Officers
Jeffrey Newcorn, M.D. – President
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
1st Term: 2016 – 2019
President Elect: 2018 – 2020
President: 2020-2022
Biography
Ann Childress, M.D.– President Elect
Psychiatrist
Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Inc.
1st Term: 2018 – 2021
President Elect: 2020-2022
Biography
Joseph Biederman, M.D. – Past President
Massachusetts General Hospital
1st Term: 2007 – 2015
President Elect: 2016 – 2018
President: 2018 – 2020
Past President: 2020-2022
Biography
He has been the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association Blanche Ittelson Award for Excellence in Child Psychiatric Research, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Charlotte Norbert Rieger Award for Scientific Achievement. He has been inducted into the CHADD “Hall of Fame”. Dr Biederman has also been selected every year since its inception into the “The Best Doctors in America” compilation of the best physicians in the country.
Dr. Biederman has been a mentor to more than 15 junior investigators in the field. He is on the editorial board of multiple journals, a reviewer for most of the Psychiatric journals, and has served as a grant reviewer in the Child Psychopathology and Treatment Review Committee of the NIMH. Dr. Biederman is the author and co-author of close to 600 scientific articles, 650 scientific abstracts, and 70 book chapters.
In 2000, Dr. Biederman pioneered and established a Stanley Foundation Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital dedicated to the treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder. Dr. Biederman was the recipient of the 1998 NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist award. He was also the recipient of the 2002 NARSAD Senior Investigator award. Since 2002 Dr. Biederman has been Associate Editor and from 2005-2006 Deputy Editor for Child Psychiatry in Biological Psychiatry, ranked as the third most impactful scientific journal in Psychiatry. In 2005 Dr. Biederman was appointed Chair of the section on ADHD at the World Psychiatric Association. He was also recently selected by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society Awards committee as the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Research. In 2007, Dr. Biederman received the Excellence in Research Award from the New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He was also awarded the Mentorship Award from the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital in September.
As of March 2007, Dr. Biederman has been ranked as the second highest producer of high-impact papers in psychiatry overall throughout the world with 235 papers cited a total of 7048 times over the past 10 years as determined by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The same organization ranked Dr. Biederman at #1 in terms of total citations to his papers published on ADD/ADHD in the past decade. Dr. Biederman's work is supported by multiple federal and pharmaceutical industry grants.
Tanya Froehlich, M.D.– Treasurer
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
1st Term: 2014 – 2018
2nd Term: 2018 – 2021
Treasurer: 2020-2022
Biography
Dr. Froehlich also enhances care for children with ADHD through teaching and other professional activities. She has served as an invited speaker providing seminars for professionals and workshops for families in international, national, and regional forums. Currently, she serves on the Executive Board for the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders, co-chairs the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics ADHD Special Interest Group, and is an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. In addition, Dr. Froehlich has a strong interest in interprofessional training and mentoring. She is site Principal Investigator for a state-funded grant whose mission is train professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide enhanced care for families on Ohio Medicaid, with a special emphasis on care of developmental and mental health conditions. Dr. Froehlich is also supervisor for a Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disorders interdisciplinary trainee group whose project focuses on elucidating the needs of families in homeless shelters. In addition, Dr. Froehlich serves as Associate Director of the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship as well as the Director of Research Training for the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, where she is Associate Professor of Pediatrics.
Dr. Froehlich is a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, as well as a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and a National Research Service Award fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
David Goodman, M.D. – Secretary
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1st Term: 2016 – 2019
2nd Term: 2019 – 2022
Secretary 2020 – 2022
Board of Directors
Maria Acosta, M.D. *Dr. Acosta is serving in a personal capacity
NHGRI/NIH
1st Term: 2020-2023
Biography
*Dr. Acosta is serving in a personal capacity.
Lenard Adler, M.D.
NYU School of Medicine
President: 2007 – 2011
Past President: 2012 – 2015
1st Term: 2016 – 2019
2nd Term: 2019 – 2022
Biography
Kevin Antshel, Ph.D.
Syracuse University
1st Term: 2019 – 2022
Biography
His research interests focus on understanding the heterogeneity of ADHD, especially ADHD in the context of medical disorders such as 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and phenylketonuria. Clinically, Dr. Antshel has focused on developing and testing innovative psychosocial treatments for adolescents and young adults with ADHD and associated conditions. More recently, Dr. Antshel has focused on issues related to college students with ADHD including how best to reduce stimulant misuse on college campuses.
