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Leadership

2025-2026

Officers

President

Ben Hunter, MD 
Atlanta

Second Vice President

Emile Risby, MD, JM
Atlanta

President-Elect

Eric Lewkowiez, MD
Augusta

Secretary

Kelly Coffman, MD, MPH
Atlanta

Vice President

Justin Palanci, MD
Atlanta

Immediate Past President

Jennifer Holton, MD 
Atlanta

Treasurer

Ben Hunter, MD
Atlanta

APA Assembly Representatives

Howard Maziar, MD 
Atlanta

Joe Morgan, MD 
Valdosta

Ben Hunter, MD
Atlanta

 

Trustees

2028 Trustees

Susan Blank, MD
Snellville

David Goldsmith, MD
Atlanta

Jenelle Martin, MD
Tucker

Lisa Rudolph-Watson, MD
Thomasville

Sultan Simms, MD

Atlanta

  

2027 Trustees

Raymond Kotwicki, MD
Atlanta

Colleen McLemore, MD
Athens

Kalpana Prasad, MD
Gainesville

Jennifer Wootten, MD
Atlanta

2026 Trustees

Samuel Brown, MD
Dalton

Robert Cotes, MD
Atlanta

Colin Murphy, MD
Augusta

Priyanka Patel, MD
Atlanta

David Williams, MD
Augusta

  

RFM Trustees

Hamzah Shroof, DO
Medical College of Georgia/Augusta University

Wahenoor Singh, MD
Morehouse School of Medicine

Punita Peketi, MD
Emory University School of Medicine

Heyley Silverstein, MD
North Georgia Health System

 
Sasha Grabb, MD
Gateway Behavioral Health System
 
Namita Mehta, MD
St. Francis Emory (Columbus)
 
Anthony Cimmino, MD 
South Georgia Medical Education and Research Consortium
 Robyn Cotney, MD 
Piedmont Macon Health System


Committee Chairs
Advocacy & Legislative Committee
Joe Morgan, MD
Howard Maziar, MD		 
Investment Committee
Ben Hunter, MD
Awards Committee
Jennifer Holton, MD		 International Psychiatry Committee
Kalpana Prasad, MD
Community Psychiatry Committee
Justin Palanci, MD		 Membership Committee
Emile Risby, MD
Constitution & Bylaws Committee
Peter Ash, MD
Ben Hunter, MD
Dilipkumar Patel, MD

Communications Committee
Kelly Coffman, MD, MPH
Jennifer Holton, MD
Ben Hunter, MD
Gary Weichbrodt, MD

 
Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee
Robert Cotes, MD
Sarah Herbert, MD, MSW		 Nominating Committee
Jennifer Holton, MD
Early Career Psychiatrists (ECP) Committee
Justin Palanci, MD		 Georgia Psychiatry PAC Committee
Howard Maziar, MD
Joe Morgan, MD
Ethics Committee
Peter Ash, MD
Ben Hunter, MD		 GPPA Foundation Committee
Ray Kotwicki, MD
Howard Maziar, MD
Private Practice Committee
Jeffrey Winston, MD 		 Women's Committee
Jennifer Holton, MD
Disaster Representative to the APA (Co-Chairs)
Saundra Maass-Robinson, MD
Sultan Simms, MD		 Distinguished Fellowship Committee
Ann Schwartz, MD
Krystle Graham, DO
GCMB Representative
Matthew Norman, MD 		  

                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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