ACOFP: OUR CONTINUING HISTORY 123 Leadership 1998–1999 MAX E. HELMAN, DO, FACOFP dist. Mishawaka, Indiana Dr. Helman was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York, in 1935 and was educated at New York University in the Bronx from 1953 to 1956. He traveled west to Missouri and attended Northeast Missouri State Teachers College. His studies were interrupted when he was drafted by the U.S. Army. Upon completion of service, Dr. Helman returned to college and graduated in 1962. He was then accepted to the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and earned a DO degree in 1965. He proceeded to South Bend, Indiana, for an internship, graduating in 1966. Dr. Helman soon moved to Mishawaka, Indiana, to enter private practice in 1967. He was certified in 1988 and recertified in 1995. Dr. Helman is presently an assistant clinical professor of Osteopathic Family Practice at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and serves as advisor for students from the University of Notre Dame and other local colleges. He was inducted into the Conclave of Fellows in 1990 and served three terms as conclave secretary. Dr. Helman is credited with compiling most of our written history. As chair of the Archival and Historical Committee for more than a decade, Dr. Helman began videotaping and archiving interviews with ACOFP leaders. Dr. Helman contracted with a company in Indiana to establish and upgrade ACOFP’s website, bringing ACOFP and its membership into the technological age. He also expanded the journal’s size and solicited medical artifacts for ACOFP’s museum at the Chicago office. Communications and history were his primary interests. Dr. Helman said: “As guardians of health care, family physicians can manage evolution, especially if we speak with one voice.” The innovations he fostered in ACOFP gave the organization that one voice and preserved the voices from the past. 1999–2000 JOSEPH P. MCNERNEY, DO, FACOFP dist. Fairfield, Iowa One of the few presidents to be born in an osteopathic hospital, Dr. McNerney has lived his entire life under the influence of osteopathic medicine. Born in 1950 at the Still Osteopathic Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, just a few months after the birth of ACOFP in California, he would share this commonality with ACOFP throughout his life. Dr. McNerney received his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1978, and attended the Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine (DMUCOM), graduating in 1980. His internship was served at Des Moines General Hospital, Blank Children’s Hospital, and Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, graduating in 1981. He entered private practice in Wall Lake, Iowa, and proceeded to Fairfield, Iowa, from 1988 to 2000. Dr. McNerney was certified in 1988 and became a fellow in 1992. Dr. McNerney was fortunate to have a father who was an osteopathic physician and who introduced his son to the profession’s politics early in his career. Dr. McNerney joined ACOFP, AOA, and the Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association after one year in practice. He was a founding member of American Osteopathic
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