List of presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

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Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

Name Year Notes
Petros Levounis 2023–2024 Current President. Serves as professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and associate dean for professional development at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is also the chief of service at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Levounis came to Rutgers from Columbia University where he served as director of the Addiction Institute of New York from 2002 to 2013.
Rebecca W. Brendel 2022–2023 Director of the Master of Bioethics Program, Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also a Director of Law and Ethics at the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Vivian Pender 2021–2022 Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Weill Cornell Medical College. Training psychoanalyst, Columbia University. Founder of Healthcare Against Trafficking, Inc. Consultant psychiatrist and psychoanalyst to the United Nations
.
Jeffery Geller 2020–2021 Prior Director of Public Sector Psychiatry and current Professor of Psychiatry at
University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). Previous medical director (served 7 years) and current staff psychiatrist, Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital
.
Bruce J. Schwartz 2019–2020 Deputy Chair and Clinical Director of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Montefiore and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. President of the Montefiore Behavioral Care IPA. Medical Director and founding member of University Behavioral Associates.
Altha Stewart 2018–2019 First African-American elected to lead the APA. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth, University of Tennessee Health Science Center.[1]
Anita Everett 2017–2018 Chief Medical Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Director of the Office of Chief Medical Officers (OCMO).[2]
Maria A. Oquendo 2016–2017 She was the first Latina president of the APA. Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.[3]
Renée Binder 2015–2016 Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Director, UCSF Department of Psychiatry.[4][5]
Paul Summergrad 2014–2015 Dr. Frances S. Arkin Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Tufts Medical Center.[6][7]
Jeffrey Lieberman 2013–2014 Chair of Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, principal investigator for the NIMH CATIE study.[8][9]
Dilip V. Jeste 2012-2013 First Asian-American President of the APA.[10]
John M. Oldham 2011–2012 [11]
Carol A. Bernstein 2010–2011 [12]
Alan F. Schatzberg 2009-2010 [13]
Nada Logan Stotland
2008-2009 [14]
Carolyn Robinowitz 2007–2008 [15]
Pedro Ruiz 2006-2007 [16]
Steven Sharfstein 2005–2006 [17]
Michelle Riba 2004–2005 [18]
Marcia Kraft Goin 2003-2004 [19]
Paul S. Appelbaum 2002-2003 [20]
Richard K. Harding 2001–2002 [21]
Daniel B. Borenstein 2000–2001 [22]
Allan Tasman 1999-2000 [23]
Rodrigo A. Muñoz 1998-1999 [24]
Herbert S. Sacks 1997–1998 [25]
Harold Eist 1996–1997
Mary Jane England 1995-1996 [26]
Jerry M. Wiener 1994-1995 [27]
John McIntyre 1993–1994 [28]
Joseph T. English 1992-1993 [29]
Lawrence Hartmann 1991-1992 [30]
Elissa P. Benedek 1990-1991 [31]
Herbert Pardes
1989-1990 [32]
Paul Fink 1988-1989 [33]
George H. Pollock 1987-1988 [34]
Robert O. Pasnau 1986–1987 [35]
Carol Nadelson 1985-1986 First female president of the American Psychiatric Association.[36]
First female editor-in-chief of the American Psychiatric Association Press (1986).[37]

First director of Partners Office for Women's Careers at

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1998).[37]

