Board of Directors

President

Sharone Abramowitz, MD, DFASAM
Integrative Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine Private Practice

President-elect

Dana Harris, MD, FASAM
Private Practice/Psychiatry, Los Angeles

Immediate Past President

Karen Anne Miotto, MD, DFASAM
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA Department of Psychiatry, Los Angeles

Treasurer

Neal Mehra, MD, MBA
WellSpace Health, Sacramento

Secretary

Mario San Bartolome, Jr., MD, MBA, MRO, QME, FASAM
Molina Healthcare, Inc., Long Beach

Executive Director

Cheryl Marcell
CA Society of Addiction Medicine, Sacramento

At-Large Member

Mitika Kanabar, MD, MPH, FASAM
Kaiser Permanente, Lancaster

At-Large Member

David Tian, MD, MPP, FASAM
Medical Consultant, California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)

ASAM Region II Director

Itai Danovitch, MD, MBA, DFASAM, DFAPA
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles

CPPPH Representative

Matthew Goldenberg, DO
Psychiatrist & Addiction Treatment Specialist,
Private Practice

MERF Representative

Maureen Strohm, MD, FAAFP, DFASAM
President, Medical Education and Research Foundation (MERF) Board of Directors, HCA Healthcare Sunrise Health GME

Chair, Committee on Government Affairs

Randy Holmes, MD, FAAFP, DFASAM
Medical Director, LACADA

Chair, Committee on Integration and Access to Systems of Care

Ingeborg Schafhalter-Zoppoth, MD
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco

Co-Chair, Committee on Membership & Communications

Chwen-Yuen Angie Chen, MD, FACP, FASAM
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Redwood City 

Chair, Committee on Youth and Prevention

David Kan, MD, DFASAM
Private Practice, Chief Medical Officer, Bright Heart Health

Chair, Committee on Education

Mason Turner, MD, FASAM
Senior Medical Director for Behavioral Health; Intermountain Healthcare

Chair, Committee on Opioids

Matthew A. Torrington, MD, ABAM, ABPM, AAFP, DFASAM
Private Practice, Clinical Research, ACP UCLA School of Nursing

Co-Chair, Committee on Membership & Communications

Jean Marsters, MD
Lifelong Medical Care, Asian Health Services

CSAM Presidents 1983-present

2023 Sharone Abramowitz, MD

2021 Karen Miotto, MD

2019 Anthony Albanese, MD

2017 David Kan, MD

2015 Monika Koch, MD 

2013 Itai Danovitch, MD 

2011 Jeffery Wilkins, MD 

2009 Timmen Cermak, MD 

2007 Judith Martin, MD

2005 David Pating, MD

2003 Donald Kurth, MD 

2001 Gary Jaeger, MD 

1999 Peter Banys, MD 

1997 Gail Shultz, MD 

1995 William Brostoff, MD 

1993 Richard Sandor, MD

1991 Kevin Olden, MD

1989 P. Joseph Frawley, MD 

1988 Garrett O’Connor, MD 

1986 Anthony Radcliffe, MD 

1985 Jess Bromley, MD 

1983 Max Schneider, MD

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