Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association
Name | Year | Notes |
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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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