The following national officers, Fellow-at-Large, and Public Member were elected at the Annual Business Meeting on May 5, 2008, with Dr. Douglas H. Kirkpatrick becoming President.

President Elect

Gerald F. Joseph Jr, MD
Ponchatoula, LA

Professional Position
Senior consultant in gynecology, Ochsner Health Center, Covington, LA; clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Louisiana State University and Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Education
n MD: Tulane University, New Orleans
n RESIDENCY: Louisiana State University

ACOG Activities
n NATIONAL: member, Council of District Chairs; member, Executive Board; chair, Committee on Scientific Program; member, committees on Gynecologic Practice, Nominations, Long-Range Planning, Credentials, Continuing Medical Education; chair, task forces on Enhancing Practice Satisfaction, District and Section Contributions; member, task forces on Abortion, Nominations Process (2), Scope of Practice, Medical Student Recruitment, Committees; member, Grievance Committee's Appeals Panel Committee; Executive Board liaison to Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine board; member, medical advisory board for Managing Menopause/pause® magazine
n DISTRICT VII: chair; vice chair; secretary-treasurer; scientific program chair; Louisiana Section chair, vice chair, secretary-treasurer; member, Missouri Section Advisory Council

Vice President

Iffath Abbasi Hoskins, MD
Brooklyn, NY

Professional Position
Senior vice president, chair, and residency director, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Education
n MD: Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan
n RESIDENCY: National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

ACOG Activities
n NATIONAL: assistant secretary; member, Executive Board; member, committees on Obstetric Practice, Health Care for Underserved Women; member, Grievance Committee; member, Task Force on Governance; member, PROLOG Task Force on Obstetrics fourth edition; member, Clinical Document Review Panel; liaison to American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs; liaison to Society for Perinatal Obstetricians; liaison to American College of Surgeons; ACOG delegate to AMA
n DISTRICT II: secretary; member, Advisory Council; chair, scientific program for Annual District Meeting; chair, Committee for Underserved Women; member, committees on Professional Liability, Legislative, Nominations; Junior Fellow co-advisor

Assistant Secretary

Paul A. Gluck, MD
Miami

Professional Position
Private group practice; clinical associate professor, University of Miami

Education
n MD: New York University
n RESIDENCY: University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital

ACOG Activities
n NATIONAL: director, Voluntary Review of Quality of Care program; chair, Committee on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety; member, committees on Course Coordination, Nominations; chair, Task Force on Safety in Resident Education; chair, Subcommittee on Patient Safety; ex officio member, Committee on Professional Liability; participant, ACOG Patient Safety Summit; ACOG alternate delegate to AMA
n DISTRICT IV: member, Advisory Council; member, Professional Liability Committee; chair, local arrangements for Annual District Meeting; recipient, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Section Award; recipient, ACOG President's Community Service Award; district Junior Fellow chair, vice chair, secretary-treasurer; Florida Section chair, vice chair, Junior Fellow vice chair; chair, Florida Section Professional Liability Committee

Fellow-at-Large (2-year term)

Dane M. Shipp, MD
Encinitas, CA

Professional Position
Private group practice; chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Scripps Memorial Hospital, Encinitas

Education
n MD: University of Alabama at Birmingham
n RESIDENCY: University of California San Francisco-Fresno

ACOG Activities
n NATIONAL: member, Committee on Legislation; ACOG-American College of Surgeons Junior Fellow liaison; ACM Resident Reporter; participant, ACOG Future Leaders in Ob-Gyn Conference
n DISTRICT IX: young Fellow representative; member, committees on Business of Medicine, Nominations, State Legislation; newsletter editor; district Junior Fellow chair, vice chair; Section 3 Junior Fellow chair, vice chair

Public Member (2-year term)

Susan C. Del Pesco, JD
Hockessin, DE

Professional Position
Judge on the Superior Court of Delaware (retiring in June)

Education
n MASTER OF LAW IN JUDICIAL PROCESS: University of Virginia
n JD: Widener University, Chester, PA

Current and Former Activities
Admitted to the Delaware bar in 1975; worked in civil litigation with the fi rm of Prickett, Jones, Eliott, Kristol and Schnee, becoming partner in 1982; fi rst woman elected to serve as president of the Delaware State Bar Association; fi rst woman to be appointed as a judge of the Delaware Superior Court; participant, project to build Delaware's fi rst drug treatment facility for incarcerated women; cochair, the Supreme Court's Gender Fairness Task Force; participant, several projects that serve the administration of justice, including implementation of the nation's fi rst litigation electronic fi ling system; adjunct professor, Widener University School of Law; member, Widener Law School's Board of Overseers for 20 years