Governance Leadership
- President – David L. Bronson, MD, FACP
- Chair, Board of Regents – Phyllis A. Guze, MD, FACP
- Treasurer - Dennis Schaberg, MD, MACP
- Immediate Past President – Virginia L. Hood, MBBS, MPH, MACP
- Immediate Past Chair, Board of Regents – Yul D. Ejnes, MD, MACP
- President-elect – Molly Cooke, MD, FACP
- Chair-elect, Board of Regents – Charles Cutler, MD, FACP
- EVP/CEO - Steven E. Weinberger, MD, FACP
President, 2012-2013 -
David L. Bronson, MD, FACP
David L. Bronson, MD, FACP, is the President of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization. Dr. Bronson’s term began during Internal Medicine 2012, ACP’s annual scientific meeting in New Orleans, La., April 19-21.
Dr. Bronson previously served as President-elect, a position he began in April 2011, before transitioning to President of ACP. Dr. Bronson was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) in 1994. FACP is an honorary designation that recognizes ongoing individual service and contributions to the practice of medicine. Dr. Bronson served on the Board of Regents since 2009 and was Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Governor from 2008-2009. He was Governor of the Ohio Chapter in addition to serving on the Governor's Advisory Committee., where he was then elected Chair of the Board of Governors. Dr. Bronson has also been a reviewer for Annals of Internal Medicine and an ACP Journal Club commentator.
Dr. Bronson earned a medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He completed residencies at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Vermont, where he served as chief resident. Board-certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, Dr. Bronson's research interests include delirium, clinical prediction instruments, smoking cessation, patient education, and other issues in primary care practice.
Dr. Bronson is President of the Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals. He is also a professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Bronson joined the Cleveland Clinic in 1992 as chairman of the department of general internal medicine prior to chairing the division of medical regional practice from 1995-2007. Additionally, from 2007-2010 Dr. Bronson held the position of chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute.
Outside of his ACP activities, Dr. Bronson serves the Board of Commissioners of the Joint Commission, where he chairs the Accreditation Committee, and the AHA Health Systems Governing Council. He serves on the board of Better Health Greater Cleveland, and is a member of SGIM. Dr. Bronson has also served as a member of several National Board of Medical Examiner committees. He currently sits on many Cleveland Clinic boards and was co-chair of the Greater Cleveland United Way campaign in 2003, and is a member of the Cleveland Play House Board of Directors.
Chair, Board of Regents, 2012-2013 -
Phyllis A. Guze, MD, FACP
Phyllis A. Guze, MD, FACP, is 2012-2013 Chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP). She was elected to the ACP Board of Governors in 2004 and she became a Regent in 2008. Dr. Guze took office at Internal Medicine 2012, ACP’s annual scientific meeting in New Orleans, La., April 19-21.
Dr. Guze has been a Fellow of ACP (FACP) since 1980. FACP is an honorary designation that recognizes ongoing individual service and contributions to the practice of medicine. She has served ACP as part of the Governor’s Advisory Committee, as a member of the Health and Pubic Policy Committee and as vice-chair and chair of the Education Committee.
Dr. Guze has been on the Board of Regents, which is the main policymaking body of ACP, since 2008. She is also former Governor of the Southern California Region I Chapter as part of the ACP Board of Governors. Dr. Guze was previously serving as Chair-elect, a position which began in April 2011, before transitioning to the Chair of the Board of Regents.
Board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, Dr. Guze is a graduate of the State University of New York, Cortland, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree. Dr. Guze earned her Master of Science degree in anatomy and physiology from Indiana University, Bloomington and her medical degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. She also completed an internship and residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif.
Dr. Guze is currently the associate vice chancellor of Health Affairs and senior executive dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside. Additionally, Dr. Guze has been a professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine since 1985. She has previously held the position of acting vice chancellor of Medical Sciences and dean of the UCR School of medicine. She was chair of medicine at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and Executive Vice Chair Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA from 1986-2005.
In addition to her involvement with ACP, Dr. Guze has served as President of the Association of VA Chiefs of Medicine and President of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. She has also been a member of the University of California Office of the President Central Valley PRIME Program Taskforce.
