NNDC Welcomes New Board Members & Officers in 2021
Each year the NNDC conducts reappointments for approximately half of our Board of Directors, who serve two-year terms and are appointed by their university’s Department of Psychiatry chair. We also conduct elections for board officers whose terms are up. We are pleased to report the results of this year’s officer elections and board reappointments:
Officer Election Results
- Steve Strakowski, MD – Treasurer (Re-elected)
- Mark Frye, MD – Secretary (New)
- Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD – Member-at-Large (New)
- C. Neill Epperson, MD – Member-at-Large (New)
Drs. Strakowski, Frye, Ajilore, and Epperson join continuing board officers Ray DePaulo, MD (Chair), Sandra Weiss, PhD, DNSc, FAAN (Vice Chair), and Jair Soares, MD, PhD (Member-at-Large) who continue on in their roles.
Thank you to our outgoing officers Shirlene Sampson, MD (Treasurer), William Coryell, MD (Member-at-Large), and Mark Rapaport, MD (Member-at-Large) for your years of service on the NNDC Executive Committee!
New Board Members
- Jorge Almeida, MD, PhD – University of Texas at Austin
- C. Neill Epperson, MD – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Faith Gunning, PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College
- Patricio Riva Posse, MD – Emory University
- Kimberly Yonkers, MD – University of Massachusetts
Thank you to outgoing board members Frank deGruy, MD (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Sheldon Benjamin, MD (University of Massachusetts), Marisa Toups, MD (formerly University of Texas at Austin), James Kocsis, MD (Weill Cornell Medical College), and Mark Rapaport, MD (formerly Emory University).
Reappointed Board Members
- Caleb Adler, MD – University of Cincinnati & Lindner Center of HOPE
- Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD – University of Illinois at Chicago
- David Axelson, MD – The Ohio State University
- Katherine Burdick, PhD – Brigham & Women’s Hospital
- David Casey, MD – University of Louisville
- William Coryell, MD – University of Iowa
- J. Raymond DePaulo, MD – Johns Hopkins University
- Marc Dubin, MD, PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College
- Mark Frye, MD – Mayo Clinic
- John Greden, MD – University of Michigan
- Adriana Hermida, MD – Emory University
- Joao de Quevedo, MD, PhD – University of Texas-Houston
- Christopher Schneck, MD – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Jair Soares, MD, PhD – University of Texas-Houston
- Carolyn Turvey, PhD – University of Iowa
- Owen Wolkowitz, MD – University of California San Francisco
Continuing Board Members (Not up for reappointment this year)
- Regina Bussing, MD – University of Florida
- Susan Conroy, MD, PhD – Indiana University
- Melissa DelBello, MD – University of Cincinnati & Lindner Center of HOPE
- Dwight Evans, MD – University of Pennsylvania
- Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
- Anand Kumar, MD, MHA – University of Illinois at Chicago
- Carol Mathews, MD – University of Florida
- Thomas McAllister, MD – Indiana University
- Sagar Parikh, MD, FRCPC – University of Michigan
- Luan Phan, MD – The Ohio State University
- Scott Rauch, MD – McLean Hospital
- Anthony Rothschild, MD – University of Massachusetts
- Moira Rynn, MD – Duke University
- Shirlene Sampson, MD – Mayo Clinic
- Alan Schatzberg, MD – Stanford University
- Steve Strakowski, MD – University of Texas at Austin
- Michael Thase, MD – University of Pennsylvania
- Richard Weiner, MD, PhD – Duke University
- Sandra Weiss, PhD, DNSc, FAAN – University of California San Francisco
- Jesse Wright, MD, PhD – University of Louisville