Presidents & Master Fellows

President: Alvin V. Thomas, MD, FCCP, is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine at Howard University in Washington, DC. He is Chief of the Pulmonary Division at Howard and presently serves as Graduate Faculty Representative on the Howard University Board of Trustees. Dr. Thomas received his medical degree from Howard University and did his Internal Medicine Residency and Pulmonary Fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, MI. His scholarly and research interests are in pulmonary vascular disease, particularly sickle cell acute chest syndrome and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease. Dr. Thomas has been a member of the ACCP since 1973 and has been active in the ACCP leadership since 1998, serving on several committees, including the Continuing Education Committee. He was a Trustee of The CHEST Foundation (1999-2003), Chair of the ACCP Scientific Program and Abstracts Committee (2000-2001), and was Scientific Program Chair for CHEST 2002.

President-Elect: James A. L. Mathers, Jr., MD, FCCP, is a partner with Pulmonary Associates of Richmond, in Richmond, VA, and has 27 years of private practice experience in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Dr. Mathers received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He completed a medical residency at Maine Medical Center, Portland, then returned to Columbia University for his pulmonary fellowship. Dr. Mathers has served the ACCP in numerous leadership roles, some of which include: two terms as Regent-at-Large on the Board of Regents, two terms on the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents, Trustee of The CHEST Foundation, Regent Representative to NAMDRC, Chair of the Government Relations Committee, and Chair of the Critical Care Work Group. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Mathers has worked with our sister societies, legislators, and regulatory agencies to remove barriers to appropriate care for patients with diseases of the chest. Dr. Mathers believes that a shortage of chest physicians, in particular those practicing critical care medicine, is a significant problem facing our membership and society. He expects to address the issues of a shortfall of critical care physicians, new educational requirements for CME, and onerous regulatory requirements over the next 2 years.

Immediate Past President: Mark J. Rosen, MD, FCCP, is Chief of Divisions Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep, North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY. He received his medical degree from Brown University Medical School in Providence, RI.  After his residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY, he completed a pulmonary medicine fellowship there and a critical care medicine fellowship at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, also in New York.

Dr. Rosen is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), the American College of Physicians, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Rosen has been named repeatedly in the “Best Doctors in New York,” “Best Doctors in America,” and “Best Doctors in North America” listings.  His research interests include pulmonary disease and critical illness in patients with HIV infection; respiratory failure; and medical ethics. A nationally recognized educator, Dr. Rosen chaired the Scientific Program Committee for CHEST 1998, the annual international scientific assembly of the ACCP, and he was course director for the ACCP Pulmonary Board Review Course from 1998 through 2001.  He has published numerous articles and textbook chapters and co-edited the textbook, HIV and the Lung.

