List of presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

This is a list of presidents of the American Psychiatric Association.

Image Name Year Notes
Samuel B. Woodward1844–1848First president, founded as the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane.
William Awl1848–1851
Luther Bell1851–1855
Isaac Ray1855–1859
Andrew McFarland1859–1862
Thomas Story Kirkbride1862–1870
John S. Butler1870–1873
Charles Nichols1873–1879
Clement Walker1879–1882
J.H. Callender1882–1883
John P. Gray1883–1884
Pliny Earle1884–1885
Orpheus Everts1885–1886
H.A. Buttolph1886–1887
Eugene Grissom1887–1888
John B. Chapin1888–1889
W. W. Godding1889–1890
H. P. Stearns1890–1891Organization name changed to American Medico-Psychological Association
Daniel Clark1891–1892
J. B. Andrews1892–1893
John Curwen1893–1894
Edward Cowles1894–1895
Richard Dewey1895–1896
Theophilus O. Powell1896–1897
Richard M. Bucke1897–1898
Henry M. Hurd1898–1899
Joseph G. Rogers1899–1900
Peter M. Wise1900–1901
Robert J. Preston1901–1902
A. B. Richardson1902–1903Died before taking office.
G. Adler Bloomer1902–1903
A. E. Macdonald1903–1904
T. J. W. Burgess1904–1905
C. B. Burr1905–1906
Charles G. Hill1906–1907
Charles P. Bancroft1907–1908
Arthur F. Kilbourne1908–1909
William F. Drewry1909–1910
Charles W. Pilgrim1910–1911
Hubert Work1911–1912
James T. Searcy1912–1913
Carlos Frederick MacDonald1913–1914
Samuel E. Smith1914–1915
Edward N. Brush1915–1916
Charles G. Wagner1916–1917
James V. Anglin1917–1918
Elmer E. Southard1918–1919
Henry C. Eyman1919–1920
Owen Copp1920–1921
Albert Moore Barrett1921–1922
Henry W. Mitchell1922–1923
Thomas W. Salmon1923–1924Mental hygiene advocate and chief consultant psychiatrist to the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.
William Alanson White1924–1925
C. Floyd Haviland1925–1926
George M. Kline1926–1927
Adolf Meyer1927–1928
Samuel T. Orton1928–1929
Earl D. Bond1929–1930
Walter M. English1930–1931
William L. Russell1931–1932
James Vance May1932–1933
George H. Kirby1933–1934
C. Fred Williams1934–1935
Clarence O. Cheney1935–1936
C. Macfie Campbell1936–1937
Ross McClure Chapman1937–1938
Richard H. Hutchings1938–1939
William C. Sandy1939–1940
George H. Stevenson1940–1941
H. Douglas Singer1941–1942Died before taking office.
James King Hall1941–1942
Arthur H. Ruggles1942–1943
Edward Strecker1943–1944Graduated from Jefferson University in 1911. Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases (1925-1931).
Karl M. Bowman1944–1946
Samuel W. Hamilton1946–1947
Winfred Overholser Sr.1947–1948
William C. Menninger1948–1949
George S. Stevenson1949–1950
John C. Whitehorn1950–1951Psychiatrist in Chief from 1941-1960 at Johns Hopkins University and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry.
Leo H. Bartemeier1951–1952
Donald Ewen Cameron1952–1953
Kenneth E. Appel1953–1954
Arthur Percy Noyes1954–1955
R. Finley Gayle Jr.1955–1956
Francis J. Braceland1956–1957
Harry C. Solomon1957–1958
Francis J. Gerty1958–1959
William Malamud1959–1960
Robert H. Felix1960–1961
Walter E. Barton1961–1962
C. H. Hardin Branch1962–1963
Jack R. Ewalt1963–1964
Daniel Blain1964–1965First 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).
Howard P. Rome1965–1966
Harvey J. Tompkins1966–1967
Henry W. Brosin1967–1968
Lawrence C. Kolb1968–1969
Raymond W. Waggoner1969–1970
Robert S. Garber1970–1971
Ewald W. Busse1971–1972
Perry Clement Talkingten1972–1973
Alfred M. Freedman1973–1974Led the effort to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.
John Patrick Spiegel1974–1975103rd president
Judd Marmor1975–1976
Robert W. Gibson1976–1977
Jack Weinberg1977–1978
Jules H. Masserman1978–1979
Alan A. Stone1979–1980
Donald G. Langsley1980–1981
Daniel X. Freedman1981–1982
H. Keith H. Brodie1982–1983
George Tarjan1983–1984
John A. Talbott1984–1985113th president
Carol Nadelson1985–1986First female president of the American Psychiatric Association.
First female editor-in-chief of the American Psychiatric Association Press (1986).
First director of Partners Office for Women's Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1998).
Robert O. Pasnau1986–1987
George H. Pollock1987–1988
Paul J. Fink1988–1989
Herbert Pardes1989–1990
Elissa P. Benedek1990–1991
Lawrence Hartmann1991–1992
Joseph T. English1992–1993
John S. McIntyre1993–1994
Jerry M. Wiener1994–1995
Mary Jane England1995–1996
Harold Eist1996–1997
Herbert S. Sacks1997–1998
Rodrigo A. Muñoz1998–1999
Allan Tasman1999–2000
Daniel B. Borenstein2000–2001
Richard K. Harding2001–2002
Paul S. Appelbaum2002–2003
Marcia Kraft Goin2003–2004
Michelle Riba2004–2005
Steven Sharfstein2005–2006
Pedro Ruiz2006–2007
Carolyn Robinowitz2007–2008
Nada Logan Stotland2008–2009
Alan F. Schatzberg2009–2010
Carol A. Bernstein2010–2011
John M. Oldham2011–2012
Dilip V. Jeste2012–2013First Asian-American President of the APA.
Jeffrey Lieberman2013–2014Chair of Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, principal investigator for the NIMH CATIE study.
Paul Summergrad2014–2015Dr. 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.
Renée Binder2015–2016Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Director, UCSF Department of Psychiatry.
Maria A. Oquendo2016–2017She was the first Latina president of the APA. Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Anita Everett2017–2018Chief Medical Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Director of the Office of Chief Medical Officers (OCMO).
Altha Stewart2018–2019First 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.
Bruce J. Schwartz2019–2020Deputy 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 Geller2020–2021Prior 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 Pender2021–2022Clinical 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. Brendel2022–2023Director 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 Levounis2023–2024Serves 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 Viswanathan2024–2025Current President
Theresa Miskimen2025–2026President-elect
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