Throughout her career, Dr. Guze has received numerous teaching awards such as the UCLA School of Medicine Outstanding Teacher Award, the UCLA Harriet & Charles Gluckman Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Distinguished Teacher Award. She has also been involved with consulting projects regarding computerized medical records with the UCLA Center for Health Sciences from 2002-2005 and curricular planning and development of a four-year medical school with UC Riverside.
Treasurer, 2012-2013 -
Dennis R. Schaberg, MD, MACP
Dennis R. Schaberg, MD, MACP, is the Treasurer of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization. As Treasurer, Dr. Schaberg chairs the Financial Policy and Audit Committee and serves ex officio on the ACP Board of Regents. Dr. Schaberg is serving a three-year term in this position until 2013.
Dr. Schaberg was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP) in 2004 for outstanding contributions to medicine. The awards committee called him “a consummate clinician and superb clinical teacher.” He was a member of the Association of Professors of Medicine and formerly chaired the department of internal medicine at the University of Tennessee. Additionally, he was named a Laureate of the ACP Tennessee Chapter for 2002. Laureate awards honor local Fellows or Masters of ACP who have demonstrated a long-term commitment to excellence in medical care, education, or research, or who have provided service to their community, chapter, and the American College of Physicians.
Board-certified in internal medicine, Dr. Schaberg is a graduate of the University Of Missouri Columbia School Of Medicine. He completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Washington and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Schaberg completed fellowship training in infectious diseases at the University of Washington. As former chair of the department of internal medicine of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Dr. Schaberg was also executive vice-chair for Affiliated Programs and a clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
In addition to being the ACP’s current treasurer, Dr. Schaberg has chaired the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Committee on Peer/Patient Assessment from 2000 to 2002 and served on the ABIM board of directors from 1998 to 2002. He also served on the American Board of Family Medicine from 2003 to 2008. Dr. Schaberg was on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s residency review committee for internal medicine.
Dr. Schaberg was a staff physician on the medical service of Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich., from 1987 to 1993, and was associate chair for graduate medical education at the University of Michigan from 1986 to 1993. During that time, he was an associate professor of epidemiology in the university’s school of public health and was a councilor for the ACP Michigan Chapter.
Immediate Past President, 2012-2013 -
Virginia L. Hood, MBBS, MPH, MACP
Virginia L. Hood, MBBS, MPH, MACP, is the 2012-2013 Immediate-Past President of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization. She took office as President in 2011, and her term as Immediate Past President began at Internal Medicine 2012, ACP’s annual scientific meeting in New Orleans, La., April 19-21.
Most recently, Dr. Hood became a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP) at Internal Medicine 2012. Levels of membership in ACP are Medical Student, Associate, Member, Fellow, Honorary Fellow, and Master. Election to Mastership recognizes outstanding and extraordinary career accomplishments. Masters must have made a notable contribution to medicine. This includes, but is not limited to: teaching, outstanding work in clinical medicine (research or practice), contributions to preventive medicine, improvements in the delivery of health care, and/or contributions to the medical literature.
She was elected to the ACP Board of Regents in 2005 and re-elected in 2008. She was also named president-elect in 2010. She served on the board of the ACP Foundation and previously served as the chair of the ACP Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee from 2008-2010. Dr. Hood was chair of the ACP International Subcommittee, now the International Council, from 2007-2009, chaired the Awards Committee, served on the Scientific Program Committee and is an ex officio member of the ACP Membership Committee. Dr. Hood also served as ACP Governor for the Vermont Chapter and in 2003 she was named a Laureate of the Vermont Chapter.
A medical graduate of the University of Sydney, Dr. Hood completed a residency at Mater Misericordiae Hospital. She completed her first two years of fellowship training in nephrology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and her third year at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont. In 1993 she received a master’s degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Hood is currently a professor of medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and an attending physician at Fletcher Allen Health Care with clinical, teaching and research responsibilities.