John A. Talbott 1984-1985 113th president[38]
George Tarjan 1983-1984 [39]
H. Keith H. Brodie 1982-1983
Daniel X. Freedman 1981-1982 [40]
Donald G. Langsley 1980-1981 [41]
Alan A. Stone 1979-1980 [42]
Jules H. Masserman 1978-1979 [43]
Jack Weinberg 1977-1978 [44]
Robert W. Gibson 1976-1977 [45]
Judd Marmor 1975-1976 [46]
John Patrick Spiegel 1974-1975 103rd president[47]
Alfred M. Freedman 1973-1974 Led the effort to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.[48][49]
Perry Clement Talkingten 1972–1973 [50]
Ewald W. Busse 1971–1972 [51]
Robert S. Garber 1970–1971 [52][53]
Raymond W. Waggoner 1969–1970 [54]
Lawrence C. Kolb
1968-1969 [55]
Henry W. Brosin 1967–1968
Harvey J. Tompkins
1966–1967 [56]
Howard P. Rome 1965–1966 [57]
Daniel Blain 1964–1965 First medical director of the American Psychiatric Association and founder of the newsletter that became the journal Mental Hospitals (1951–1965), later Hospital & Community Psychiatry (1966–1994) and Psychiatric Services (1995–present).[58][59]
Jack R. Ewalt 1963–1964 [60]
C. H. Hardin Branch 1962–1963 [61]
Walter E. Barton 1961–1962 [62]
Robert H. Felix 1960-1961 [63]
William Malamud 1959–1960 [64]
Francis J. Gerty 1958–1959 [65]
Harry C. Solomon 1957–1958 [66]
Francis J. Braceland 1956–1957 [67][53]
R. Finley Gayle Jr. 1955–1956 [68]
Arthur Percy Noyes 1954–1955 [69]
Kenneth E. Appel 1953–1954
Donald Ewen Cameron 1952–1953 [70]
Leo H. Bartemeier 1951–1952 [71]
John C. Whitehorn 1950–1951 Psychiatrist in Chief from 1941-1960 at Johns Hopkins University and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry.[72]
George S. Stevenson 1949-1950 [73]
William Claire Menninger 1948-1949 [74][75]
Winfred Overholser Sr. 1947-1948 [76]
Samuel W. Hamilton 1946–1947 [77]
Karl M. Bowman 1944–1946 [78]
Edward Strecker
1943–1944 Graduated from Jefferson University in 1911. Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases (1925-1931).[79][53]
Arthur H. Ruggles 1942-1943 [80]
James King Hall 1941-1942 [81]
H. Douglas Singer 1941-1942 Died before taking office.
George H. Stevenson 1940-1941 [82]
William C. Sandy 1939-1940 [83]
Richard H. Hutchings 1938-1939 [84]
Ross McClure Chapman 1937-1938 [85]
C. Macfie Campbell
1936-1937 [86]
Clarence O. Cheney 1935-1936 [87]
C. Fred Williams 1934-1935 [88]
George H. Kirby 1933-1934 [89]
James Vance May 1932-1933 [90]
William L. Russell 1931-1932
Walter M English 1930-1931
Earl D. Bond 1929-1930
Samuel T. Orton
1928-1929
Adolf Meyer 1927-1928
George M. Kline 1926-1927
C. Floyd Haviland 1925-1926
William Alanson White 1924-1925
Thomas W. Salmon 1923-1924 Mental hygiene advocate and chief consultant psychiatrist to the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.[91]
Henry W. Mitchell 1922-1923
Albert Moore Barrett 1921-1922
Owen Copp 1920-1921 [92]
Henry C. Eyman 1919-1920 [92]
Elmer E. Southard
1918-1919 [93]
James V. Anglin 1917-1918 [94]
Charles G. Wagner 1916-1917 [94]
Edward N. Brush
1915-1916 [95]
Samuel E. Smith 1914-1915 [95]
Carlos Frederick MacDonald 1913–1914 [96][97]
James T. Searcy 1912-1913 [96]
Hubert Work 1911-1912 [98]
Charles W. Pilgrim 1910-1911 [98]
William F. Drewry 1909-1910 [99]
Arthur F. Kilbourne 1908-1909 [99]
Charles P. Bancroft 1907-1908 [100]
Charles G. Hill 1906-1907 [100]
C. B. Burr 1905-1906
T.J. W. Burgess 1904-1905
A. E. Macdonald 1903-1904
G. Adler Bloomer 1902-1903
A. B. Richardson 1902-1903 Died before taking office.
Robert J. Preston 1901-1902
Peter M. Wise 1900-1901
Joseph G. Rogers 1899-1900
Henry M. Hurd
1898-1899
Richard M. Bucke
1897-1898
Theophilus O. Powell 1896-1997
Richard Dewey 1895-1896
Edward Cowles 1894-1895
John Curwen 1893-1894
J.B. Andrews
1892-1893
Daniel Clark 1891-1892
H.P. Stearns 1890-1891 Organization name changed to American Medico-Psychological Association
W.W. Godding 1889-1890
John B. Chapin 1888-1889
Eugene Grissom 1887-1888
H.A. Buttolph 1886-1887
Orpheus Everts 1885-1886
Pliny Earle 1884-1885
John P. Gray 1883-1884
J.H. Callender 1882-1883
Clement Walker 1879-1882
Charles Nichols 1873-1879
John S. Butler 1870-1873
Thomas Story Kirkbride 1862-1870
Andrew McFarland
1859-1862
Isaac Ray 1855-1859
Luther Bell
1851-1855
William Awl
1848-1851
Samuel B. Woodward
1844-1848 First president, founded as the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane.

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