American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry

What American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry does

The American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry (AACDP) is a private nonprofit professional membership association representing chairs of departments of psychiatry at medical schools in the United States and Canada. Its mission is to promote excellence in psychiatric education, research, and clinical care, and to advocate for health policy that supports appropriate and affordable psychiatric care. The organization's core product is annual individual membership — priced at $650 for Chairs and Hospital/Health System Chairs and $350 for Vice/Associate Chairs on a July 1 – June 30 cycle — supplemented by the inaugural AACDP/AAP Joint Master Leadership Program launching in September 2026 as a paid one-year leadership development course. Distribution is self-serve through the aacdp.org website (powered by Wild Apricot), with two in-person meetings per year (Spring, typically May, and Fall) and a semi-monthly Chairs' Brief newsletter serving as the primary engagement touchpoints.

AACDP monetizes primarily through recurring membership dues, which the organization explicitly identifies as its primary source of revenue. Bundled benefits include a subscription to the Academic Psychiatry journal, listserv access to more than 100 chairs, complimentary and reduced-fee job postings, orientation sessions for new chairs, networking sessions for female chairs, workshops for associate members, and advocacy representation (e.g., helping APPI reduce SCID-5 licensing fees for academic use). The newest revenue line is the co-developed AACDP/AAP Joint Master Leadership Program with the American Academy of Pediatrics, which charges $550 for AACDP/AAP individual members and $1,000 for non-members for a structured year-long curriculum with in-person workshops in September and May and virtual sessions from October through April. Operationally, AACDP is lean: it runs from an executive office at 15 Shatzell Ave., #217, Rhinecliff, NY, led by an Executive Director (Elise M. Barry, MS, CFRE) and an elected volunteer officer corps including President Mauricio Tohen, MD, DrPH, MBA and President-elect James Potash, MD. The technology stack is a standard SaaS membership platform (Wild Apricot); no proprietary technology, AI/ML capabilities, or external equity funding is indicated.

Name

American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry

Legal name

American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry

Website

https://aacdp.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

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Product category

Professional Association Services

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Association & Society Conference Management (Nonprofit, Professional Bodies) (THAHACAA)

Keywords

• Professional association membership
• Medical education leadership
• Psychiatry department chairs
• Leadership development programs
• Professional networking services

Headquarters

HQ city

Dallas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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B2B

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Services

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Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership dues are the primary revenue source, enabling the organization to host two meetings annually and provide administrative oversight. Membership year runs July 1 - June 30 and is not prorated.

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Core offering

AACDP is a membership-based professional association for Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry at medical schools in the United States and Canada. Its core deliverable is annual membership (priced at $650 for Chairs and $350 for Vice/Associate Chairs) bundled with peer networking, semi-annual meetings, leadership development programming, and advocacy representation for the psychiatry leadership community.

Product overview

AACDP (American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry) is a professional membership organization serving leaders of departments of psychiatry in US and Canada medical schools. The organization's offerings include annual membership (Chair, Hospital Chair, and Vice/Associate Chair tiers), the AACDP-AAP Joint Master Leadership Program as a structured year-long development initiative, semi-annual meetings (Spring and Fall), and membership benefits including Academic Psychiatry journal subscription, the Chairs' Brief semi-monthly e-newsletter, listserv access to over 100 peers, orientation sessions for new chairs, networking sessions, and advocacy support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AACDP Membership
• AACDP-AAP Joint Master Leadership Program
• Semi-Annual Meetings (Spring and Fall)
• Job Postings Service

Quantifiable outcome

• Access to 100+ chairs via listserv
• +1 more outcomes

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAACDP partnered with AAP to create the inaugural AACDP/AAP Joint Master Leadership Program. This one-year leadership development program includes in-person workshops held in September and May to coincide with AACDP meetings, plus virtual workshops. Topics include Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Managing Department Finances, Leading UME and GME Initiatives, Grantsmanship and Research, Advocacy and Partnership Development, and Clinical Program Design.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

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Direct peers

• Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC): AMSPDC is the direct pediatric analogue of AACDP: an association of chairs of pediatrics departments at US and Canadian medical schools. It shares the same membership-association model, annual dues structure, semi-annual meetings, and listserv/networking format, making it the most structurally comparable peer.
• American College of Psychiatrists: The American College of Psychiatrists is an honorary professional society within psychiatry that focuses on leadership, scholarship, and education among distinguished psychiatrists. It overlaps AACDP's leadership-development mission and serves a closely related subset of senior academic psychiatrists.
• Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM): SAEM represents academic emergency medicine leaders and educators and operates as a membership-based professional society with semi-annual meetings, journal access, and leadership development programming — a near-identical operating model to AACDP but in the emergency medicine specialty.
• Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM): SGIM is an academic internal medicine society with a membership model, annual meetings, journal, and committee-based leadership development that closely parallels AACDP's structure, although it serves general internists and academic IM leaders rather than psychiatrists.
• Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO): AUPO is a membership association of chairs and directors of academic ophthalmology programs, with a similar dues-based model, semi-annual meetings, and peer-networking focus. It is one of the closest structural analogues to AACDP outside of psychiatry and pediatrics.
• Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (AACEM): AACEM is specifically the chairs-of-departments component within emergency medicine, mirroring AACDP's narrow focus on psychiatry chairs. Comparable membership structure, dues model, and semi-annual meetings aligned with parent SAEM events.

Broad incumbents

• Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS): CMSS is an umbrella organization of US medical specialty societies including ones serving chairs and academic leaders. It does not directly compete with AACDP but operates in the same ecosystem of medical-specialty governance, education, and advocacy.
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): AAP is AACDP's explicit partner on the AACDP-AAP Joint Master Leadership Program. As the broad pediatrics professional society, it overlaps with pediatric chair associations like AMSPDC and provides a useful analogue of how a larger specialty society partners with a chairs-only association for leadership programming.
• American Psychiatric Association (APA): APA is the broad professional society for all psychiatrists, with much larger membership, meetings, and publishing operations. It overlaps AACDP's constituency (psychiatrists, including academic leaders) but serves the entire profession rather than only chairs of departments.
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC): AAMC is the large umbrella association for US medical schools and academic medicine, including leadership councils for department chairs. It serves a much broader constituency than AACDP but is a key convening body that AACDP members interact with.

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