Dr. Hood cares for patients with end-stage renal disease, renal, blood pressure and fluid, and electrolyte disorders. She teaches acid-base physiology, epidemiology, ethics and internal medicine to medical students, residents and community physicians. Her scholarly activity has included basic science research in acid-base metabolism, clinical research in lactic acid and ketoacid metabolism, health promotion research in diabetes prevention, and outcomes research for blood pressure control.
Dr. Hood is chair of the Residents’ Research and Scholarly Activity Committee at Fletcher Allen Health Care, a position she has held since 1995. She served as acting unit director of nephrology at the University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Health Care, in 1991 and 1993. From 1980 to 1991, she was the General Clinical Research Center’s assistant program director and from 1983 to 1984 was acting program director. Other activities at Fletcher Allen Health Care have included service on its Executive Committee and its Diabetes Center Task Force.
Dr. Hood has served in an advisory capacity to the State of Vermont’s health care programs as a member of the Drug Utilization Review Board in the Office of Vermont Health Care Access (Medicaid). Additionally, she worked with the Vermont Department of Health as a member of the Diabetes Surveillance Committee, Healthy Vermonters 2010 Heart Disease Workgroup and Ladies First Program. She contributed to developing and updating the guidelines for Management of Diabetes (renal and blood pressure sections) for the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care.
Immediate Past Chair, Board of Regents, 2012-2013 - Yul D. Ejnes MD, MACP
Yul D. Ejnes, MD, MACP, is the 2012-2013 Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization. He served as Chair in 2011-2012 and became Immediate Past Chair at Internal Medicine 2012, ACP’s annual scientific meeting in New Orleans, La., April 19-21.
Dr. Ejnes has been a member of ACP since 1989. Most recently, Dr. Ejnes became a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP) at Internal Medicine 2012. Levels of membership in ACP are Medical Student, Associate, Member, Fellow, Honorary Fellow, and Master. Election to Mastership recognizes outstanding and extraordinary career accomplishments. Masters must have made a notable contribution to medicine. This includes, but is not limited to: teaching, outstanding work in clinical medicine (research or practice), contributions to preventive medicine, improvements in the delivery of health care, and/or contributions to the medical literature.
He served as Rhode Island transitional Chapter Governor from 1998 to 2000, after the merger of ACP and the American Society of Internal Medicine. He served as ACP Governor for the Rhode Island Chapter from 2002-2006 and was elected class representative for the Governors Class of 2006. For each year of his term as Governor, the Rhode Island earned the ACP Chapter Management Award. In 2000 and 2002, his chapter received the ACP Evergreen Award in the advocacy category. Dr. Ejnes was honored with the ACP Key Contact Award in 2000 and 2003. He was elected chair of the ACP Board of Governors for 2006-2007.
Dr. Ejnes has been a member of the ACP Nominations, Strategic Planning, Finance, and Marketing and Communications Committees. He also served as vice-chair of the ACP Health and Public Policy Committee from 2004-2005.
Board-certified in internal medicine, Dr. Ejnes received his medical degree from Brown University. After completing his residency at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, he entered a private internal medicine practice in Cranston, R.I.
An internist in practice at Coastal Medical Inc., Dr. Ejnes is a clinical associate professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. He is also on staff in the department of medicine at Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Ejnes has served as chair of both the ACP Medical Service Committee and the ACP Bylaws Committee. The Medical Service Committee makes recommendations on improving payment, coverage, coding, documentation, and medical review policies.
In addition to his involvement with ACP, Dr. Ejnes was president of the Rhode Island Society of Internal Medicine in 1997-98 and was past president of the Rhode Island Medical Society in 2001-02. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Rhode Island Quality Institute since 2003 and is currently serving as Chair. Dr. Ejnes is a member of the Admission Advisory Committee, Program in Liberal Medical Education, at Brown University and was a member of the Clinical Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee at Brown Medical School from 2000 to 2007.
President-elect, 2012-2013 -
Molly Cooke, MD, FACP
Molly Cooke, MD, FACP, is President-elect of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation's second-largest physician organization. Her term began during Internal Medicine 2012, ACP’s annual scientific meeting, in New Orleans, La., April 19-21.
