Executive Committee

Officers

Dr. Katherine N. Maloney – Chair 2023
Professor
Point Loma Nazarene University
Department of Chemistry

Dr. Angie R. Angeles – Chair Elect 2023
Head of Process Chemistry
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego

Dr. Lamont Terrell – Past Chair 2023
Inclusion and Diversity Lead, Pharma R&D
GlaxoSmithKline

Dr. Ashis Saha – Treasurer 2023-2026
Drug Discovery & Medicinal Chemistry Consulting
Principal, Saha Discovery

Dr. Robert E. Maleczka, Jr. – Past Treasurer 2018-2022
Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University

Dr. Scott Sieburth – Secretary 2017-2023
Department of Chemistry
Temple University

Dr. Richard Broene – Secretary Elect 2023, Secretary 2024-2027
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Bowdoin College

Dr. Emily C. McLaughlin – Program Chair 2023-2024
Associate Dean of the College & Associate Professor
Bard College

Scott Bagley- Program Chair Elect 2023-2024
Sr. Principal Scientist
Pfizer Medicine Design

Dr. Steven Silverman – Past Program Chair 2023-2024
Principal Scientist, Process Research and Development
Merck Research Laboratories

National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) Officers

Michelle Tran-Dubé – NOS Co-Chair 2023
Senior Principal Scientist
Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry
Pfizer

Dr. Steven Silverman – NOS Co-Chair 2023
Principal Scientist
Process Research and Development
Merck Research Laboratories

Dr. Edward E. Fenlon – NOS Chair 2025
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Franklin & Marshall College

Councilors

Dr. Huw Davies – Term of Office 2021-2023
Chemistry Building
Department of Chemistry
Emory University

Dr. M. Kevin Brown – Term of Office 2023
Associate Professor
Indiana University
Department of Chemistry

Dr. Steven Silverman – Term of Office 2023-2025
Principal Scientist, Process Research and Development
Merck Research Laboratories

Dr. Lisa A. Marcaurelle – Term of office 2022-2024
Senior Director, Chemistry
GlaxoSmithKline

Alternate Councilors

Dr. Stefan G. Koenig – Term of Office 2022-2024
Small Molecule Process Chemistry
Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED)

Michelle Tran-Dubé – Term of Office 2021-2023
Senior Principal Scientist Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry
Pfizer

Dr. Scott Gilbertson – Term of Office 2022-2024
M.D. Anderson Professor
Department Associate Chair
Department of Chemistry
University of Houston

Dr. Monica Marie Arroyo – Term of Office 2023-2025
President, Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 336
Member, ACS Committee on Local Section Activities
Professor of Chemistry
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico

Members-at-Large

Dr. Katelyn Billings – Term of Office 2022-2024
Director, Discovery Chemistry
Relay Therapeutics

Dr. Diane Carrera – Term of Office 2021-2023
Associate Director, Process Chemistry
Bolt Biotherapeutics

Dr. Cathleen Crudden – Term of Office 2021-2023
Department of Chemistry
Queen’s University

Dr. Karen Draths – Term of Office 2022-2024
Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University

Dr. Jon T. Njardarson – Term of Office 2021-2023
Professor
University of Arizona
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Dr. Michael Pirrung – Term of Office 2022-2024
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of California, Riverside
Professor of Pharmaceutical Science
University of California, Irvine

Dr. Daisy Rosas Vargas – Term of Office 2022-2024
Assistant Professor
Ithaca College

Dr. Elizabeth Swift – Term of Office 2021-2023
Senior Scientist
Discovery Process Research
Janssen

Dr. Daniel J. Weix – Term of Office 2023-2025
Wayland E. Noland Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Jessica Hoover – Term of Office 2023-2025
Associate Professor of Chemistry
C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry
West Virginia University

Dr. Vanessa M. Marx – Term of Office 2023-2025
Principal Scientist II
Global Discovery Chemistry
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

Dr. Steven Wisniewski – Term of Office 2023-2025
Associate Director, Chemical Process Development
Bristol Myers Squibb

Dr. André K Isaacs – Term of Office 2023-2025
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of the Holy Cross

Ex-Officio Members

Virtual Program Officers

Dr. Steven Silverman
Principal Scientist
Process Research and Development
Merck Research Laboratories

Dr. Karl Hansen
Vice President, CMC
Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc.

Mr. Scott Bagley
Sr. Principal Scientist
Pfizer Medicine Design

Regional Meeting Liaison

Dr. Franklin A. Davis – Regional Meeting Liaison
Temple University
Department of Chemistry

Graduate Research Symposium Organizers

Dr. Angie R. Angeles – Graduate Research Symposium
Head of Process Chemistry
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego

Dr. P. Andrew Evans – Graduate Research Symposium
Alfred R. Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Queen’s University

Dr. Brett P. Fors – Graduate Research Symposium
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University

Undergraduate Award Program Director

Dr. Nancy Mills – Undergraduate Award Program Director
Emeritus Professor
Department of Chemistry
Trinity University

Web Masters

Dr. Joseph S. Ward III – Lead Web Master
Instructional Laboratory Services Manager
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan

Dr. Brian J. Myers – Web Master
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Ohio Northern University

Dr. Khoi Van – Assistant Web Master

Andrew Philip Freiburger – Assistant Web Master
Computational Scientist I
Argonne National Laboratory

Division Officers

A historical list of all the Division’s Officers since 1925 is available as a MS Excel File .