APS 2022–2023 Election Results

February 14, 2022 (Rockville, Md.)—The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce the results of the 2022–2023 leadership elections. Our new president-elect and three councilors will begin their terms in April at the conclusion of the APS annual meeting at Experimental Biology (EB) 2022.

President-elect

Willis K. “Rick” Samson, PhD, DSc, FAPS
Samson is a professor of pharmacology and physiology and director of biomedical science graduate programs at the School of Medicine, Saint Louis University.

Councilors

Heddwen Brooks, PhD
Brooks is a professor of physiology at the University of Arizona.

Nisha Charkoudian, PhD
Charkoudian is a research physiologist at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts.

Evangeline Motley-Johnson, PhD
Motley-Johnson is the interim dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research; professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology, at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.

Congratulations to the newly elected leaders. Thanks to the entire slate of candidates and to all members who voted.

Physiology is a broad area of scientific inquiry that focuses on how molecules, cells, tissues and organs function in health and disease. The American Physiological Society connects a global, multidisciplinary community of more than 10,000 biomedical scientists and educators as part of its mission to advance scientific discovery, understand life and improve health. The Society drives collaboration and spotlights scientific discoveries through its 16 scholarly journals and programming that support researchers and educators in their work.