AAPL Governance

AAPL has a rich history of leaders and committed volunteers who have shaped what AAPL is today.

Each year individuals are elected to the Executive Council by the AAPL voting members at the Annual Business Meeting. Below is a list of the current Executive Council members.

The Executive Council meets at least two times per year and determines the direction of the organization and how the resources are utilized.

2024 - 2025 AAPL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

President

Ryan C. Wagoner, MD

President-elect

Philip Candilis, MD

Vice President (23-25)

Renée M. Sorrentino, MD

Vice President (24-26)

Reena Kapoor, MD

Secretary (24-26)

Abhishek Jain, MD

Treasurer (23-25)

Britta Ostermeyer, MD, MBA

Immediate Past President

Charles Dike, MD

Underrepresented/Minority councilor (23-26)

Elie Aoun, MD

Women’s Councilor (23-26)

Jacqueline Landess, MD, JD

Early Career Councilor (24-25)

Nina Ross, MD

56th Annual Meeting Program Committee Co-Chairs

Ariana Nesbit Huselid, MD

Abhishek Jain, MD

Current Councilors

2024-2027

Ashley VanDercar, MD

2024-2027

Sara West, MD

2023-2026

Carolina A. Klein, MD

2023-2026

Jacob Appel, MD, JD

2023-2026

Katherine Michaelsen, MD

2023-2026

Joy Stankowski, MD

2022-2025

Cathleen Cerny-Suelzer, MD

2022-2025

Chinmoy Gulrajani, MD

2022-2025

Tobias D. Wasser, MD

Medical Director

2023-

Debra Pinals, MD

Association Executive

Dana Cooper, MBA, CAE

Marie Westlake

Publication Editors

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Michael A. Norko, MD

American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Newsletter

Chinmoy Gulrajani, MD

Past Medical Directors

2013-2023

Jeffrey S. Janofsky, MD

1995-2013

Howard V. Zonana, MD

1972-1995

Jonas R. Rappeport, MD

Past Presidents

2023-2024

Charles Dike, MD

2022-2023

James L. Knoll IV, MD

2021-2022

Susan Hatters Friedman, MD

2020-2021

Liza Gold, MD

2019-2020

William Newman, MD

2018-2019

Richard L. Frierson, MD

2017-2018

Christopher R. Thompson, MD

2016-2017

Michael A. Norko, MD

2015-2016

Emily A. Keram, MD

2014-2015

Graham D. Glancy, MB

2013-2014

Robert Weinstock, MD

2012-2013

Debra A. Pinals, MD

2011-2012

Charles L. Scott, MD

2010-2011

Peter Ash, MD

2009-2010

Stephen B. Billick, MD

2008-2009

Patricia R. Recupero, MD, JD

2007-2008

Jeffrey S. Janofsky, MD

2006-2007

Alan R. Felthous, MD

2005-2006

Robert I. Simon, MD

2004-2005

Robert T.M. Phillips, MD, PhD

2003-2004

Robert Wettstein, MD

2002-2003

Roy J. O’Shaughnessy, MD

2001-2002

Larry Strasburger, MD

2000-2001

Jeffrey Metzner, MD

1999-2000

Thomas G. Gutheil, MD

1998-1999

Larry R. Faulkner, MD

1997-1998

Renée L. Binder, MD

1996-1997

Ezra E. H. Griffith, MD

1995-1996

Paul S. Appelbaum, MD

1994-1995

Park E. Dietz, MD, PhD, MPH

1993-1994

John M. Bradford, MB

1992-1993

Howard V. Zonana, MD

1991-1992

Kathleen M. Quinn, MD

1990-1991

Richard T. Rada, MD

1989-1990

Joseph D. Bloom, MD

1988-1989

William H. Reid, MD

1987-1988

Richard Rosner, MD

1986-1987

J. Richard Ciccone, MD

1985-1986

Selwyn M. Smith, MD

1984-1985

Phillip J. Resnick, MD

1983-1984

Loren H. Roth, MD

1982-1983

Abraham L. Halpern MD

1981-1982

Stanley L. Portnow, MD

1980-1981

Herbert E. Thomas, MD

1979-1980

Nathan I. Sidley, MD

1978-1979

Irwin N. Perr, MD

1975-1977

Gerald J. Sarwer-Foner, MD

1973-1975

Seymour L. Pollack, MD

1971-1973

Robert L. Sadoff, MD

1969-1971

Jonas R. Rappeport, MD