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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
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. For that reason, there are gaps in our knowledge. If you can help fill in missing information or see any errors, please email info@cirseiu.org .