Leadership

Officers

President

Jennifer Holton, MD 
Atlanta

Second Vice President

Justin Palanci, MD
Atlanta

President-Elect

Ben Hunter, MD
Atlanta

Secretary

Emile Risby, MD
Atlanta

Vice President

Eric Lewkowiez, MD
Augusta

Immediate Past President

Dilipkumar Patel, MD 
Lilburn

Treasurer

Ben Hunter, MD
Atlanta

APA Assembly Representatives

Howard Maziar, MD 
Atlanta

Joe Morgan, MD 
Valdosta

Ben Hunter, MD
Atlanta

Trustees

2027 Trustees

Raymond Kotwicki, MD
Atlanta

Colleen McLemore, MD
Athens

Kalpana Prasad, MD
Gainesville

Jennifer Wootten, MD
Atlanta

2026 Trustees

Kelly Coffman, MD, MPH
Roswell

Robert Cotes, MD
Atlanta

Colin Murphy, MD
Augusta

Priyanka Patel, MD, MHA
Atlanta

David Williams, MD
Augusta

2025 Trustees

Peter Ash, MD
Atlanta

Nicole Cotton, MD
Atlanta

Suneel Katragadda, MD
Atlanta

Paige Marnell, MD
Savannah

Matthew Norman, MD
Atlanta

RFM Trustees

Hamzah Shroof, DO
Medical College of Georgia/Augusta University

Erica Johnson, MD, PhD, MSPH
Morehouse School of Medicine

Jack Perna, MD
Emory University School of Medicine

Rahul Prasad, MD
Coliseum Health System

MacKenzie Sloas, MD

Gateway Behavioral Health System

Committee Chairs

Advocacy & Legislative
Joe Morgan, MD
Howard Maziar, MD

Investment

Ben Hunter, MD

Joseph Bona, MD, MBA (2016 - 2020)

Awards
Dilipkumar Patel, MD

International Psychiatry
Kalpana Prasad, MD

Community Psychiatry
Justin Palanci, MD

Membership
Emile Risby, MD

Constitution & Bylaws
Peter Ash, MD
Ben Hunter, MD
Dilipkumar Patel, MD

Newsletter Editor
Gary Weichbrodt, MD

Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Robert Cotes, MD
Sarah Herbert, MD, MPH

Nominating
Dilipkumar Patel, MD

Early Career Psychiatrists (ECP)
Justin Palanci, MD

Georgia Psychiatry PAC
Howard Maziar, MD
Joe Morgan, MD

Ethics
Peter Ash, MD

GaFPER
Ray Kotwicki, MD
Howard Maziar, MD

Private Practice
Jeffrey Winston, MD 

Women's
Jennifer Holton, MD

Disaster Representative to the APA (Co-Chairs)
Saundra Maass-Robinson, MD
Sultan Simms, MD

Distinguished Fellowship
Ann Schwartz, MD
Krystle Graham, DO