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APDS Past Presidents

2025-2026 Valentine Nfonsam MD, MS

2024-2025 Jennifer Choi MD

2023-2024 Amit R. T. Joshi MD

2022-2023 Kyla Terhune MD, MBA

2021-2022 Douglas Smink MD, MPH

2020-2021 Benjamin T Jarman MD

2019-2020 David Harrington MD

2018-2019 M Timothy Nelson MD

2017-2018 Paul J Schenarts MD

2016-2017 Daniel L Dent MD

2015-2016 Richard B Damewood MD

2014-2015 Jon Morris MD

2013-2014 John Mellinger MD

2012-2013 Paula Termuhlen MD

2011-2012 Mark Friedell MD

2010-2011 Linda Reilly MD

2009-2010 Karen Borman MD

2008-2009 George Fuhrman MD

2007-2008 John Tarpley MD

2006-2007 James Valentine MD

2005-2006 Joseph Cofer MD

2004-2005 John R Potts MD

2003-2004 Richard Welling MD

2002-2003 Thomas V Whalen MD

2001-2002 Timothy Flynn MD

2000-2001 Marc Wallack MD

1999-2000 Henry Laws MD

1998-1999 J Patrick O’Leary MD

1997-1998 Tom Dent MD

1996-1997 Bob Barnes MD

1995-1996 Walter Pories MD

1994-1995 Richard Dean MD

1992-1994 J Bradley Aust MD

1991-1992 Robert Berry MD

1989-1991 Arthur Aufses Jr, MD

1987-1989 Paul Friedmann MD

1985-1987 Dominc DeLaurentis MD

1983-1985 Robert Herrmann MD

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APDS supports program directors to educate and cultivate adaptable, skilled, and compassionate surgeons.

​APDS is the leading voice in surgical education, ensuring every program director is equipped to inspire and prepare the next generation of surgeons.

 

The Association of Program Directors in Surgery was founded in 1977 to provide a forum for the exchange of information and for discussion on a wide range of subjects related to post-graduate surgical education.

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