CPS Leadership Council 2024-2025

Executive Committee

President

Paul Bryant, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Bryant has used his child-forensic expertise in both his educational endeavors and in his clinical work as a Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services consulting forensic psychiatrist. 
(Term: 2024-2025)
 

President-Elect 

Jessica Abellard, M.D., is a geriatric forensic psychiatrist who serves as Medical Director of Geriatric Behavioral Services at Cornell Scott Hill Health Center. She has extensive experience in psychotic and cognitive disorders and is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine. 
(Term: 2024-2025)

 
Treasurer

Ayala Danzig, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. She is a Leadership Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Rappeport Fellow of the American Association of Psychiatry and the Law. 
(Term: 2024-2025)

Secretary

Andrew J. Gerber, MD, PhD is an adult and child and adolescent psychiatrist and serves as President and Medical Director of Silver Hill Hospital, a private non-profit psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut. Dr. Gerber is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and at Columbia University. 
(Term: 2024-2025) 

Immediate Past President, APA Representative

Tichianaa Armah, M.D., is the Chief Psychiatric Officer of the Community Health Center Inc. in New Haven. Dr. Armah has made an enduring commitment to community engagement and empowering youths to pursue careers in medicine and the mental health field. 
(APA Rep Term: 2024-2027)

 Councilors-At-Large (2 year term)

Ruby Lekwauwa, M.D., is an experienced expert in child and adolescent psychiatry who has served as a clinical leader and has been highly engaged in residency training. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and Medical Director of the YNHH Branford Adolescent Day Hospital.
(Term: 2023-2025)

Vacant
(Term: 2024-2026)

Representatives to the APA Assembly (3 year term)

Caren Teitelbaum, M.D., is a senior staff psychiatrist at the Institute of Living in Hartford.
(Term: 2022-2025)
 

Tobias Wasser, M.D., is a clinician-educator whose scholarly work focuses on research, education, and leadership at the intersections of forensic and public-sector mental health systems. He currently serves as the Deputy Medical Director for Community and Forensic Psychiatry for Yale-New Haven Hospital and Assistant Chair for Program Development in the Yale Psychiatry Department. 
(Term: 2023-2026)

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