Leadership
2022-2023
Officers
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President
Sarah Vinson, MD Atlanta
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Treasurer
Ben Hunter, MD Atlanta
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President-Elect
Dilipkumar Patel, MD Lilburn
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Secretary
Eric Lewkowiez, MD Augusta
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Vice President
Jennifer Holton, MD Atlanta
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Immediate Past President
Brian Miller, MD, PhD, MPH Augusta
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APA Assembly Representatives
Howard Maziar, MD Atlanta
Joe Morgan, MD Valdosta
Sultan Simms, MD Atlanta
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Trustees
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2025 Trustees
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Peter Ash, MD Atlanta
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Nicole Cotton, MD Atlanta
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Suneel Katragadda, MD Atlanta
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Paige Marnell, MD Savannah
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Matthew Norman, MD Atlanta
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2024 Trustees
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Oksana Kershteyn, MD Atlanta
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Kristine Hsu-McDaniel, MD Decatur
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Emile Risby, MD Lithonia
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John Tumeh, MD Atlanta
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2023 Trustees
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Alana Cox, MD Savannah
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Steven Hines, MD Athens
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Elizabeth Furbish, MD Milledgeville
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Justin Palanci, MD Atlanta
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RFM Trustees
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Daniel Phan, MD Medical College of Georgia/Augusta Univ.
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Rashad Smith, MD Morehouse School of Medicine
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Justin Trop, MD Emory University School of Medicine
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Brian Birdsong, MD Coliseum Health System
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Rachel Gluck, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
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Mary Mercer, MD
Gateway Behavioral Health System
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Committee Chairs
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Advocacy & Legislative Joe Morgan, MD Howard Maziar, MD
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Investment
Peter Ash, MD
Joseph Bona, MD, MBA (2016 - 2020)
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Awards Brian Miller, MD, PhD, MPH
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International Psychiatry Dilip Patel, MD
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Community Psychiatry Justin Palanci, MD
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Membership Eric Lewkowiez, MD
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Constitution & Bylaws Frank Brown, MD
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Newsletter Editor Gary Weichbrodt, MD
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Continuing Medical Education (CME) Rob Cotes, MD Sarah Herbert, MD
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Nominating Brian Miller, MD
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Early Career Psychiatrists (ECP) Ben Hunter, MD Sarah Vinson, MD
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Georgia Psychiatry PAC Howard Maziar, MD Joe Morgan, MD
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Ethics Peter Ash, MD
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GaFPER Ray Kotwicki, MD Howard Maziar, MD
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Private Practice Jeffrey Winston, MD
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Women's Jennifer Holton, MD
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Disaster Representative to the APA (Co-Chairs) Saundra Maass-Robinson, MD
Sultan Simms, MD
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Distinguished Fellowship
Ann Schwartz, MDKrystle Graham, DO |
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