IDSA Presidents

Current President

David A. Relman, MD, FIDSA, President

David A. Relman, MD, FIDSA, is the Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University. Dr. Relman also serves as chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.

He has played an active role in IDSA, serving on the Board of Directors, Annual Meeting Program Committee, Society Awards Committee, Scientific Advisory Committee, Emerging Infections Network, Emerging Infections Committee, and Editor Selection Committee. He is also currently the IDSA representative to the Institute of Medicine Forum for Microbial Threats. Dr. Relman is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and the Association of American Physicians. He graduated from Harvard Medical School, and completed his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and then went on to Stanford University where he completed a clinical and research fellowship in infectious diseases.

Past IDSA Presidents

2012	Thomas G. Slama, MD
2011	James M. Hughes, MD
2010	Richard J. Whitley, MD
2009	Anne A. Gerson, MD
2008	Donald M. Poretz, MD
2007	Henry Masur, MD
2006	Martin J. Blaser, MD
2005	Walter E. Stamm, MD
2004	Joseph R. Dalovisio, MD
2003	W. Michael Scheld, MD
2002	David N. Gilbert, MD
2001	Carol J. Baker, MD
2000	Catherine M. Wilfert, MD
1999	John G. Bartlett, MD
1998	John E. Bennett, MD
1997	P. Frederick Sparling, MD
1996	Donald Armstrong, MD
1995	Vincent Andriole, MD
1994	Gerald Mandell, MD
1993	Merle Sande, MD
1992	R. Gordon Douglas, Jr., MD
1991	Robert Moellering, Jr., MD
1990	Herbert DuPont, MD
1989	Morton N. Swartz, MD
1988	Jack S. Remington, MD
1987	Calvin M. Kunin, MD
1986	Richard B. Hornick, MD
1985	Paul G. Quie, MD
1984	Theodore C. Eickhoff, MD
1983	Abraham I. Braude, MD, PhD
1982	Sydney M. Finegold, MD
1981	Sheldon M. Wolff, MD
1980	Floyd W. Denny, MD
1979	Jay P. Sanford, MD
1978	Harry A. Feldman, MD
1977	Theodore E. Woodward, MD
1976	Edward W. Hook, MD
1975	Dorothy M. Horstmann, MD
1974	George Gee Jackson, MD
1973	Leighton E. Cluff, MD
1972	Gordon Meiklejohn, MD
1971	Robert Austrian, MD
1970	Edward H. Kass, MD, PhD
1969	Albert B. Sabin, MD
1968	Walsh McDermott, MD
1967	Charles H. Rammelkamp, MD
1966	Harry F. Dowling, MD
1965	John F. Enders, PhD
1964	Maxwell Finland, MD

IDSA Presidents

Current President

David A. Relman, MD, FIDSA, President

Past IDSA Presidents

Infectious Diseases Society of America