This is a list of presidents of the American Psychiatric Association .
Image | Name | Year | Notes |
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![]() | Samuel B. Woodward | 1844–1848 | First president, founded as the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane. |
![]() | William Awl | 1848–1851 | |
![]() | Luther Bell | 1851–1855 | |
![]() | Isaac Ray | 1855–1859 | |
Andrew McFarland | 1859–1862 | ||
![]() | Thomas Story Kirkbride | 1862–1870 | |
![]() | John S. Butler | 1870–1873 | |
Charles Nichols | 1873–1879 | ||
Clement Walker | 1879–1882 | ||
J.H. Callender | 1882–1883 | ||
![]() | John P. Gray | 1883–1884 | |
![]() | Pliny Earle | 1884–1885 | |
![]() | Orpheus Everts | 1885–1886 | |
H.A. Buttolph | 1886–1887 | ||
Eugene Grissom | 1887–1888 | ||
John B. Chapin | 1888–1889 | ||
W. W. Godding | 1889–1890 | ||
H. P. Stearns | 1890–1891 | Organization name changed to American Medico-Psychological Association | |
Daniel Clark | 1891–1892 | ||
J. B. Andrews | 1892–1893 | ||
John Curwen | 1893–1894 | ||
![]() | Edward Cowles | 1894–1895 | |
![]() | Richard Dewey | 1895–1896 | |
Theophilus O. Powell | 1896–1897 | ||
![]() | Richard M. Bucke | 1897–1898 | |
![]() | Henry M. Hurd | 1898–1899 | |
Joseph G. Rogers | 1899–1900 | ||
Peter M. Wise | 1900–1901 | ||
Robert J. Preston | 1901–1902 | ||
A. B. Richardson | 1902–1903 | Died before taking office. | |
G. Adler Bloomer | 1902–1903 | ||
A. E. Macdonald | 1903–1904 | ||
T. J. W. Burgess | 1904–1905 | ||
C. B. Burr | 1905–1906 | ||
Charles G. Hill | 1906–1907 | [1] | |
Charles P. Bancroft | 1907–1908 | [1] | |
Arthur F. Kilbourne | 1908–1909 | [2] | |
William F. Drewry | 1909–1910 | [2] | |
Charles W. Pilgrim | 1910–1911 | [3] | |
![]() | Hubert Work | 1911–1912 | [3] |
James T. Searcy | 1912–1913 | [4] | |
![]() | Carlos Frederick MacDonald | 1913–1914 | [4] [5] |
Samuel E. Smith | 1914–1915 | [6] | |
Edward N. Brush | 1915–1916 | [6] | |
Charles G. Wagner | 1916–1917 | [7] | |
James V. Anglin | 1917–1918 | [7] | |
![]() | Elmer E. Southard | 1918–1919 | [8] |
Henry C. Eyman | 1919–1920 | [9] | |
Owen Copp | 1920–1921 | [9] | |
![]() | Albert Moore Barrett | 1921–1922 | |
Henry W. Mitchell | 1922–1923 | ||
![]() | Thomas W. Salmon | 1923–1924 | Mental hygiene advocate and chief consultant psychiatrist to the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. [10] |
William Alanson White | 1924–1925 | ||
C. Floyd Haviland | 1925–1926 | ||
![]() | George M. Kline | 1926–1927 | |
![]() | Adolf Meyer | 1927–1928 | |
Samuel T. Orton | 1928–1929 | ||
Earl D. Bond | 1929–1930 | ||
Walter M. English | 1930–1931 | ||
William L. Russell | 1931–1932 | ||
James Vance May | 1932–1933 | [11] | |
![]() | George H. Kirby | 1933–1934 | [12] |
C. Fred Williams | 1934–1935 | [13] | |
Clarence O. Cheney | 1935–1936 | [14] | |
C. Macfie Campbell | 1936–1937 | [15] | |
Ross McClure Chapman | 1937–1938 | [16] | |
Richard H. Hutchings | 1938–1939 | [17] | |
William C. Sandy | 1939–1940 | [18] | |
George H. Stevenson | 1940–1941 | [19] | |
H. Douglas Singer | 1941–1942 | Died before taking office. | |
James King Hall | 1941–1942 | [20] | |
Arthur H. Ruggles | 1942–1943 | [21] | |
Edward Strecker | 1943–1944 | Graduated from Jefferson University in 1911. Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases (1925-1931). [22] [23] | |
Karl M. Bowman | 1944–1946 | [24] | |
Samuel W. Hamilton | 1946–1947 | [25] | |
Winfred Overholser Sr. | 1947–1948 | [26] | |
![]() | William C. Menninger | 1948–1949 | [27] [28] |
George S. Stevenson | 1949–1950 | [29] | |
John C. Whitehorn | 1950–1951 | Psychiatrist in Chief from 1941-1960 at Johns Hopkins University and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. [30] | |
