Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

Name	Year	Notes
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 [1]
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[2]
Jeffrey Lieberman	2013–2014	Chair of Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, principal investigator for the NIMH CATIE study [3]
Carolyn Robinowitz	2009-2010
Pedro Ruiz	2006-2007
Mary Jane England	2005-2006
Marcia Kraft Goin	2003-2004
Paul S. Appelbaum	2002-2003
Allan Tasman	1999-2000
Rodrigo A. Munoz	1998-1999
Harold Eist	1996–1997
Steven Sharfstein	1995-1996
Jerry M. Wiener	1994-1995
John McIntyre	1993–1994
Joseph T. English	1992-1993
Lawrence Hartmann	1991-1992
Elissa P. Benedek	1990-1991
Herbert Pardes	1989-1990
Paul Fink	1988-1989
George H. Pollock	1987-1988
Robert O. Pasnau	1986–1987
Carol Nadelson	1985-1986	First female president of the American Psychiatric Association.[4] First female editor-in-chief of the American Psychiatric Association Press (1986).[5] First director of Partners Office for Women's Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1998).[5]
John A. Talbott	1984-1985	113th president[6]
George Tarjan	1983-1984
H. Kieth H. Brodie	1982-1983
Daniel X. Freedman	1981-1982
Donald G. Langsley	1980-1981
Alan A. Stone	1979-1980
Jules H. Masserman	1978-1979
Jack Weinberg	1977-1978
Robert W. Gibson (psychiatrist)	1976-1977
Judd Marmor	1975-1976
John Patrick Spiegel	1974-1975	103rd president[7]
Alfred M. Freedman	1973-1974	Led the effort to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.[8]
Perry Clement Talkingten	1972–1973
Ewald W. Busse	1971–1972
Robert S. Garber	1970–1971
Robert Waggoner	1969–1970
Lawrence C. Kolb	1968-1969
Henry W. Brosin	1967–1968
Harvey J. Tompkins	1966–1967
Howard P. Rome	1965–1966
Jack R. Ewalt	1963–1964
C. H. Hardin Branch	1962–1963
Walter E. Barton	1961–1962
Robert H. Felix	1960-1961
William Malamud	1959–1960
Francis J. Gerty	1958–1959
Harry C. Solomon	1957–1958
Francis J. Braceland	1956–1957
R. Finley Gayle Jr.	1955–1956
Aurther P. Noyes	1954–1955
Kenneth E. Appel	1953–1954
Donald Ewen Cameron	1952–1953
Leo H. Bartemeier	1951–1952
John C. Whitehorn	1950–1951	Psychiatrist in Chief from 1941-1960 at Johns Hopkins University and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry.
George S. Stevenson	1949-1950
William Claire Menninger	1948-1949	[9]
Winfred Overholser Sr.	1947-1948
Samuel W. Hamilton	1946–1947
Karl M. Bowman	1944–1946
Dr. Edward Strecker	1943–1944	Graduated from Jefferson University in 1911 Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases (1925-1931) [10]
Aurther H. Ruggles	1942-1943
James King Hall	1941-1942
H. Douglas Singer	1941-1942	Died before taking office,
George H. Stevenson	1940-1941
William C. Sandy	1939-1940
Richard H. Hutchings	1938-1939
Ross McC. Chapman	1937-1938
C. Macfie Campbell	1936-1937
Clarence O. Cheney	1935-1936
C. Fred Williams	1934-1935
George H. Kirby	1933-1934
James V. May	1932-1933|
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 A White	1924-1925
Thomas W. Salman	1923-1924
Henry W. Mitchell	1922-1923
Albert M. Barett	1921-1922
Owen Copp	1920-1921
Henry C Eman	1919-1920
Elmer E Southard	1918-1919
James V. Anglin	1917-1918
Charles G. Wagner	1916-1917
Edward N. Brush	1915-1916
Samuel E. Smith (psychiatrist)	1914-1915
Carlos Frederick MacDonald	1913-1914	[11]
James C. Searcy	1912-1913
Hubert Work	1911-1912
Charles W. Pilgrim	1910-1911
William F. Drewry	1909-1910
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 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 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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