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Cohn Rives Leadership
2025-2025 Officers
John Lyons III, MD
President
Summer Black, MD
President Elect
Malachi Sheahan III, MD
Secretary
Bruce Torrance III, MD
Treasurer
Executive Council:
Elyse Bevier-Rawls, MD
Amit Chawla, MD
James Craven IV, MD
Fabienne Gray, MD
London Guidry, MD
Ian Hodgdon, MD
John Morrison, Jr., MD
J. Patrick O'Leary, MD
Past Presidents of the Cohn-Rives Surgical Society
| Dr. Donald B. Williams* 1965-68 | Dr. Claude C. Craighead* 1969 |
| Dr. Lawrence H. Strug* 1970 | Dr. Leo H. Kuker* 1971 |
| Dr. W. Clif Payne, Jr.* 1972 | Dr. Merwin B. Moore, Jr. 1973 |
| Dr. Dominic J. Palmintier* 1974 | Dr. Samuel A. Romano* 1975 |
| Dr. E. Weeks Dauterive* 1976 | Dr. Joseph L. Powell, Jr.* 1977 |
| Dr. Philip C. Cenac* 1978 | Dr. Alfred V. Persson 1979 |
| Dr. Robert Turner 1980 | Dr. Edgar Feinberg* 1981 |
| Dr. Elmo Laborde 1982 | Dr. Robert Wynn 1983 |
| Dr. William Zink* 1984 | Dr. M. Bert Myers 1985 |
| Dr. Larry H. Hollier 1986 | Dr. Frank DiVincenti 1987 |
| Dr. Perry Sudduth* 1988 | Dr. Robert C. Batson 1989 |
| Dr. William Leon* 1990 | Dr. Isidore Cohn, Jr.* 1991 |
| Dr. Weston Miller 1992 | Dr. Rex Applewhite 1993 |
| Dr. Joe Moreland* 1994 | Dr. Raymond Calecas* 1995 |
| Dr. Robert Wynn 1996 | Dr. Mack A. Thomas 1997 |
| Dr. Victor Tedesco 1998 | Dr. Paul Hastings 1999 |
| Dr. James Nelson 2000 | Dr. W. Chapman Lee 2001 |
| Dr. Lester Wayne Johnson 2002 | Dr. Salem F. Sayegh* 2003 |
| Dr. Ben Sabbaghian 2004 | Dr. Mary Jo Wright 2005 |
| Dr. James Ingram 2006 | Dr. Charles W. Chappuis 2007 |
| Dr. Faith Hansbrough 2008 | Dr. J. Benton Dupont 2009 |
| Dr. David B. Kaplan 2010 | Dr. Daniel J. Frey 2011 |
| Dr. John Morrison 2012 | Dr. Cynthia Glass 2013 |
| Dr. James Patrick O'Leary 2014 | Dr. John Frusha 2015 |
| Dr. John Hunt 2016 | Dr. Lynn Harrison 2017 |
| Dr. Fritz Rau 2018 | Dr. J Philip Boudreaux 2019 |
| Dr. James Craven IV 2020—2022 | Dr. Bruce Torrance 2023 |
| Dr. Fabienne Gray 2024 | Seeyuen Lee, MD 2025 |
* Deceased