Dr. Antshel has over 125 peer-reviewed publications, including papers in JAMA Psychiatry, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology and the American Journal of Psychiatry. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Attention Disorders, the ADHD Report and the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. In 2014, he co-edited an issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America with Stephen Faraone, Ph.D. Dr. Antshel has served previously on the Scientific Program Committees for APSARD and the World Congress on ADHD. He regularly serves as a grant reviewer on NIH and international review committees.
Dr. Antshel is interested in joining the APSARD Board of Directors to both give back to APSARD as well as participate in strategic planning for the future.
Anne Arnett, Ph.D.
University of Washington
1st Term: 2020 – 2023
Biography
Jacob Behrens, M.D.
Envision ADHD
1st Term: 2019 – 2022
Biography
During his "mid-thirties crisis," made the difficult decision to leave academic medicine to pursue the start-up of a specialized adult adhd practice where he could more readily adapt and evolve with technology and workflows to both meet unique patient needs as well as the personal need to be "ever searching, ever building, ever growing."
Following graduation, he remained as an assistant clinical professor working in an outpatient setting and teaching UW medical students and residents. In 2016, he moved from Madison, WI to Milwaukee, WI to pursue the startup of Envision ADHD serving as CEO and medical director. He is a co-founder of HealthtechMKE in Milwaukee, WI and is a champion of the physician voice in the health technology space. He is currently serving on the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Healthcare Quality Council and on the board of the American Professional Society of ADHD and related disorders (APSARD). He is past chair of the American Medical Association's Young Physician Section Innovation Committee and past president of the Dane County Medical Society.
Lawrence Brown, M.D.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
1st Term: 2018 – 2021
Biography
Dr. Brown is director of the Pediatric Neuropsychiatry Program, a multidisciplinary clinic for children with complex ADHD, Tourette syndrome, high functioning autism, and genetic disorders. He has been a principal investigator funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health in an international consortium to develop a data bank of well characterized individuals with Tourette syndrome and parents analyzed with whole exome sequencing. In addition, he is a senior clinician in the Sleep Center and Pediatric Regional Epilepsy Program where he has been principal investigator on numerous investigational drug trials.
He is an active member of CNS, AES and AAP (where he served two terms as Chairman of the Section of Neurology) and AAN. He served on the AAP Subcommittee on ADHD which revised guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. In addition to peer reviewed research, Dr. Brown’s publications include associate editorship of Schwartz’s Clinical Handbook of Pediatrics, Fifth Edition, as well as all previous editions. He is a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Neurology. Locally, he served for many years as chairman of the Professional Advisory Board and on the executive board of the Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania. Dr. Brown currently serves on the advisory committee for the Coordinating Center for Children and Youth with Epilepsy for the American Academy of Pediatrics with funding by HRSA and the Maternal Child Health Bureau as well as the data safety committee for the National Institute of Health’s Best Pharmaceutical for Children Act.
Almost 25 years ago he began a collaboration with the future APSARD president Tony Rostain to scientifically and comprehensively address the needs of children with neuropsychiatric problems. Since then, together and individually, they have worked tirelessly with this population. He is convinced that neurologists are crucial members of any effort to address developmental behavioral, emotional and cognitive brain disorders. They are the natural partners of pediatricians and psychiatrists as well as all who support the potential of all children with ADHD and related conditions. He wants to bring the voice of child neurology to APSARD and to promote the importance of APSARD to all child neurologists.
Thomas Brown, Ph.D.
Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California
1st Term: 2017 – 2020
2nd Term: 2020-2023
Biography
Betsy Busch, M.D., FAAP
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Tufts University School of Medicine
1st Term: 2007 – 2009
Secretary: 2010 – 2018
2nd Term: 2018 – 2021
Biography
A well-known specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of children, adolescents and young adults with ADHD and related learning and behavioral disorders, Dr. Busch is in demand as a thought leader, clinical expert, dynamic teacher and consultant. She served for 10 years on the Tufts Medical Center Institutional Review Board. She is an experienced clinical researcher and author of numerous scientific publications and online commentaries. Dr. Busch is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Attention Disorders, and is an invited peer reviewer for a dozen other scientific journals. She has served on Clinical Advisory Boards and/or Speakers Bureaus for Akili Interactive, Alcobra, Ltd., Cephalon, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen, Next Wave, NLS Pharma, Pfizer, Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, Shire/Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Shionogi, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Supernus Pharmaceuticals and Tris Pharmaceuticals. She also is a certified examiner for Major-Minor League Baseball and the National Football League.
