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Past Presidents of ASRM


A complete list of Presidents who have presided over the American Society for the Study of Sterility founded in 1944, which became the American Fertility Society in 1965, and which was renamed the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in 1994.

1944-1948 Walter W. Williams M.D. *
1949-1950 Lyman W. Mason M.D.*
1951 Lewis Michelson M.D.*
1952 Fred A. Simmons M.D.*
1953 Irving F. Stein M.D. *
1954 B. Bernard Weinstein M.D. *
1955 John O. Haman M.D. *
1956 Somera H. Sturgis M.D.*
1957 W. T. Pommerenke M.D. *
1958 Charles M. McClane M.D. *
1959 Sheldon Payme M.D. *
1960 C. Lee Buxton M.D.*
1961 S. Leon Israel M.D. *
1962 Robert B. Wilson M.D*
1963 Willis E. Brown M.D*
1964 David N. Danforth M.D*
1965 Francis Ingersoll M.D*
1966 Robert H. Hotchkiss M.D*
1967 Charles J. Collins M.D*
1968 Richard J. Blandau M.D.*
1969 H. Hudnell Ware Jr. M.D*
1970 William P. Given M.D.*
1971 Georgeanna Seegar Jones M.D.*
1972 Thomas F. Dillon M.D.*
1973 Bruce Stewart M.D*
1974 John C. Weed  M.D*
1975 Coy L. Lay M.D*
1976 Herbert H. Thomas  M.D. *
1977 Luigi Mastroianni Jr. M.D. *
1978 William C. Andrews M.D. *
1979 S. Jan Behrman M.D. *
1980 Robert W. Kistner M.D*
1981 C. Alvin Paulsen M.D. *
1982 James H. Beaton M.D*
1983 Celso-Ramon Garcia M.D.*
1984 Edwin P. Peterson M.D.
1985 Charles B. Hammond M.D.*
1986 Edward E. Wallach M.D.
1987 Veasy C. Buttram M.D.
1988 Roger D. Kempers M.D.
1989 J. Benjamin Younger M.D.*
1990 Paul G. McDonough M.D.*
1991 Kamran S. Moghissi M.D.*
1992 Leon Speroff M.D.
1993 Daniel H. Riddick M.D., Ph.D.
1994 Joe Leigh Simpson M.D.
1995 Alan H. DeCherney M.D.
1996 Mary G. Hammond M.D. *
1997 John A. Rock M.D.
1998 Arthur F. "Cap" Haney M.D.
1999 Larry I. Lipshultz M.D.
2000 R. Jeffrey Chang M.D.
2001 Michael R. Soules M.D.
2002 William R. Keye, Jr. M.D.
2003 Sandra A. Carson M.D.
2004 Marian D. Damewood M.D.
2005 Robert S. Schenken M.D.
2006 Joseph S. Sanfilippo M.D., MBA
2007 Steven J. Ory M.D.
2008 G. David Adamson M.D.
2009 R. Dale McClure M.D.
2010 William E. Gibbons M.D.
2011 Roger A. Lobo M.D.
2012 Dolores J. Lamb Ph.D
2013 Linda Giudice M.D., Ph.D.
2014 Richard Reindollar M.D.
2014-2015 Rebecca Z. Sokol M.D.
2016 Owen K. Davis M.D.
2017 Richard J. Paulson M.D.
2018 Christos R. Coutifaris M.D., Ph.D.
2019 Peter N. Schlegel M.D., FACS 
2020 Catherine Racowsky, Ph.D.
2021 Hugh S. Taylor, M.D.
2022 Marcelle I. Cedars, M.D.
2023 Michael A. Thomas, M.D.

*deceased

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