Past Presidents of the Academy
| 2024-2025 | Sherwood Brown, MD, PhD, FACLP |
| 2023-2024 | Madeleine Becker, MD, FACLP |
| 2022-2023 | Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP |
| 2021-2022 | Philip Bialer, MD, FACLP |
| 2020-2021 | Maria Tiamson-Kassab, MD, FACLP |
| 2019-2020 | Michael C. Sharpe, MD, FACLP |
| 2018-2019 | Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, FACLP |
| 2017-2018 | James Rundell, MD, FACLP |
| 2016-2017 | Robert Boland, MD, FACLP |
| 2015-2016 | Steven Epstein, MD, FACLP |
| 2014-2015 | Catherine C. Crone, MD, FACLP |
| 2013-2014 | Linda L.M. Worley, MD, FACLP |
| 2012-2013 | Wayne J. Katon, MD, FACLP |
| 2011-2012 | Donald L. Rosenstein, MD, FACLP |
| 2010-2011 | John L. Shuster, Jr., MD, FACLP |
| 2009-2010 | David F. Gitlin, MD, FACLP |
| 2008-2009 | Carol L. Alter, MD, FACLP |
| 2007-2008 | Constantine G. Lyketsos, MD, FACLP |
| 2006-2007 | William S. Breitbart, MD, FACLP |
| 2005-2006 | Stephen M. Saravay, MD, FACLP |
| 2004-2005 | Paula T. Trzepacz, MD, FACLP |
| 2003-2004 | Theodore A. Stern, MD, FACLP |
| 2002-2003 | Mary Jane Massie, MD, FACLP |
| 2001-2002 | Peter A. Shapiro, MD, FACLP |
| 2000-2001 | Edwin H. Cassem, MD, FACLP |
| 1999-2000 | James L. Levenson, MD, FACLP |
| 1998-1999 | Daniel W. Winstead, MD, FACLP |
| 1997-1998 | Roger G. Kathol, MD, FACLP |
| 1996-1997 | Jimmie C. Holland, MD, FACLP |
| 1995-1996 | Charles V. Ford, MD, FACLP |
| 1994-1995 | John R. Hayes, MD, FACLP |
| 1993-1994 | Thomas N. Wise, MD, FACLP |
| 1992-1993 | Michael K. Popkin, MD, FACLP |
| 1991-1992 | Troy L. Thompson II, MD, FACLP |
| 1990-1991 | Russel Noyes, Jr., MD, FACLP |
| 1989-1990 | Richard C.W. Hall, MD, FACLP |
| 1988-1989 | A. Dale Gulledge, MD, FACLP |
| 1987-1988 | Thomas P. Hackett, MD, FACLP |
| 1986-1987 | William L. Webb, Jr., MD, FACLP |
| 1985-1986 | Harold R. Martin, MD, FACLP |
| 1984-1985 | Richard T. Rada, MD, FACLP |
| 1983-1984 | Barney M. Dlin, MD, FACLP |
| 1982-1983 | Fred O. Henker, III, MD, FACLP |
| 1981-1982 | Bernice C. Sachs, MD, FACLP |
| 1980-1981 | Wendell M. Swenson, PhD, FACLP |
| 1979-1980 | Roland S. Medansky, MD, FACLP |
| 1978-1979 | Joseph V. Fisher, MD, FACLP |
| 1977-1978 | John H. Manhold, Jr., DMD, FACLP |
| 1976-1977 | Norman L. Mauroner, MD, FACLP |
| 1975-1976 | H. Keith Fischer, MD, FACLP |
| 1974-1975 | Thomas C. Kalkhof, MF, FACLP |
| 1973-1974 | M.J. Martin, MD, FACLP |
| 1972-1973 | J. Campbell Howard, Jr., MD, FACLP |
| 1971-1972 | Sidney Cohen, MD, FACLP |
| 1970-1971 | John J. Schwab, MD, FACLP |
| 1969-1970 | Adam J. Krakowski, MD, FACLP |
| 1968-1969 | Blaine McLaughlin, MD, FACLP |
| 1966-1968 | F.P. Rhoades, MD, FACLP |
| 1965-1966 | Victor Szyrinski, MD, PhD, FACLP |
| 1964-1965 | Bertram B. Moss, MD, FACLP |
| 1963-1964 | M. Murray Peshkin, MD, FACLP |
| 1962-1963 | Robert N. Rutherford, MD, FACLP |
| 1961-1962 | Maury D. Sanger, MD, FACLP |
| 1960-1961 | George Sutherland, MD, FACLP |
| 1959-1960 | Wilfred Dorfman, MD, FACLP |
| 1958-1959 | William S. Kroger, MD, FACLP |
| 1957-1958 | Bernard B. Raginsky, MD, FACLP |
| 1956-1957 | Ethan Allan Brown, MD, FACLP |
| 1955-1956 | Alfred Cantor, MD, FACLP |
| 1954-1955 | William Kaufman, MD, FACLP |
Meet the Past Presidents
What these bios show is that our last five presidents are a diverse group. What unifies all of them is a multidecade commitment to organized medicine. Each of them contributed many years of service both to our organization and to other medical specialty groups. We serve our patients in the clinic, but we also serve them by our advocacy for our profession and for the medically ill.
