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Past Officers and Presidents of the Academy

Past Officers of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery

Past Presidents

1880-1899

1880 Samuel D. Gross, M.D.
1884 D. Hayes Agnew, M.D.
1891 William Hunt, M.D.
1895 Thomas G. Morton, M.D
1898 DeForest Williard, M.D.

1900-1919

1902 Richard H. Harte, M.D.
1904 Henry R. Wharton, M.D
1906 John B. Roberts, M.D
1908 William J. Taylor, M.D.
1910 Robert G. Leconte, M.D.
1912 Gwilym G. Davis, M.D.
1914 John H. Gibbon, M.D.
1916 Charles H. Frazier, M.D.
1918 Edward Martin, M.D.

1920-1929

1920 George G. Ross, M.D.
1922 John H. Jopson, M.D.
1924 Edward B. Hodge, M.D.
1926 Charles F. Mitchell, M.D.
1928 Astley P.C. Ashhurst, M.D

1930-1939

1930 George P. Muller, M.D.
1932 John Speese, M.D.
1934 Walter Estell Lee
1936 Damon B. Pfeiffer, M.D.
1938 J. Stewart Rodman, M.D
1939 Stewart Rodman, M.D.

1940-1949

1940 Eldridge L. Eliason, M.D.
1941 Robert H. Ivy, M.D.
1944 Hubley R. Owen, M.D.
1946 John B. Flick, M.D.
1948 Thomas A. Shallow, M.D.

1950-1959

1950 Calvin M. Smyth, M.D.
1952 I.S. Ravdin, M.D
1954 L. K. Ferguson, M.D.
1956 John Gibbon, Jr., M.D.
1958 Adolph Walking, M.D.

1960-1969

1960 W. Emory Burnett, M.D.
1962 J. Montgomery Deaver, M.D.
1964 Jonathan E. Rhoads, M.D.
1966 George J. Willauer, M.D.

1970-1979

1970 Julian Johnson, M.D.
1972 William H. Erb, M.D.
1974 John Y. Templeton, III, M.D.
1976 H. Taylor Caswell, M.D.
1978 Donald R. Cooper, M.D

1980-1989

1980 Brooke Roberts, M.D.
1982 Paul Nemir, Jr., M.D.
1983 R. Robert Tyson, M.D.
1984 Charles C. Wolferth, Jr., M.D.
1985 Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., M.D
1986 Francis E. Rosato, M.D.
1987 Willis P. Maier, M.D.
1988 Dominick A. DeLaurentis, M.D.
1989 Clyde Barker, M.D.

1990-1999

1990 Rudolph C. Camishion, M.D.
1991 David K. Wagner, M.D.
1992 Moreye Nusbaum, M.D.
1993 Robert D. Harwick, M.D
1994 Wallace P. Ritchie, Jr., M.D.
1995 Stephen M. Weiss, M.D.
1996 Anthony J. Comerato, M.D.
1997 Thomas L. Dent, M.D.
1998 Anthony J. DelRossi, M.D.
1999 Daniel T. Dempsey, M.D.

2000-2009

2000 John R. Clarke, M.D.
2001 Donna J. Barbot, M.D.
2002 John S. Kukora, M.D.
2003 Steven E. Ross, M.D.
2004 Thomas G. Frazier, M.D.
2005 John L. Rombeau, M.D.
2006 Linwood R. Haith, M.D.
2007 James B. McClurken, M.D.
2008 William C. Meyers, M.D.
2009 James B. Alexander, M.D.

2010 - 2019

2010 Christopher M. Pezzi, M.D.
2011 John C. Kairys, M.D.
2012 Jeffrey P. Carpenter, M.D.
2013 Thomas L. Bauer, II, M.D.
2014 Jeffrey A. Drebin, M.D.
2015 Chris Tzarnas, M.D.
2016 Dahlia Sataloff, M.D.
2017 Babak Abai, M.D.
2018 Niels Martin, M.D.
2019 Francis Spitz, M.D.

2020 - Current

2020 Henry A. Pitt, M.D.
2021 Ari D. Brooks, M.D.
2022 Alliric I. Willis, M.D.
2023 Michael Weingarten M.D.