Dr. Busch has been an active member of APSARD since its inception, and served as the Secretary of the Board of Directors from 2010-2018. She has served on the Executive Committee, was the Co-Chair of the Program Committee, Chair of the Nominating Committee, and she currently serves on APSARD's Education Steering Committee.
In addition to her work for APSARD, Dr. Busch serves as a Trustee of Tufts University and is on the Board of Advisors for the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. She also is a gubernatorial appointee to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Children’s Trust, a private-public partnership dedicated to preventing child maltreatment. Her work in this area was recently recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds when she was honored with the 2015 Ray E. Helfer, M.D. Award. She currently also serves as a grant reviewer for the Cummings Foundation, Inc.
Sam Goldstein, Ph.D.
Journal of Attention Disorders
1st Term: 2014 – 2018
Biography
John Heiligenstein, M.D.
Pharmaceutical Industry
1st Term: 2014 – 2018
2nd Term: 2018 – 2021
Biography
Beth Krone, Ph.D.
Clinical Research Coordinator-Post Doc
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
1st Term: 2018 – 2021
Biography
Frances Levin, M.D.
Columbia University
1st Term: 2020 – 2023
Biography
She is the principal investigator on several federally funded grants, including a U54 Medications Development grant evaluating novel treatments for opiate and cannabis use disorders, a K24 Mid-Career Investigator Award and collaborates on several other grants. Her current research interests include pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment interventions for cocaine and marijuana use disorder, and treatment approaches for adults with substance use disorders and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder along with other psychiatric illnesses. Dr. Levin has over 200 articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics including treatments of substance use disorders, assessment and treatment of co-occurring psychiatric illnesses and vulnerabilities associated with substance use disorders. She has served on several advisory panels and ad-hoc federal grant review groups and was as a member of the NIDA – Initial Review Group: Training and Career Development Subcommittee for 8 years and served as a member to the NIDA Interventions to Prevent and Treat Addiction (IPTA). She is an editorial board member of three journals, past President of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and past Chair of the APA Council on Addiction Psychiatry.
Greg Mattingly, M.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
1st Term: 2014 – 2018
2nd Term: 2019 – 2022
Biography
Dr. Mattingly graduated Summa Cum Laude in chemical engineering before pursuing his medical degree at Washington University where he received a Fullbright Scholarship. He then completed his psychiatry residency at Washington University and is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is board certified in psychiatry with a subspecialty in adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Mattingly has received numerous awards and distinctions including the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry National Leadership Award, the Upjohn Neuropsychiatry Research Award, and the Southern Psychiatric Association
Research Award.
As a principal investigator in over 300 clinical trials, he has been an invited presenter at numerous national and international medical conferences. Having served as a certified examiner for both the NFL and MLB, Dr. Mattingly also sits on the board of directors for Headway House; a “club house” program for individuals with developmental disabilities and chronic mental health conditions in St Louis. Dr. Mattingly’s work has been published in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, The Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Current Psychiatry, CNS
Spectrums and Postgraduate Medicine.
Dr. Mattingly has dedicated the past 25 years of his career to caring for children, adolescents and adults with ADHD and associated conditions. His work on medical education in ADHD received the “Best Poster Award” at this year’s ADHD World Congress in Vancouver. Most importantly, as a parent of a child with developmental disabilities, Dr. Mattingly understands the ongoing need for improved coordination of research, education and clinical care for our patients and their families.
Keither McBurnett, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
1st Term: 2017 – 2020
2nd Term: 2020-2023
Biography
Brooke Molina, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh
1st Term: 2018 – 2021
Biography
Andrew Nierenberg, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
1st Term: 2016 – 2019
2nd Term: 2019 – 2022
Biography
Joel Nigg, Ph.D.
Center for ADHD Research at Oregon Health & Science University
1st Term: 2020 – 2023
Biography
Anthony Rostain, M.D., M.A.
Director of Education, Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
1st Term: 2007 – 2011
President: 2012 – 2015
Past President: 2016 – 2018
2nd Term: 2018 – 2021
Biography
Dr. Rostain is the Director of the Adult Development Disorders Unit (Penn Behavioral Health) which includes the Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program and the Adult Social Learning Disorders Program. He is also Director of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Behavioral Health Center’s Developmental Neuropsychiatry Program. Dr. Rostain is also a faculty member in the Center for Neuroscience and Society where he participates in research seminars and teaches about clinical applications and ethical aspects of cognitive neuroscience. Most recently, he has been active in addressing the growing trend toward nonmedical use of stimulants for cognitive enhancement.
