Michael LeNoir MD, holds the position of President Elect for the NMA. His term will commence after his official swearing in ceremony during the 2013 Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly. Dr. LeNoir is an allergist in the East Bay Area, board certified in both a Fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Dr. LeNoir is a lifelong member of the American College of Allergy and served on the Board the American Association of Certified Allergist.

From 1998 to 2000 Dr. Lenoir served as the chair of the National Medical Associations Allergy and Asthma Section and was the recipient of the first Floyd Malveaux Award by that section. He has practiced allergy full time in San Francisco and Oakland since 1977. Dr. Lenoir has served as the chairperson of the Underserved Committee of the American Academy of Allergy and as the Past president of the Northern California Allergy Association. Dr. LeNoir is currently the President Elect of the National Medical Association. For 20 years he was the director of allergy services at San Francisco General Hospital. He has a special interest in the asthma in the African American and high risk communities and genetic polymorphisms. He served as the Chair of the Underserved Committee of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; President of the Northern California Allergy Association and of the National Association of Physician Broadcasters. In 1994 and 2001, Dr. LeNoir received the Ken Alvord Distinguished Community Service Award from that organization. He was one of 50 physicians, nationwide, chosen to receive the Pfizer Positive Physician Award from the American Medical Association. Additionally, in 1988, he was named the Oakland Citizen of the Year by the Oakland Tribune and named one of America’s leading African American Allergist by Black Enterprise Magazine in the August 2001 and 2008 issues. Since 2000, every year including 2010 Dr. Lenoir has been named as one of the 200 best physicians by San Francisco or by Oakland Magazine.

Dr. Lenoir is married to Denise Washington LeNoir. She has a Masters in Nursing and is a family nurse practitioner. He has four daughters and five grandchildren. He is a lifetime member of the NAACP, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and holds memberships in Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. His hobbies are photography and golf.