List of presidents of the American Psychiatric Association
Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

List of presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

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Table Section Text: Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

Name	Year	Notes

Altha Stewart	2018–2019	Current President, 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.

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).

Maria Oquendo	2016–2017	Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

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.

Paul Summergrad	2014–2015	Dr. Frances S.

Jeffrey Lieberman	2013–2014	Chair of Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, principal investigator for the NIMH CATIE study.

Dilip V. Jeste	2012-2013	First Asian-American President of the APA.

John M. Oldham	2011–2012

Carol A. Bernstein	2010–2011

Alan F. Schatzberg	2009-2010

Nada Logan Stotland	2008-2009

Carolyn Robinowitz	2007–2008

Pedro Ruiz	2006-2007

Steven Sharfstein	2005–2006

Michelle Riba	2004–2005

Marcia Kraft Goin	2003-2004

Paul S. Appelbaum	2002-2003

Richard K. Harding	2001–2002

Daniel B. Borenstein	2000–2001

Allan Tasman	1999-2000

Rodrigo A. Muñoz	1998-1999

Herbert S. Sacks	1997–1998

Harold Eist	1996–1997

Mary Jane England	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. First female editor-in-chief of the American Psychiatric Association Press (1986).

John A. Talbott	1984-1985	113th president

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	1976-1977

Judd Marmor	1975-1976

John Patrick Spiegel	1974-1975	103rd president

Alfred M. Freedman	1973-1974	Led the effort to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.

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

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).

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

Winfred Overholser Sr.	1947-1948

Samuel W. Hamilton	1946–1947

Karl M. Bowman	1944–1946

Edward Strecker	1943–1944	Graduated from Jefferson University in 1911 Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases (1925-1931).

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 McClure 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. Salmon	1923-1924	Mental hygiene advocate and chief consultant psychiatrist to the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.

Henry W. Mitchell	1922-1923

Albert M. Barett	1921-1922

Owen Copp	1920-1921

Henry C. Eyman	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	1914-1915

Carlos Frederick MacDonald	1913–1914

James T. Searcy	1912-1913

Hubert Work	1911-1912

Charles W. Pilgrim	1910-1911

William F. Drewry	1909-1910

Arthur F. Kilbourne	1908-1909

Charles P. Bancroft	1907-1908

Charles G. Hill	1906-1907

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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John Paul Spiegel was the 103rd President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

final_sentence: John Paul Spiegel was the 103rd President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).