CIR's History: A Timeline of Presidents
The table below is a timeline of the dedicated doctors who have served as President throughout CIR's history. Each contributed toward building CIR into the growing and dynamic organization it is today.
|
Name
|
Term
|
Hospital
|
Specialty
|
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Luella Toni Lewis, MD
|
2007 -
|
Caritas Health Care
|
Geriatrics
|
|
Simon Ahtaridis, MD,MPH
|
2006 - 2007
|
Cambridge Hospital
|
Internal Medicine
|
|
Barbie Gatton, MD
|
2004 - 2006
|
Methodist
|
Emergency Medicine
|
|
Ruth Potee, MD
|
2002-2004
|
Boston Med. Center
|
Family Practice
|
|
Ladi Haroona, MD
|
1998-2001
|
Kings County/HHC
|
Pulmonary/CC
|
|
Angela Moore, MD
|
1995-1998
|
Harlem/HHC
|
Radiology
|
|
Faidherbe Ceus, MD
|
1993-1995
|
Harlem/HHC
|
Internal Medicine
|
|
Daniel Lawlor, MD
|
1992-1993
|
Bronx Lebanon
|
Family Practice
|
|
David Kerrison, MD
|
1991-1992
|
Kings County/HHC
|
Anesthesia
|
|
Shelley Falik, MD
|
1989-1991
|
Metropolitan/HHC
|
Cardiology
|
|
Robert Schwartz, MD
|
1988-1989
|
Kings County/HHC
|
Psychiatry
|
|
Janet Freedman, MD
|
1986-1988
|
Bellevue/NYU
|
M&R
|
|
James Mclntosh, MD
|
1984-1986
|
Harlem/HHC
|
Psychiatry
|
|
Terry Fitzgerald, MD
|
1982-1984
|
Lincoln/HHC
|
Emergency Medicine
|
|
Jonathan House, MD
|
1979-1982
|
Harlem/HHC
|
Internal Medicine
|
|
Michael Schoolman, MD
|
1978-1979
|
Met/Flower/Coler
|
Internal Medicine
|
|
Lawrence Boxt, MD
|
1977-1978
|
Met/Flower/Coler
|
Radiology
|
|
Jay Dobkin, MD
|
1975-1977
|
Montefiore
|
Medicine
|
|
Richard Knutson, MD
|
1974-1975
|
|
Orthopedics
|
|
Edgar Mandeville, MD
|
1973-1974
|
Harlem/HHC
|
Ob/Gyn
|
|
Stephen Baker, MD
|
1972-1973
|
Bronx Municipal/HHC
|
Radiology
|
|
Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
|
1970-1972
|
Lincoln/HHC
|
Pediatrics
|
|
Samuel Rosenthal, MD
|
1969-1970
|
Bellevue/HHC
|
Internal Medicine
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eugene Thiessen, MD
|
1961-1963
|
Bellevue
|
Surgery
|
|
|
|
|
|
Saran Jonas, MD
|
1958-1959
|
Bellevue
|
Neurology
|
|
Herbert Vaughan, MD
|
1957-1958
|
Bronx Municipal Hospital Center
|
Neurology
|
* A number of independent housestaff associations in New Jersey, Washington DC, Massachusetts, and California affiliated with CIR and played major roles in making CIR a national union. Each of those local organizations had it’s own history, but their leadership names are not reflected on this list. Unfortunately, many documents have been lost that would be needed to reconstruct their stories prior to their affiliation with CIR.
** Similarly, CIR switched attorneys in 1972, and most files before that time were lost in the CIRrestructuring of that period. For that reason, there are gaps in ourknowledge. If you can help fill in missing information or see anyerrors, please email
mailto:info@cirseiu.org
.