NYCPS Leadership

The New York County Psychiatric Society is governed by an elected Executive Council composed of member psychiatrists. Click here to see a list of past Presidents dating back to 1953.

2026-2027 Executive Council

PRESIDENT:
Rebecca Capasso, M.D.

PRESIDENT-ELECT:
Nery Diaz, D.O.

SECRETARY:
Marissa Goldberg, D.O.

TREASURER:
Jacob Appel, M.D., J.D.

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT:
Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, M.D., D.Phil.

COUNCIL MEMBERS:
Raina Aggarwal, M.D.
Nicholas Apping, M.D.
Vicente Liz, M.D.
Sean Lynch, M.D.
Kevin Qosja, M.D.
Mardoche Sidor, M.D.
German Velez, M.D.

REPRESENTATIVES:
Karen Dionesotes, M.D. MPH
Robert Gadomski, D.O.
Daniel Safin, M.D.
Anil Thomas, M.D.
Jose Vito, M.D.

NYCPS Staff

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Meagan O’Toole, J.D., C.A.E.

PROGRAM & ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR
Alyson Cozzolina, MPH

PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Kryst Notaro

Past Presidents

2025-2026 Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, M.D., D.Phil.
2024-2025 Alan Rodriguez Penney, M.D.
2023-2024 Mena Mirhom, M.D.
2022-2023 Jeremy Kidd, M.D., M.P.H.
2021-2022 Danielle Kushner, M.D.
2020-2021 Vicente Liz, M.D.
2019-2020 David Roane, M.D.
2018-2019 Brent Chabus, M.D.
2017-2018 Anna Costakis, M.D.
2016-2017 Daniel Safin, M.D.
2015-2016 Jose Vito, M.D.
2014-2015 David Brody, M.D.
2013-2014 Julie Schulman, M.D.
2012-2013 Jack Hirschowitz, M.D.
2011-2012 Craig Katz, M.D.
2010-2011 Silvia Hafliger, M.D.
2009-2010 Evaristo Akerele, M.D.
2008-2009 Jeffrey Freedman, M.D.
2007-2008 Petros Levounis, M.D.
2006-2007 Kenneth Ashley, M.D.
2005-2006 Michael Serby, M.D.
2004-2005 Scott Masters, M.D.
2003-2004 Vivian Pender, M.D.
2002-2003 Eric Marcus, M.D.
2001-2002 Brian Ladds, M.D.
2000-2001 Jack Drescher, M.D.
1999-2000 Marvin Nierenberg, M.D.
1998-1999 David Hellerstein, M.D.
1997-1998 William Tucker, M.D.
1996-1997 Richard Rosenthal, M.D.
1995-1996 Barbara Bess, M.D.
1994-1995 Barbara Rosenfeld, M.D.
1993-1994 Barbara Bess, M.D.
1992-1993 Marlin Mattson, M.D.
1991-1992 Bruce Ballard, M.D.
1990-1991 Steven Katz, M.D.
1989-1990 John Oldham, M.D.
1988-1989 Arnold Cooper, M.D.
1987-1988 John Rosenberger, M.D.
1986-1987 Victor Goldin, M.D.
1985-1986 Naomi Goldstein, M.D.
1984-1985 Arthur Meyerson, M.D.
1983-1984 Henry Weinstein, M.D.
1982-1983 Jacques Quen, M.D.
1981-1982 Michael Kalogreakis, M.D.
1980-1981 Victor Teichner, M.D.
1979-1980 William Frosch, M.D.
1978-1979 Winfred Overholser, M.D.
1977-1978 Eugene Feigelson, M.D.
1976-1977 Elizabeth Davis, M.D.
1975-1976 Robert Campbell, M.D.
1974-1975 Stuart Keill, M.D.
1973-1974 Alexander Thomas, M.D.
1972-1973 James Cattell, M.D.
1971-1972 Abraham Franzblau, M.D.
1970-1971 Oscar Diamond, M.D.
1969-1970 Sidney Malitz, M.D.
1968-1969 Louis Linn, M.D.
1967-1968 Alfred Freedman, M.D.
1966-1967 Arthur Zitrin, M.D.
1965-1966 Harvey Tompkins, M.D.
1964-1965 Frank Curran, M.D.
1963-1964 Marvin Stern, M.D.
1962-1963 Henriette Klein, M.D. (First female President)
1961-1962 Lawrence Kolb, M.D.
1960-1961 S.B. Wortis, M.D.
1959-1960 John Cotton, M.D.
1958-1959 Sol Ginsburg, M.D.
1957-1958 William Horwitz, M.D.
1956-1957 Curtis Prout, M.D.
1955-1956 M.R. Kaufman, M.D.
1954-1955 Morris Herman, M.D.
1953-1954 Morris Herman, M.D.