President
Eugene P. Sinclair, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Chief of Anesthesia Service, Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

ASA Involvements: President-Elect (2004); Speaker of the House of Delegates (2000-02); Vice-Speaker (1994-99); Director (1987-93); Alternate Director (1984-86); Alternate Delegate (2004-present), AMA Section Council on Anesthesiology; Member, committees on Ambulatory Surgical Care, Bylaws, and Quality Improvement and Practice Management, and several task forces studying practice parameters, practice management and exclusive contracts; ASA Representative, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Ambulatory Health Care PTAC.

Affiliations: President (1974-75), Milwaukee Society of Anesthesiologists; Member, Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, International Anesthesia Research Society, Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists, Milwaukee Society of Anesthesiologists, State Medical Society of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Medical Society, American Institute of Parliamentarians and National Association of Parliamentarians.

Education and Honors: M.D., Marquette University School of Medicine; Residency, Milwaukee County General Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Veterans’ Administration Hospital, Wood, Wisconsin; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology; Fellow, American College of Anesthesiologists.

Personal Notes: Dr. Sinclair and his wife, Jean, have five children and reside in Elm Grove, Wisconsin.

Immediate Past President
Roger W. Litwiller, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Staff Anesthesiologist, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia.

ASA Involvements: President (2004); President-Elect (2003); First Vice-President (2002); Delegate (1986-90), Director (1991-01) and Chair of the Committee on Finance of the Board of Directors (1998-00); Chair, committees on Governmental Affairs (2001) and Physician Resources (1997-99); Chair, ASAPAC Executive Board (1991-97).

Affiliations: Member, Board of Directors (1984-present), Past President, President-Elect and Newsletter Editor, Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists; Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, VAMPAC; Delegate, House of Delegates, and Member, Legislative Committee and Neurologically Impaired Infant Bill Task Force, Medical Society of Virginia.

Education and Honors: M.D., University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida; Residency, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology; Fellow, American College of Anesthesiologists.

Personal Notes: Dr. Litwiller and his wife, Ona, live in Roanoke, Virginia.

President-Elect
Orin F. Guidry, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Department of Anesthesiology, Ochsner Clinic and Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana.

ASA Involvements: First Vice-President (2004); Treasurer (1999-03); Assistant Treasurer (1997-98); Director (1992-96); Alternate Director (1988-91); Alternate Delegate (2003-present), AMA Section Council on Anesthesiology; Chair, committees on Governmental Affairs (1989-91), Legislative Review (1995-96) and Surgical Anesthesia (1994-96); Member, Board of Directors, ASA Political Action Committee and American Medical Association Section Council.

Affiliations: President (1981-82) and Secretary (1982-84), Mississippi Society of Anesthesiologists; Director and Chair (1984-89), Mississippi Medical Political Action Committee; Secretary-Treasurer (1998-03), Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research; Director, American Board of Anesthesiology.

Education and Honors: M.D. and Residency (general surgery), Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; Residency (anesthesiology), University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi; Diplomate, Certificate of Recertification and Certificate of Special Qualifications in Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology; Fellow, American College of Anesthesiologists.

Personal Notes: Dr. Guidry and his wife, Nancy, reside in New Orleans, Louisiana.

First Vice-President
Mark J. Lema, M.D., Ph.D.

Professional Appointments: Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, and Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

ASA Involvements: Member, Board of Directors (2002-04); Alternate Delegate (1991-94) and Delegate (1995-2004), House of Delegates; Alternate Delegate (2004-present), AMA Section Council on Anesthesiology; Chair, Committee on Newsletter (1997-03); member, committees on Panels (1994-97), Pain Medicine (1994-99), Communications (1997-03) and CME Strategic Planning (2003-present); ASA NEWSLETTER Editor (1997-03).

Affiliations: Vice-President (1999), President-Elect (2000), President (2001) and Past President (2002), New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA); Vice-President (2002), President-Elect (2003), President (2004) and Past President (2005) of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine; member, Board of Directors of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (2002-present).

Education and Honors: M.D., State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, Harvard School of Public Health Program for Chiefs of Clinical Services and Harvard School of Public Health Advanced Program for Chiefs of Clinical Services; Residency, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Boston, Massachusetts; National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellowship, Department of Physiology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY); Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY (Physiology).

Personal Information: Dr. Lema and his wife, Suzanne, live in East Amherst, New York. They have three adult children.

Vice-President for Scientific Affairs
Bruce F. Cullen, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona.

ASA Involvements: Delegate (1986-04), Alternate Delegate (1983-86), Alternate Director for Arizona (1989-04); Chair, Western Caucus (2000-04); Chair, Section on Society Subspecialties (2003-04), Section on Annual Meeting (2002), committees on Scientific Papers (1999-00), Refresher Courses (1998-99) and Annual Meeting Review (2002-03); Vice-Chair of the Section on Education and Research (2000-03) and Section on Annual Meeting (2001).

