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Past presidents
Recent years
Associate Professor Vinay Lakra
President (2021–2023)
Associate Professor John Allan
President 2019–2021
Dr Kym Jenkins AM
President 2017–2019
Professor Malcolm Hopwood
Ramsay Health Care Professor of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and President 2015 - 2017
Dr Murray Patton
President 2013 - 2015
Dr Maria Tomasic
President 2010 - 2013
Professor Louise Newman
President 2009 - 2010
Dr Richard Prytula
President 2009
Professor Ken Kirby
President 2007 - 2009
Dr Julian Freidin
President 2005 - 2007
Emeritus Professor Philip Boyce
President 2003 - 2005
Dr Wayne Miles
President 2001–2003
Associate Professor Jonathan Phillips
President 1999–2001
1980 - 2000
Dr Janice Wilson
President 1997–1999
Dr George Lipton
President 1995–1997
Dr Noel Wilton
President 1993–1995
Associate Professor Norman James OAM
President 1991–1993
Dr Karen Zelas
President 1989–1991
Dr Joan Lawrence
President 1987–1989
Dr Peter Eisen
President 1985–1987
Professor Beverley Raphel
President 1983–1985
Dr Brian Shae
President 1981–1983
Professor Richard Ball
President 1979–1981
1946 - 1979
Professor Basil James
President 1977–1979
Maurice Sainsbury
President 1973
Dr Arch Ellis
President 1975
Professor David Maddison
President 1974
Dr Russell Partiger
President 1973–1974
Dr Wallace Ironside
President 1972
Dr Bruce Peterson
President 1971
Dr Alan Stoller
President 1970
Dr John Cade AO
President 1969
Dr Stanley Mirams
President 1968
Dr Isobel Williams
President 1967
Dr Ian Simpson
President 1966
Dr William Dibden
President 1965
Dr Eric Cunningham Dax AO
President 1964
Professor Reginald Medlicott
President 1963
Dr Vincent Youngman
President 1962
Dr John Russell
President 1961
Dr Harry Southwood
President 1960
Dr Alex Sinclair
President 1959
Dr Ernest John Thompson
President 1958
Dr Cedric Swanton
President 1957
Dr Geoffrey Blake-Palmer
President 1955
Dr John Adey OBE
President 1954
Dr Basil Stafford
President 1953
Dr Hugh McIntyre Birch
President 1952
John Williams
President 1951
Dr Desmond Arnott
President 1950
Dr Charles Brothers
President 1949
Professor John Bostock
President 1948
Dr Henry Maudsley
President 1947 and 1956
Dr William Dawson
President 1946
