballow, MD, FAAAAI
2011    Dennis Ledford, MD, FAAAAI
2012    A. Wesley Burks, MD, FAAAAI
2013    Linda Cox, MD, FAAAAI
2014    James T. Li, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2015    Robert F. Lemanske, Jr., MD, FAAAAI
2016    Thomas A. Fleisher, MD, FAAAAI
2017    David B. Peden, MD, MS, FAAAAI
2018    Robert A. Wood, MD, FAAAAI
2019    David M. Lang, MD, FAAAAI
2020    Mary Beth Fasano, MD, MSPH, FAAAAI
2021    Giselle S. Mosnaim, MD, MS, FAAAAI
2022    David A. Khan, MD, FAAAAI
2023    Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD, FAAAAI
2024    Paul V. Williams, MD, FAAAAI
2025    Frank S. Virant, MD, FAAAAI