| 2025-26 | Elango Edhayan, MBBS, FACS | Detroit |
| 2024-25 | Erin Perrone, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 2023-24 | Loay Kabbani, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 2022-23 | David S. Kwon, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 2021-22 | Kellie M. McFarlin, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 2020-21 | David Aaron Edelman, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 2019-20 | Ronald B. Hirschl, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 2018-19 | Lena M. Napolitano, MD FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 2017-18 | M. Ashraf Mansour, MD, FACS | Grand Rapids |
| 2016-17 | Craig Reickert, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 2015-16 | Wayne VanderKolk, MD, FACS | Grand Rapids |
| 2014-15 | Kurt A. Kralovich, MD, FACS | Dearborn |
| 2013‐14 | Donn M. Schroder, MD, FACS | Grosse Pointe |
| 2012‐13 | Vijay K. Mittal, MD, FACS | Southfield |
| 2011‐12 | Gerard M. Doherty, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 2010‐11 | James G. Tyburski, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 2009‐10 | John C. Eggenberger, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 2008‐09 | Michael K. McLeod, MD, FACS | Kalamazoo |
| 2007‐08 | Mark W. Puls, MD, FACS | Alpena |
| 2006‐07 | Michael W. Mulholland, MD, PhD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 2005‐06 | Daniel J. Reddy, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 2004‐05 | Donald J. Scholten, MD, FACS | Grand Rapids |
| 2003‐04 | Cheryl A. Wesen, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 2002‐03 | Farouck N. Obeid, MD, FACS | Flint |
| 2001‐02 | Verne L. Hoshal, Jr., MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 2000‐01 | Andrew W. Saxe, MD, FACS | Bloomfield Hills |
| 1999‐00 | Duane Freier, MD, FACS | Kalamazoo |
| 1998‐99 | Larry Lloyd, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1997‐98 | James C. Gruenberg, MD, FACS | Saginaw |
| 1996‐97 | Krishna K. Sawhney, MD, FACS | Farmington Hills |
| 1995‐96 | David G. Fromm, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1994‐95 | Lee R. Britton, MD, FACS | Alpena |
| 1993‐94 | Anna M. Ledgerwood, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1992‐93 | Lazar J. Greenfield, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1991‐92 | John A. Ingold, MD, FACS | Royal Oak |
| 1990‐91 | Angelos A. Kambouris, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1989‐90 | Allen Silbergleit, MD, PhD, FACS | Pontiac |
| 1988‐89 | Richard E. Dean, MD, FACS | East Lansing |
| 1987‐88 | Robert D. Allaben, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1986‐87 | Larry J. Robson, MD, FACS | Grand Rapids |
| 1985‐86 | Joseph C. Cerny, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1984‐85 | James C. Stanley, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1983‐84 | Robert J. Lucas, MD, FACS | Royal Oak |
| 1982‐83 | Charles E. Lucas, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1981‐82 | John H. McLaughlin, MD, FACS | Birmingham |
| 1980‐81 | Robert F. Wilson, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1979‐80 | Jeremiah G. Turcotte, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1978‐79 | Joseph P. Elliott, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1977‐78 | Frederick C. O’Dell, Jr., MD, FACS | Alpena |
| 1976‐77 | C. Glen Callander, MD, FACS | Kalamazoo |
| 1975‐76 | Courtland M. Schmidt, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1974‐75 | William R. Olsen, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1973‐74 | Alexander J. Walt, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1972‐73 | N.W. Thompson, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1971‐72 | Frederick S. Gillett, MD, FACS | Grand Rapids |
| 1970‐71 | William J. Fry, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1969‐70 | Roger F. Smith, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1968‐69 | William S. Carpenter, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1967‐68 | Robert E. L. Berry, MD, FACS | Flint |
| 1966‐67 | Darrell A. Campbell, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1965‐66 | James W. Logie, MD, FACS | Grand Rapids |
| 1964‐65 | Clifford Benson, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1963‐64 | Henry K. Ransom, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1962‐63 | William J. Fuller, MD, FACS | Grand Rapids |
| 1961‐62 | James B. Blodgett, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1960‐61 | Joseph A. Witter, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1959‐60 | E. Thurston Thieme, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |
| 1958‐59 | John H. Wellman, MD, FACS | Lansing |
| 1957‐58 | John Reid Brown, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1956‐57 | Sherwood B. Winslow, MD, FACS | Battle Creek |
| 1955‐56 | George Curry, MD, FACS | Flint |
| 1954‐55 | Eugene Osius, MD, FACS | Detroit |
| 1953‐54 | Fredrick A. Coller, MD, FACS | Ann Arbor |