Past Presidents
2006-2007 Mark J. Rosen, MD, FCCP
2005-2006 W. Michael Alberts, MD, FCCP
2004-2005 Paul A. Kvale, MD, FCCP
2003-2004 Richard S. Irwin, MD, FCCP
2002-2003 Udaya B. S. Prakash, MD, FCCP
2001-2002 Sidney S. Braman, MD, FCCP
2000-2001 Robert G. Johnson, MD, FCCP
1999-2000 Susan K. Pingleton, MD, FCCP
1998-1999 Allen I. Goldberg, MD, Master FCCP
1997-1998 D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP
1996-1997 Bart Chernow, MD, Master FCCP
1995-1996 Deborah Shure, MD, Master FCCP
1994-1995 James B. D. Mark, MD, FCCP
1993-1994 Ronald B. George, MD, Master FCCP
1992-1993 Paul D. Stein, MD, Master FCCP
1991-1992 * Roger C. Bone, MD, Master FCCP
1990-1991 Alex G. Little, MD, FCCP
1989-1990 Edward C. Rosenow III, MD, Master FCCP
1988-1989 Marvin I. Dunn, MD, Master FCCP
1987-1988 A. Jay Block, MD, Master FCCP
1986-1987 Lawrence H. Cohn, MD, FCCP
1985-1986 James E. Dalen, MD, Master FCCP
1984-1985 Dick D. Briggs, Jr., MD, Master FCCP
1983-1984 Sylvan Lee Weinberg, MD, FCCP
1982-1983 W. Gerald Rainer, MD, FCCP
1981-1982 Thomas L. Petty, MD, Master FCCP
1980-1981 John G. Weg, MD, Master FCCP
1979-1980 * Leon Resnekov, MD, FCCP
1978-1979 Harold C. Urschel, Jr., MD, FCCP
1977-1978 Joseph C. Ross, MD, FCCP
1976-1977 * Matthew B. Divertie, MD, FCCP
1975-1976 * Crawford W. Adams, MD, FCCP
1974-1975 * Arthur C. Beall, Jr., MD, FCCP
1973-1974 * Howard S. Van Ordstrand, MD, FCCP
1972-1973 * Albert H. Andrews, MD, FCCP
1971-1972 * David P. Boyd, MD, FCCP
1970-1971 * Arthur M. Master, MD, FCCP
1969-1970 * Arthur M. Olsen, MD, Master FCCP
1968-1969 * Coleman B. Rabin, MD, FCCP
1967-1968 * William E. Adams, MD, FCCP
1966-1967 * Howell S. Randolph, MD, FCCP
1965-1966 * Oliver K. Niess, MD, FCCP
1964-1965 * Alfred Goldman, MD, FCCP
1963-1964 * Charles K. Petter, MD, FCCP
1962-1963 * John F. Briggs, MD, FCCP
1961-1962 * Hollis E. Johnson, MD, FCCP
1960-1961 * M. Jay Filpse, MD, FCCP
1959-1960 * Seymour M. Farber, MD, FCCP
1958-1959 * Donald R. McKay, MD, FCCP
1957-1958 * Burgess L. Gordon, MD, FCCP
1956-1957 * Herman J. Moersch, MD, FCCP
1955-1956 * James H. Stygall, MD, FCCP
1954-1955 * William A. Hudson, MD, FCCP
1953-1954 * Alvis E. Greer, MD, FCCP
1952-1953 * Andrew L. Banyai, MD, FCCP
1951-1952 * Chevalier L. Jackson, MD, FCCP
1950-1951 * Louis Mark, MD, FCCP
1949-1950 * Joseph C. Placak, Sr., MD, FCCP
1948-1949 * Richard H. Overholt, MD, FCCP
1947-1948 * Shelly U. Marietta, MD, FCCP
1946-1947 * Charles M. Henricks, MD, FCCP
1944-1946 * Jay Arthur Myers, MD, FCCP
1942-1944 * J. Winthrop Peabody, Sr., MD, FCCP
1941-1942 * Benjamin Goldberg, MD, FCCP
1940-1941 * John H. Peck, MD, FCCP
1939-1940 * Ralph C. Matson, MD, FCCP
1938-1939 * Champ H. Holmes, MD, FCCP
1937-1938 * Edward W. Hayes, Sr., MD, FCCP
1935-1937 * William Devitt, MD, FCCP

Master Fellows
2007 Susan K. Pingleton, MD, Master FCCP
2007 Gerald L. Baum, MD, Master FCCP
2006 Om P. Sharma, MD, Master FCCP
2004 Allen I Goldberg, MD, Master FCCP
2004 Paul D. Stein, MD, Master FCCP
2003 D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP
2002 John G. Weg, MD, Master FCCP
2001 Dick D. Briggs, Jr., MD, Master FCCP
2001 Ronald B. George, MD, Master FCCP
2000 A. Jay Block, MD, Master FCCP
2000 James E. Dalen, MD, Master FCCP
2000 Deborah Shure, MD, Master FCCP
1999 Bart Chernow, MD, Master FCCP
1997 Farokh E. Udwadia, MD, Master FCCP
1997 Max Harry Weil, MD, Master FCCP
1996 Marvin I. Dunn, MD, Master FCCP
1996 * Shigeto Ikeda, MD, Master FCCP
1996 Edward C. Rosenow III, MD, Master FCCP
1995 * Roger C. Bone, MD, Master FCCP
1995 Thomas L. Petty, MD, Master FCCP
1995 * Aquiles J. Roncoroni, MD, Master FCCP
1993 *Antonio Blasi, MD, Master FCCP
1992 Alfred Soffer, MD, Master FCCP
1980 * Arthur M. Olsen, MD, FCCP

* = deceased