Maria L.A. Tiamson-Kassab, MD, FACLP
Director, Psychiatry and Psychological Services, Moores Cancer Center, & Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego (retired)
Maria L.A. Tiamson-Kassab has served on multiple ACLP committees, including as Chair of the Membership Committee, and served on the Council/Board of Directors from 2011 to 2022. She held multiple offices for the Society for Liaison Psychiatry in NY, including President. She served on nine APA committees and workgroups, held leadership positions in APA district branches Nassau County District Branch, Psychiatric Society of Westchester, and San Diego Psychiatric Society, and served as APA Area Assembly representative from NY and CA. During her term as President of ACLP (2020-2021), Covid-19 was at its peak, and she led our organization’s response to the crisis. She fostered collaborative relationships with multiple psychiatry organizations and instituted governance reforms in ACLP. As the first and only Filipino-American leader of our organization, she is particularly proud of the creation of the DEI Task Force, subsequently reconvened as a continuing committee.
Philip Bialer, MD, FACLP
Attending Psychiatrist, Memorial Sloan Kettering, & Professor, Weill Cornell College (retired)
Philip Bialer did pioneering work in HIV psychiatry, starting the AIDS Psychiatry Clinic and the first HIV/AIDS CL Fellowship in 1988 at the Beth Israel Medical Center, NY. Later in his career, he focused on teaching physician communication skills at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Within ACLP, his many roles included Education Committee Chair, spearheading the enrollment of the subspecialty in the NRMP Match Program, as well as serving as Annual Meeting Chair in 2015. Within the APA, he served as the LGBT Representative to the APA Assembly Minorities and Underrepresented Committee and subsequently as the Chair of the C-L Psychiatry Council. For the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, he served on the C-L Psychiatry Committee. He served on the ACLP Board of Directors for 12 years and was President of ACLP in 2021-2022. He views his most significant achievement as development of a 5-year Strategic Plan and hopes to see ACLP growing as the home of C-L Psychiatry with expanding educational outreach and expanding collaboration with the House of Medicine.
Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP
Clinical Director and Deputy Scientific Director, NIMH Intramural Research Program, & Clinical/Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University
Maryland Pao was Chief of the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service in the NIH Hatfield Clinical Research Center from 2008 to 2019. Her career focused on coping and adaptation to medical illness in children and families and she has published more than 200 research articles and chapters. Her most notable leadership roles within ACLP were Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychosomatic Medicine from 2005-2016 as well as Membership Committee Chair. She has played roles at multiple organizations, including the AACAP, APA, APOS, and ABPN. She was President of ACLP from 2022-2023, overseeing the selection of a new association management company for our organization. The accomplishment she is most proud of is fostering the next generation of pediatric C-L practitioners. She was the winner of ACLP’s first award for accomplishment in Child and Adolescent CL in 2025 and is currently a Deputy Editor of our Journal of the Academy of
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Madeleine Becker, MD, MA, FACLP
Madeleine Becker Director of Medical Education, Department of Integrative Medicine, & Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Thomas Jefferson University
Madeleine Becker is an internationally recognized expert and educator in the psychiatric care of medically ill patients, with specific expertise in women’s mental health and the use of complementary and psychotropic treatments. She served as the Division Director for the Psychiatry Consultation Service at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and started their Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship. More recently, she has developed a consultation service and a fellowship in Integrative Medicine. She is a founding member of the APA’s Council on Women's Mental Health and was one of the developers of the ACGME’s original Psychosomatic Medicine Milestones. Dr. Becker is Chair of the ABPN’s CLP Exam writing Committee and sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Her multiple Leadership roles in the Academy include Annual Program Chair, Fellowship Education Subcommittee Chair, and Women’s Caucus Co-Chair. She served on the ACLP Board of Directors for 12 years and as President in 2023-2024. She currently is the ACLP representative to the North American Board of Reproductive Psychiatry.
E. Sherwood Brown, MD, PhD, MBA, FACLP
Director, Psychoneuroendocrine Research Program, Vice Chair for Clinical Research, & Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
E. Sherwood Brown has led numerous multidisciplinary teams advancing research on mood disorders and co-occurring conditions. He has authored over 230 publications and been a principal investigator on 26 NIH grants. He also has held leadership roles in national and international professional organizations, including committee membership and/or chair positions in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the Research Society on Alcoholism. In addition, he served on numerous grant review panels for NIH and other funding agencies and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dual Diagnosis. He has served as member and/or chair of multiple ACLP committees, including the Research and Evidence-Based Practice Committee, as well as the editorial board of the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. He has served on the ACLP Board of Directors since 2018, and was President of ACLP 2024-2025, overseeing the transition to a new association management company and improved governance structure.