Current President: Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP
Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, medical director of the International Patient and Destination Services Program, medical director of the International Adoptee Clinic and medical co-director of the Travel Medicine Clinic at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She has been a member of the Antibiotic Use and Clinical Trials Committee and served in leadership roles on the IDWeek Program Committee, which has helped her lead the way in how IDSA addresses issues of compensation and workforce shortages. She has served as an IDSA Board member and as a media spokesperson for IDSA and currently serves as the chair of the IDA&E Committee, which was instrumental in developing the IDA&E guiding principles and roadmap for IDSA to implement at all levels of the organization. Dr. Tan also has been a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases. She is a thought leader on antimicrobial resistance and is passionate about mentoring trainees, providing access to care, and improving equity. She hopes to bring her focus on advocacy, diversity, and inclusion — especially for infants, children, and pregnant women — to efforts to improve health disparities in her work on the board.
Past IDSA Presidents
| 2024 | Steven K. Schmitt, MD, FIDSA |
| 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 |