Daniel J. Diekema, MD, D(ABMM), FACP - President

• Vice Chair for Research
• Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Department of Medicine
• Maine Medical Center-MaineHealth
• Portland, ME

Helen W. Boucher, MD, FACP, FIDSA - Immediate Past-President

• Dean
• Professor of Medicine
• Tufts University School of Medicine
• Chief Academic Officer, Tufts Medicine
• Boston, Massachusettes

A.W. Karchmer, MD - Secretary/Treasurer

• Professor of Medicine/Harvard Medical School
• Former Chief, Infectious Diseases
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Boston, Massachusetts

Richard P. Wenzel, MD, MSc

• Professor and Former Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
• Medical College of Virginia
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Richmond, Virginia

Paul G Auwaerter, MD, MBA, FIDSA

• Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Professor of Medicine
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine                               
  
• Baltimore, Maryland​

 Carlos del Rio, MD

• Carlos del Rio, MD

• Distinguished Professor of Medicine
• Emory University School of Medicine
• Atlanta, Georgia

Debra A. Goff, Pharm.D. FIDSA, FCCP

• Professor of Pharmacy Practice
• Global Antibiotic Stewardship
• The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
• Columbus, Ohio 

Kimberly E. Hanson, MD, MHS

• Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology
• University of Utah School of Medicine
• Salt Lake City, UT
  

Carl LeBuhn, MD

• Baptist Health Paducah
  
• Lourdes Hospital Paducah
  
• Continue Care Hospital at Baptist Health Paducah
  
• Paducah Independent Schools Board of Education
  
• Paducah, KY

 

Barbara E. Murray, MD - In Memoriam

• J. Ralph Meadows Professor of Medicine
  
• Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
  
• Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
  
• Houston, TX

In Memoriam: Dr. Barbara E. Murray: A leading authority on the role of enterococci and S. aureus in infectious diseases from the bench to the bedside, Barbara E. Murray, MD, FIDSA, died April 11, 2024. A recipient of IDSA’s Alexander Fleming Award for lifetime achievement in 2017, Dr. Murray was president of the Society from 2013 to 2014 and served on the IDSA Board of Directors in multiple roles, including as treasurer and as secretary. In 1996, she was an IDSA Maxwell Finland Lecturer. Dr. Murray was the J. Ralph Meadows Professor in Internal Medicine at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, where she was a mentor to countless generations of microbiologists and ID physicians.