David C. Dale, MD, FACP, a Seattle internist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, is President of the American College of Physicians. As president, Dr. Dale is the senior elected officer of the organization. He presides at all meetings of the ACP membership, serves ex officio on eight ACP committees, and represents ACP at regional and chapter meetings and public functions nationally and internationally. Dr. Dale became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) in 1976. He served as ACP Governor for Washington from 1998 to 2002, was elected Chair of the ACP Board of Governors for 2002-2003, and elected to the ACP Board of Regents in 2001. He has served as chair of the ACP Ethics and Human Rights Committee and chair of the Clinical Efficacy Assessment Subcommittee, the committee creating clinical guidelines for ACP. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ACP Medicine, the continually updated medical reference, formerly published as Scientific American Medicine. Dr. Dale is a graduate of Carson-Newman College and the Harvard Medical School. He completed residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Washington Hospital and received further training at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He joined the faculty of University of Washington School of Medicine in 1974 and served as Dean of the School of Medicine from 1982 to 1986. Dr. Dale is a former President of the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha and the Western Association of Physicians. He is a member of the American Society of Hematology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a number of other medical organizations. His research interests have focused on disorders of white blood cells and susceptibility to infections. Dr. Dale has served on the Board of Trustees of the Washington State and King County medical societies and the Seattle chapters of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity. He has also served on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee and the Board of Sponsors for Physicians for Social Responsibility. The American College of Physicians (ACP) is the largest medical specialty organization and the second-largest physician group in the United States. ACP members include 120,000 internal medicine physicians (internists), related subspecialists, and medical students. Internists specialize in the prevention, detection and treatment of illnesses in adults.