Leadership

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

Sultan Simms, MD

Atlanta

Lisa Rudolph-Watson, MD
Thomasville

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

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