Affiliations: President (1984), President-Elect (1983-84), Vice-President (1982-83), Secretary-Treasurer (1980-83) and Director (1985-89), Arizona Society of Anesthesiologists; Member, Board of Directors of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (1996-present), Senior Associate Examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology (1995-present); President (2004), President-Elect (2003) and Vice-President (2002), Academy of Anesthesiology.

Education and Honors: M.D., University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri; Resident in Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital; Anesthesiology Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Personal Notes: Dr. Otto and his wife, Carol, live in Tucson, Arizona, and have two children.

Vice-President for Professional Affairs
Alexander A. Hannenberg, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Associate Chair, Department of Anesthesia, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts, and Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesia, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

ASA Involvements: Member, House of Delegates (1987-03); Chair, Committee on Economics (2002-03); Chair, Board of Directors Committee on Administrative Affairs (2002-03); Director, former District 2 (Massachusetts) (1997-02).

Affiliations: Vice-President for Professional Affairs (2003-present); Secretary (1987-93), Vice-President, President-Elect, President (1993-96), Executive Committee (1984-present) and Chair, Committee on Economics (1988-present), Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists; Member, House of Delegates (1996-present), Committee on Professional Liability (2003), Massachusetts Medical Society; American Board of Anesthesiology Associate Examiner (2003-present); AMA Relative Value Update Committee ASA Representative (1997-03); Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Board of Directors (2002-present); Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Board of Directors (2004-present).

Education and Honors: M.D., Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts; Internship in Medicine, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital of Boston; Residency and Chief Resident, Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology.

Personal Notes: Dr. Hannenberg and his wife, Carol, also a physician, live in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and have two daughters. He is the Founder and Coordinator of the Boston Marathon Runners Injury Clinic.

Secretary
Peter L. Hendricks, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center East, Birmingham, Alabama.

ASA Involvements: Secretary (2003-present); Assistant Secretary (2000-02); Director (1996-99); Chair, Committee on Anesthesia Care Team (1996-97); Member, committees on Ethics, Governmental Affairs, Standards of Care, Professional Liability, Economics; Member, House of Delegates Reference Committee and Board of Directors Review Committee.

Affiliations: Alternate Director (1991-97); President (1988-89) and Secretary/Treasurer (1986-88), Alabama State Society of Anesthesiologists; Member, International Anesthesia Research Society, Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.

Education and Honors: M.D., University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Residency, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland; Fellowship (pediatric anesthesia) Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology.

Personal Notes: Dr. Hendricks and his wife, Lynn, have three children and reside in Birmingham, Alabama.

Assistant Secretary
Gregory K. Unruh, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Associate Professor and Director, Anesthesiology Resident Education, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas.

ASA Involvements: Assistant Secretary (2003-present); Chair, committees on Clinical Forum (1998-02), Physician Resources (1999-02) and the Board of Directors Committee on Scientific Affairs (2001-02); Member, committees on Outreach Education and Information Management; State Delegate, ASA Legislative Conference (1989-present); Secretary, Midwest Caucus (2000-02); Director, former District 17 (Kansas and Missouri) (1995-02).

Affiliations: Past President (1996-98), President (1994-96), Treasurer (1990-92) and Legislative Committee (2000-present), Kansas Society of Anesthesiologists; President (1992-93), Vice-President (1991-92), Treasurer (1989-90) and Secretary (1988-89), Kansas City Society of Anesthesiologists; Alternate Delegate (1997), Delegate (1995-96), Governing Council (1994-96) and Chair, Annual Meeting Reference Committee (1999), Kansas Medical Society.

Education and Honors: M.D., University of Kansas School of Medicine; Internship (internal medicine), Residency (internal medicine) and Residency (anesthesiology), Kansas University Medical Center; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology; Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners.

Personal Notes: Dr. Unruh and his wife, Bonnie, live in Olathe, Kansas, with their three children.

Treasurer
Roger A. Moore, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Chair Emeritus of Anesthesia, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey, and Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey.

ASA Involvements: Treasurer (2004-present); Assistant Treasurer (1999-03); Director (1995-98); Alternate Director (1992-94); Member, Board Committee on Scientific Affairs (1996-98); Secretary-Treasurer (1996-99), Member, ASA Political Action Committee (1991-99); Member, committees on Communications, Newsletter and Ambulatory Surgical Care.

