Cesar Augusto Caceres, MD., first joined AAMI’s Board of Directors in 1969, then served as AAMI’s president from 1971 to 1972. An early advocate for the clinical engineering profession, he coined the term “clinical engineer” in the mid-1960s. He organized several conferences for AAMI on topics such as clinical engineering and rising healthcare costs; won research grants for AAMI, many on topics related to clinical engineering; and edited several books on clinical engineering. He had a practice in internal medicine for 53 years and today is executive director of the Institute for Technology in Health Care in Washington, DC. He is the "father of clinical engineering" and he is credited with "How Clinical Engineering Got Its Name".