Dr. Cooke has been a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) since 1986. FACP is an honorary designation that recognizes ongoing individual service and contributions to the practice of medicine. Additionally, she has served on the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians since 2010. The Board of Regents is the main policymaking body of ACP.
Dr. Cooke is a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, where in March 2012 she was appointed Director of Education for Global Health Sciences. She is an author of Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency, published in 2010, and was the recipient in 2006 of the AOA Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award, a national award given by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Cooke's medical practice focuses on the care of patients with HIV and other chronic illnesses. Her major professional contributions include seminal works in HIV ethics during the early years of the epidemic. More recently she has made advancements in medical education, establishing The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, a professional development program in the school of medicine at UCSF.
Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Cooke is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed her internal medicine residency at UCSF. She has been active in the educational, advocacy and governance activities of ACP both regionally and nationally. She has served on the board of the All-California ACP Services organization, which works with the legislature to advance the interests of internists and patients in California and served as well as Vice-Chair of the ACP Health and Public Policy Committee.
Chair-elect, Board of Regents, 2012-2013 –
Charles Cutler, MD, FACP
Charles Cutler, MD, FACP, is the 2012-2013 Chair-elect of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization. Dr. Cutler’s new term began during Internal Medicine 2012, ACP’s annual scientific meeting in New Orleans, La., April 19-21.
Dr. Cutler has been a Fellow of ACP since 1994. FACP is an honorary designation that recognizes ongoing individual service and contributions to the practice of medicine. He has been active in the advocacy and governance activities of ACP both regionally and nationally. He previously served as governor of ACP’s Southeastern Pennsylvania chapter and as a member of ACP’s Health and Public Policy Committee.
Dr. Cutler has been of a member of the ACP’s Governing Council for Pennsylvania since 2002 and the Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee Representative from Pennsylvania since 2004. He was a member of the Executive Committee of ACP’s Board of Governors from 2006-2008. Dr. Cutler’s publication credits include co-authoring “Achieving a High-Performance Health Care System with Universal Access: What the United States Can Learn from Other Countries,” published in Annals of Internal Medicine in January 2008.
Board-certified in internal medicine, Dr. Cutler has been a full-time practicing internist in Norristown, Pa., since completing his residency in 1977. He is a member of Fornance Physicians, a multi-specialty group practice consisting of 85 doctors. From 1996-2002, Dr. Cutler was a clinical associate at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former board member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society and is currently a board member of the Montgomery County Medical Society.
Dr. Cutler was chair of the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Montgomery County from 2003-2006. He served as President of Victim Services Center of Montgomery County for two terms from 2002-2004 and currently is a member of its Board of Directors. After earning his undergraduate degree from LaSalle College maxima cum laude in 1970 and his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in 1974, Dr. Cutler completed his internship and residency training at Temple University Hospital.
.Executive Vice President and Chief Executive -
Steven E. Weinberger, MD, FACP
Steven Weinberger, MD, FACP, became Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP) in July 2010. ACP is the largest medical specialty organization in the U.S., representing 132,000 specialists, subspecialists and medical students in internal medicine. ACP’s mission is to foster excellence and professionalism in medicine. Previously, Dr. Weinberger served as Deputy Executive Vice President and Senior Vice President for Medical Education and Publishing of the College. An internist and pulmonologist, Dr. Weinberger is an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Dr. Weinberger has been a Fellow (FACP) of ACP since 1988. He is the recipient of numerous Harvard Medical School teaching awards. In 2001, he received the Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from Alpha Omega Alpha and the Association of American Medical Colleges, and in 2008 he received the Clinical Educator Award from the American Thoracic Society Clinical Problems Assembly.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Weinberger completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in pulmonary medicine at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Prior to joining ACP, Dr. Weinberger served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 25 years. He was executive vice chair of the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, executive director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, and professor of medicine and faculty associate dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Weinberger authored a popular textbook, Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, now in its fifth edition and available in several languages. He has written numerous original and review articles as well as multiple chapters for the leading textbooks of internal medicine, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine. He was editor of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine section of the American College of Physicians’ Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program 10(MKSAP). He served on the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine from 1992 to 2000, and, prior to joining ACP, was Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine editor-in-chief for UpToDate.
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