ABOUT ANPA

The American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) is a non-profit organization of professionals in behavioral neurology, neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, and the clinical neurosciences. Established in 1988, ANPA has grown to over 500 members from around the world. ANPA's mission is to improve the lives of people with disorders at the interface of psychiatry and neurology.


MISSION

To improve the lives of people with disorders at the interface of psychiatry and neurology


VISION

ANPA will transform recognition, understanding and treatment of all neuropsychiatric disorders


WHAT IS NEUROPSYCHIATRY?

A scientific field

When used to refer to a scientific field, neuropsychiatry is the integrated study of psychiatric and neurologic disorders. This definition of neuropsychiatry does not connote a particular type of educational background or professional training; instead, it refers broadly and inclusively of the work performed any basic or clinical scientist, educator, clinician, public policy maker, or other individual that seeks to advance our understanding of the neurological bases of psychiatric disorders, the psychiatric manifestations of neurological disorders, and/or the evaluation and care of persons with neurologically based behavioral disturbances. In other words, one’s work can be neuropsychiatric regardless of whether one is trained as a neuropsychiatrist.

A medical subspecialty

When used to refer to a medical subspecialty, neuropsychiatry is one of the two historically separate but parallel clinical disciplines that comprise the medical subspecialty known currently as Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry. While the knowledge base and clinical skills of behavioral neurologists and neuropsychiatrists are built upon on the foundation established by primary training in one or both of these specialties, expertise and clinical competence in Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry requires experience specific to the evaluation, differential diagnosis, prognosis, pharmacological treatment, psychosocial management, and neurorehabilitation of persons with complex neuropsychiatric and neurobehavioral conditions.


ANPA Officers

David Arciniegas, MD, FANPA - President (2023 - 2025)
Director of Evaluation and Research, Marcus Institute for Brain HealthProfessor of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Editor, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Aurora, CO

Kaloyan Tanev, MD, FANPA - Immediate Past President (2023 - 2025)

Chief Medical Officer, The Home Base Program

Senior Director of Research, The Home Base Program

Medical Director, MGH TBI Clinical and Research Program

Director of Clinical Neuropsychiatry Research, MGH

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA 


Colin Harrington, MD, FANPA - President Elect (2023 - 2025)

Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service and Neuropsychiatry Education

Rhode Island Hospital 

Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

Director, CNS-Psychiatry Clerkship

Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine

Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University


Margo Lauterbach, MD, FANPA - Treasurer (2023 - Present)

Director, Concussion Clinic

Sub-Investigator, Institute for Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Sheppard Pratt

Baltimore, MD


ANPA Council Members


2022 - 2025

Joey Cooper, MD, FANPA

Katherine Brownlowe, MD, FANPA


2023 - 2026

David L Perez, MD, FANPA

Kevin J Black, MD FANPA


2024 - 2027

Omar Ghaffar, MD, FANPA

Shirlene Sampson, MD, FANPA


View a list of past councilors


The ANPA condemns injustice and deplores the pernicious impact of systematic racism on the patients we serve. Since its inception over 30 years ago the ANPA and, most especially the patients served, have benefited from the diversity of its membership - the ANPA has members spanning the globe committed to the wellbeing of all communities.   Our mission of improving the lives of people with neuropsychiatric disorders allows ANPA to address the societal inequities that are barriers to good health and well-being.  We stand with those who express outrage over institutionalized racism and police brutality, and add our voice to the demand for social justice for all people, now.  The ANPA is committed to caring for the mental and physical health of all people regardless of race, religion, gender or nationality.  

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