Current President: Steven K. Schmitt, MD, FIDSA
Steven K. Schmitt, MD, FIDSA, is vice chair of the Department of Infectious Disease at the Cleveland Clinic and head of the department’s Section of Bone and Joint Infections. He also serves as an associate professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. A strong advocate for fair payment policies for ID physicians, he has served on numerous society committees working on these and related issues, including the Clinical Affairs Committee, the Value of ID Specialists Task Force, the Physician Compensation Task Force, and the Leadership Institute Task Force, among others, in addition to serving on the board from 2013-2016. He is committed to using his experience to ensure that ID specialists have a seat at the leadership table, to help attract the next generation of physicians and scientists to the field, and to ensure that ID specialists are fairly compensated for their contributions to patient care and the health care system.
Past IDSA Presidents
| 2023 | Carlos del Rio, MD, FIDSA |
| 2022 | Daniel P McQuillen, MD, FIDSA |
| 2021 | Barbara D. Alexander, MD, MHS, FIDSA |
| 2020 | Thomas File, Jr., MD, FIDSA |
| 2019 | Cynthia L. Sears, MD, FIDSA |
| 2018 | Paul Auwaerter, MD, FIDSA |
| 2017 | William G. Powderly, MD, FIDSA |
| 2016 | Johan S. Bakken, MD, PhD, FIDSA |
| 2015 | Stephen B. Calderwood, MD, FIDSA |
| 2014 | Barbara E. Murray, MD, FIDSA |
| 2013 | David A. Relman, MD, FIDSA |
| 2012 | Thomas G. Slama, MD, FIDSA |
| 2011 | James M. Hughes, MD, FIDSA |
| 2010 | Richard J. Whitley, MD, FIDSA |
| 2009 | Anne A. Gershon, MD, FIDSA |
| 2008 | Donald M. Poretz, MD, FIDSA |
| 2007 | Henry Masur, MD, FIDSA |
| 2006 | Martin J. Blaser, MD, FIDSA |
| 2005 | Walter E. Stamm, MD, FIDSA |
| 2004 | Joseph R. Dalovisio, MD, FIDSA |
| 2003 | W. Michael Scheld, MD, FIDSA |
| 2002 | David N. Gilbert, MD, FIDSA |
| 2001 | Carol J. Baker, MD, FIDSA |
| 2000 | Catherine M. Wilfert, MD, FIDSA |
| 1999 | John G. Bartlett, MD, FIDSA |
| 1998 | John E. Bennett, MD, FIDSA |
| 1997 | P. Frederick Sparling, MD, FIDSA |
| 1996 | Donald Armstrong, MD, FIDSA |
| 1995 | Vincent Andriole, MD, FIDSA |
| 1994 | Gerald Mandell, MD, FIDSA |
| 1993 | Merle Sande, MD, FIDSA |
| 1992 | R. Gordon Douglas, Jr., MD, FIDSA |
| 1991 | Robert Moellering, Jr., MD, FIDSA |
| 1990 | Herbert DuPont, MD, FIDSA |
| 1989 | Morton N. Swartz, MD, FIDSA |
| 1988 | Jack S. Remington, MD, FIDSA |
| 1987 | Calvin M. Kunin, MD, FIDSA |
| 1986 | Richard B. Hornick, MD, FIDSA |
| 1985 | Paul G. Quie, MD, FIDSA |
| 1984 | Theodore C. Eickhoff, MD, FIDSA |
| 1983 | Abraham I. Braude, MD, PhD, FIDSA |
| 1982 | Sydney M. Finegold, MD, FIDSA |
| 1981 | Sheldon M. Wolff, MD, FIDSA |
| 1980 | Floyd W. Denny, MD, FIDSA |
| 1979 | Jay P. Sanford, MD, FIDSA |
| 1978 | Harry A. Feldman, MD, FIDSA |
| 1977 | Theodore E. Woodward, MD, FIDSA |
| 1976 | Edward W. Hook, MD, FIDSA |
| 1975 | Dorothy M. Horstmann, MD, FIDSA |
| 1974 | George Gee Jackson, MD, FIDSA |
| 1973 | Leighton E. Cluff, MD, FIDSA |
| 1972 | Gordon Meiklejohn, MD, FIDSA |
| 1971 | Robert Austrian, MD, FIDSA |
| 1970 | Edward H. Kass, MD, PhD, FIDSA |
| 1969 | Albert B. Sabin, MD, FIDSA |
| 1968 | Walsh McDermott, MD, FIDSA |
| 1967 | Charles H. Rammelkamp, MD, FIDSA |
| 1966 | Harry F. Dowling, MD, FIDSA |
| 1965 | John F. Enders, PhD, FIDSA |
| 1964 | Maxwell Finland, MD, FIDSA |