Affiliations: President (1989-91), Vice-President (1987-89) and Chair, Judicial Committee (1987-present), New Jersey State Society of Anesthesiologists; Vice-President (1996-98) and Secretary-Treasurer (1995-96), Mid-Atlantic Caucus; President (2001-03); Vice-President (1999-01) and Secretary-Treasurer (1994-98), Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists; Chair, Anesthesia Section (1984-85), Secretary, Anesthesia Section (1983-84), Medical Society of New Jersey; Fellow (1982-98), American Academy of Pediatrics; Associate Oral Board Examiner - Senior (1996-02), Examination Question Writer (1986-02), American Board of Anesthesiology; Treasurer (1999-present), New Jersey State Society of Anesthesiologists Political Action Committee.

Education and Honors: M.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Residency, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Fellowship (pediatric anesthesia and intensive care), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology.

Personal Notes: Dr. Moore and his wife, Jonni, have two children and reside in Moorestown, New Jersey.

Assistant Treasurer
John M. Zerwas, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Founding Member and President (1996-00), Greater Houston Anesthesiology, PA, Houston, Texas; Senior Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (2003-present).

ASA Involvements: Assistant Treasurer (2004-present); Texas District Director (2002-03); Delegate (2004-present), Alternate Delegate (2000-03), AMA Section Council on Anesthesiology; Chair, committees on Governmental Affairs (2001-03) and Quality Management and Departmental Administration (1998-01), Anesthesia Consultation Program (1997-03), Annual Meeting Reference Committee 3 (1999, 2003); Member, ASAPAC Executive Board (1998-04), Committee on Practice Management (1998-03), Committee on Quality Management and Departmental Administration (1996-04).

Affiliations: President (1996-97), President-Elect (1995-96), Treasurer (1993-95), Texas Society of Anesthesiologists; Chair, Nominating Committee (1998), Legislative Affairs (1990-94/1997-00); Member, Nominating Committee (1995-present), Committee on Administrative Affairs (1997-99), Legislative Affairs (1990-present); President (1992), Treasurer (1989-91), Texas Gulf Coast Anesthesia Society; Director (1998-present), Treasurer (2002-03), President-Elect (2003-04), President (2004-present), Texas Healthcare Trustees; Treasurer (2000-present), Association for Anesthesiologist Assistants Education.

Education and Honors: M.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Anesthesiology Residency and Internship/Residency in Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology.

Personal Notes: Dr. Zerwas and his wife, Cynthia, live in Richmond, Texas, and have four children.

Speaker of the House of Delegates
Candace E. Keller, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Private Practice Anesthesiologist.

ASA Involvements: Speaker (2003-present) and Vice-Speaker of the House of Delegates (2000-02); Alternate Director (1991-99); Alternate Delegate (2004-present), AMA Section Council on Anesthesiology; Member, committees on Quality Management and Departmental Administration, Performance and Outcomes Management, Membership, Physician Resources, Professional Diversity, Anesthesia Care Team, Young Physicians Liaison Committee to AMA.

Affiliations: Mississippi Society of Anesthesiologists President (1995), President-Elect (1994) and Secretary (1986-89); President (2000-01), President-Elect (1999-00), Secretary-Treasurer (1994-98), Mississippi State Medical Association; Delegate (1999-03) and Alternate Delegate (1992-98) to AMA House of Delegates; Delegate to AMA Young Physicians Section (1989-91); Member (1992-97) and Co-Chair (1995-97), AMA Women in Medicine Advisory Panel; Member, American Institute of Parliamentarians.

Education and Honors: M.D., University of Mississippi School of Medicine; M.P.H., Harvard University School of Public Health; Residency (general surgery), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi; Residency (anesthesiology), University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology.

Personal Notes: Dr. Keller lives in Miramar Beach, Florida.

Vice-Speaker of the House of Delegates
John P. Abenstein, M.D.

Professional Appointments: Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Medical School, Faculty Member of the Biomedical Engineering Program, Mayo Graduate School, and Consultant for the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

ASA Involvements: Vice-Speaker of the House of Delegates (2003-present); Alternate District Director (1998-02), Delegate (1996-02), Member, Reference Committee (1998, 2000, 2001) and committees on Governmental Affairs and Equipment and Facilities.

Affiliations: President (1997-98), President-Elect (1996-97), Vice-President (1995-96), Secretary-Treasurer (1992-95) and Executive Committee (1992-present), Minnesota Society of Anesthesiologists; State Delegate, ASA Legislative Conference (1996-present); Political Action Committee (2000-present) and Chair, Reference Committee (1999), Minnesota Medical Association.

Education and Honors: M.D., Loyola Stritch School of Medicine; Internship, Residency and Fellowship (cardiac anesthesiology), Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology; Certified Parliamentarian, American Institute of Parliamentarians.

Personal Notes: Dr. Abenstein and his wife, Sandra, live in Oronoco, Minnesota, and have a daughter and a son.