2025 Nominations for SBSM Leadership Positions

We encourage all SBSM members to nominate themselves or other SBSM members for the key leadership positions of:

President-elect (1 position)

Secretary-Treasurer (1 position)
Council Member (1 positions)
Nominating Committee Member-at-Large (1 position)

The general qualifications for candidates for these positions may be found here.

We invite self-nominations and suggestions as the Nominating Committee may consider nominees for any available position.  Please note if you think a nominee would be a particularly strong candidate for a certain position.

More than one name may be submitted for any position.  For your reference, the current Council, the current Nominating Committee and a list of Past Leaders (Council Members and Presidents) are shown below.

Please submit nominations here by November 2^nd.

Sincerely,
Tara Gruenewald, PhD, MPH
SBSM President, 2024-2025

SBSM Council

Tara Gruenewald, PhD, MPH President (2025)

Janet Tomiyama, PhD President-Elect (2025)  

Peter Gianaros, PhD Past President (2025)

Anna Whittaker, PhD  Secretary-Treasurer (2025)  

Christopher Celano, MD (2026)  

Nataria Joseph, PhD (2027)

Daryl O’Connor, PhD (2025)

Michael Stanton, PhD (2026)

Ali Weinstein, PhD (2027)

Nominating Committee

Tara Gruenewald, PhD, MPH, Chair (President: 2025)  

Mary Frances O’Connor, PhD (2027)

Peter Gianaros, PhD (Past President: 2025)

Tasneem Khambaty, PhD (2025)

Maria Llabre, PhD (2026)  

Michael Stanton, PhD (Council Representative: 2024)

SBSM Past Leaders (since 1990)
(* = Past/Current Presidents)
Mustafa al’Absi, PhD *

Michael H. Antoni, PhD

Arthur J. Barsky, MD

James A. Blumenthal, PhD*

Dana H. Bovbjerg, PhD

Joan  Broderick, PhD

Jos F. Brosschot, PhD

Oliver G. Cameron, MD, PhD*

Douglas Carroll, PhD

Stephanie Cavanaugh, MD

Edith Chen, PhD

Margaret A. Chesney, PhD*

Steven Cole, MD

Erin Costanzo, PhD

Francis Hunter Creed, MD

Lisa Christian, PhD

Hugo D. Critchley, DPhil, FRCPsych

Joel E. Dimsdale, MD*

Douglas A. Drossman, MD*

Jean Endicott, PhD*

Susan Everson-Rose, PhD*

Ann Maxwell Eward, PhD

Nancy Frasure-Smith, PhD*

Kenneth E. Freedland, PhD

Peter Gianaros, PhD*

Susan S. Girdler, PhD

Paige Green, PhD, MPH*

Donna B. Greenberg, MD

Tara Gruenewald, PhD*

Harald Gündel, MD

Martica Hall, PhD*

Sidney Hart, MD

Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, MD *

Myron Hofer, MD*

Jeff Huffman, MD

Gail Ironson, MD, PhD*

Jane Irvine, DPhil

Michael R. Irwin, MD*

J. Richard Jennings, PhD*

Charles Jonassaint, PhD

Gaston Kapuku MD, PhD

Francis Keefe, PhD

Willem J. Kop, PhD

Donald Kornfeld, MD*

David S. Krantz, PhD

Ian Kronish, MD

Kurt Kroenke, MD

David J. Kupfer, MD

Richard D. Lane, MD, PhD*

Jane Leserman, PhD

Francois Lesperance, MD

Susan B. Levenstein, MD

Norman B. Levy, MD

Tené Lewis, PhD*

Kathleen C. Light, PhD

Don Lipsitt, MD

Maria M. Llabre, PhD

Steven E. Locke, MD*

William R. Lovallo, PhD*

Mark A. Lumley, PhD

Susan K. Lutgendorf, PhD*

Karen A. Matthews, PhD*

Scott Matthews, MD

Paul J. Mills, PhD*

Matthew F. Muldoon, MD, MPH*

Keely Muscatel, PhD

Urs Markus Nater, PhD

Dennis H. Novack, MD*

Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD

Herbert N. Ochitill, MD

Donald Oken, MD*

Lynda H. Powell, PhD

Leo Pozuelo, MD

Richard Rahe, MD*

Bruce L. Rollman, MD

Robert Rose, MD

Kristin Salomon, PhD*

Carolyn E. Schwartz, ScD

Suzanne C. Segerstrom, PhD, MPH *

Peter A. Shapiro, MD*

Daichi Shimbo, MD

Peter M. Silberfarb, MD

Richard P. Sloan, PhD

Timothy W. Smith, PhD

Joshua M. Smyth, PhD

Marvin Stein, MD*

Arthur A. Stone, PhD

Julian F. Thayer, PhD

Janet Tomiyama, PhD*

Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD

Roland von Känel, MD

Tor Wager, PhD

Shari R. Waldstein, PhD*

Karen L. Weihs, MD*

Anna Whittaker, PhD

Redford B. Williams, MD *

Thomas N. Wise, MD *

Lawson R. Wulsin, MD

Michael Ziegler, MD