Voting members of the AANS elected the association’s new Executive Committee on April 16 at the annual business meeting. Committee members took office at the conclusion of the 75th AANS Annual Meeting. The Executive Committee is composed of the president, president-elect, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and immediate past president. All officers serve one-year terms except the secretary and treasurer, who each serve a three-year term.
Jon H. Robertson, MD, is president of the AANS. An active member of the AANS since 1983, he has served on the AANS Board of Directors since 1999, most recently finishing a one-year term as president-elect and a three-year term as secretary. He served as chair of the Annual Meeting Committee in 1994. Dr. Robertson was named professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis in 1997. He has been a practicing member of the Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute since 1979.
Donald O. Quest, MD, was named past president of the AANS. A member of the AANS since 1979, he has served on the AANS Board of Directors as vice president (1994–1995), as Scientific Program Committee chair (1990–1991) and Annual Meeting chair (1991–1992). He was elected a director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1994, serving as secretary (1996–1999) and chair (1999–2000). He was elected to the Residency Review Committee for Neurological Surgery in 2000 and was chair from 2004 to 2005. He was president of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery from 2001 to 2002, and president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons from 1986 to 1987. He is the J. Lawrence Pool Professor of Neurological Surgery at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, N.Y.
James R. Bean, MD, is AANS president-elect. An active member of the AANS since 1988, Dr. Bean just completed a three-year term as AANS treasurer. He serves on the AANS Executive, Finance and Long-Range Planning committees, on the NREF Executive Council and on the NeurosurgeryPAC board of directors. He was editor of the AANS Bulletin from 2003 to 2005. He has been AANS appointee to the AANS/CNS Council of State Neurosurgical Societies since 1999. Dr. Bean currently is president of Neurosurgical Associates PSC in Lexington, Ky.
Troy M. Tippett, MD, FACS, is AANS vice president. A member of the AANS since 1979, he has served on the AANS Board of Directors and as chair of the AANS/CNS Washington Committee since 2004. Dr. Tippett received the Distinguished Service Award from the AANS in 2003. He has been in private practice and a member of the Neurosurgical Group in Pensacola, Fla., since 1976, and medical director of this practice since 1988.
James T. Rutka, MD, PhD, FRCS, is AANS secretary for the second year of a three-year term. An active member of the AANS since 1983, he has served on the AANS Board of Directors since 2003. He served as chair of the 2006 AANS Annual Meeting and as chair of the Scientific Program Committee in 2005. Dr. Rutka has been on the neurosurgical staff at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto since 1990. He is currently director of the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre. He was appointed chair of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto in 1998, and the Dan Family Chair in 1999. He has been professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto since 1999.
Paul C. McCormick, MD, is treasurer for the first year of a three-year term. An active member of the AANS since 1992, Dr. McCormick served on the AANS Board of Directors from 2002 to 2005. He was chair of the AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves from 2000 to 2001, and he served as chair of the 2001 AANS Annual Meeting and as chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2000 AANS Annual Meeting. Dr. McCormick has been on the staff at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center since 1990. In July 2006 he was appointed the Herbert and Linda Gallen Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.