Dr. Rostain's research interests have focused on improving clinical outcomes for patients with ADHD and other neuropsychiatric disorders, and in creating effective service systems for high risk children, youth and families. He completed a study of combined medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for adults with ADHD which served as the basis of a textbook on this topic. He is currently involved in studies of differential therapeutic efficacy of medication and CBT, of developmental processes in young adults with ADHD, of predictors of treatment response for patients with co-morbid conditions such as anxiety and substance abuse.
Dr. Rostain holds several leadership positions in national professional organizations. He is President of the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD), is a National Board member of Children and Adults with ADHD (CHADD), and is on the Executive Council of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT) for which he chairs the Model Curriculum Committee. He also recently completed teaching a seminar on Coursera.org called “Pay Attention: ADHD Through the Lifespan.”
Mary Solanto, Ph.D.
New York University School of Medicine
1st Term: 2016 – 2019
2nd Term: 2019 – 2022
Biography
Dr. Solanto’s research on the cognitive and behavioral functioning of children with ADHD, the effects of psychostimulants, and characteristics of the subtypes of ADHD has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases, the
National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr. Solanto has also worked extensively with adults with ADHD. She developed a novel cognitive-behavioral intervention which targets problems of time-management and organization in adults with ADHD and which was the focus of an NIMH-sponsored treatment efficacy study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The manual for therapists, titled Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Dysfunction was published in 2011 (Guilford Press).
Dr. Solanto is active in clinical work with adults and children, and in the training of psychiatrists and psychologists to diagnose and treat AD/HD and related disorders. She has conducted workshops with parents concerning identification and treatment of children with AD/HD, and has presented to adult self-help organizations on strategies to improve organization and self-management. Dr. Solanto has published numerous scholarly papers concerning ADHD in children and adults and is a frequent reviewer for professional journals. She has served as a grant reviewer for NIMH. Currently, she is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Attention Disorders and The ADHD Report. She serves on the professional advisory boards of CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD) and NCLD (National Center for Learning Disabilities). Dr. Solanto edited a volume (with Amy Arnsten and Xavier Castellanos) titled: Stimulant Drugs and ADHD: Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, (Oxford University Press), which is an investigation of the mechanisms of action of stimulants in ADHD.
Mark Stein, Ph.D.
Secretary: 2008-2010
President Elect: 2014-2016
President: 2016-2018
Past President: 2018-2020
1st Term: 2020-2023
Biography
His clinical work and teaching emphasis is on differential diagnoses and multidisciplinary treatment planning of ADHD throughout the lifespan. He has trained hundreds of pediatricians, psychologists, and psychiatrists who have rotated through the HALP and now the PEARL Clinic, and has evaluated thousands of children, adolescents, and adults.
Dr. Stein has over 100 publications, including articles in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Pediatrics, Nature Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1999, he coedited the text book, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity in Children and Adults. Dr. Stein is on the editorial board for Journal of Attention Disorders and Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. Dr. Stein has received research support from the National Institute of Health, the Smart Family Foundation, and industry.
He has done significant work on medical mimics of ADHD, such a sleep problems and thyroid disease, adaptive dysfunction, dose response and comparative efficacy of ADHD medications, and molecular genetics. Along with collaborators, Drs. Jeffrey Newcorn, Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, Margaret Weiss, and Tanya Froehlich, current work is on treating ADHD in parents, novel treatments, sleep, and personalizing ADHD treatment.
Dr. Stein is a former member of the CHADD National Advisory Board and research editor of Attention magazine. HE has been a board member of APSARD since its founding, and has been on the executive committee for three years, and co-director of the annual meeting for the past 2 years.
Craig Surman, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
1st Term: 2014 – 2018
2nd Term: 2018 – 2021
Biography
Roberta Waite, Ed.D., R.N.
Drexel University
1st Term: 2016 – 2019
2nd Term: 2019 – 2022
Biography
Currently, Dr. Waite serves as a Board of Director for Corporate Trinity Health, which serves people in 21 states with 82 hospitals; 89 continuing care facilities, home health, and hospice programs. She is also on several editorial boards for nursing and interdisciplinary journals.