Leo H. Bartemeier | 1951–1952 | [31] | |
![]() | Donald Ewen Cameron | 1952–1953 | [32] |
Kenneth E. Appel | 1953–1954 | ||
Arthur Percy Noyes | 1954–1955 | [33] | |
R. Finley Gayle Jr. | 1955–1956 | [34] | |
Francis J. Braceland | 1956–1957 | [35] [23] | |
Harry C. Solomon | 1957–1958 | [36] | |
Francis J. Gerty | 1958–1959 | [37] | |
William Malamud | 1959–1960 | [38] | |
![]() | Robert H. Felix | 1960–1961 | [39] |
Walter E. Barton | 1961–1962 | [40] | |
C. H. Hardin Branch | 1962–1963 | [41] | |
Jack R. Ewalt | 1963–1964 | [42] | |
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). [43] [44] | |
Howard P. Rome | 1965–1966 | [45] | |
Harvey J. Tompkins | 1966–1967 | [46] | |
Henry W. Brosin | 1967–1968 | ||
![]() | Lawrence C. Kolb | 1968–1969 | [47] |
Raymond W. Waggoner | 1969–1970 | [48] | |
Robert S. Garber | 1970–1971 | [49] [23] | |
Ewald W. Busse | 1971–1972 | [50] | |
Perry Clement Talkingten | 1972–1973 | [51] | |
Alfred M. Freedman | 1973–1974 | Led the effort to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness. [52] [53] | |
John Patrick Spiegel | 1974–1975 | 103rd president [54] | |
Judd Marmor | 1975–1976 | [55] | |
Robert W. Gibson | 1976–1977 | [56] | |
Jack Weinberg | 1977–1978 | [57] | |
Jules H. Masserman | 1978–1979 | [58] | |
Alan A. Stone | 1979–1980 | [59] | |
Donald G. Langsley | 1980–1981 | [60] | |
Daniel X. Freedman | 1981–1982 | [61] | |
![]() | H. Keith H. Brodie | 1982–1983 | |
George Tarjan | 1983–1984 | [62] | |
John A. Talbott | 1984–1985 | 113th president [63] | |
Carol Nadelson | 1985–1986 | First female president of the American Psychiatric Association. [64] First female editor-in-chief of the American Psychiatric Association Press (1986). [65] First director of Partners Office for Women's Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1998). [65] | |
Robert O. Pasnau | 1986–1987 | [66] | |
George H. Pollock | 1987–1988 | [67] | |
Paul J. Fink | 1988–1989 | [68] | |
![]() | Herbert Pardes | 1989–1990 | [69] |
Elissa P. Benedek | 1990–1991 | [70] | |
![]() | Lawrence Hartmann | 1991–1992 | [71] |
Joseph T. English | 1992–1993 | [72] | |
John S. McIntyre | 1993–1994 | [73] | |
Jerry M. Wiener | 1994–1995 | [74] | |
Mary Jane England | 1995–1996 | [75] | |
Harold Eist | 1996–1997 | ||
Herbert S. Sacks | 1997–1998 | [76] | |
Rodrigo A. Muñoz | 1998–1999 | [77] | |
Allan Tasman | 1999–2000 | [78] | |
![]() | Daniel B. Borenstein | 2000–2001 | [79] |
Richard K. Harding | 2001–2002 | [80] | |
Paul S. Appelbaum | 2002–2003 | [81] | |
Marcia Kraft Goin | 2003–2004 | [82] | |
Michelle Riba | 2004–2005 | [83] | |
Steven Sharfstein | 2005–2006 | [84] | |
Pedro Ruiz | 2006–2007 | [85] | |
![]() | Carolyn Robinowitz | 2007–2008 | [86] |
Nada Logan Stotland | 2008–2009 | [87] | |
Alan F. Schatzberg | 2009–2010 | [88] | |
Carol A. Bernstein | 2010–2011 | [89] | |
John M. Oldham | 2011–2012 | [90] | |
Dilip V. Jeste | 2012–2013 | First Asian-American President of the APA. [91] | |
![]() | Jeffrey Lieberman | 2013–2014 | Chair of Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, principal investigator for the NIMH CATIE study. [92] [93] |
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. [94] [95] | |
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. [96] [97] | |
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. [98] | |
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). [99] | |
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. [100] | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Petros Levounis | 2023–2024 | 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. | |
Ramaswamy Viswanathan | 2024–2025 | Current President | |
Theresa Miskimen | 2025–2026 | President-elect | |