History
The Society was established in 1955 by W. Horsley Gantt at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Early meetings were held in the Baltimore-New York area, but as the membership started to assume an international character, annual meetings were held abroad as well as through the United States. Membership includes physicians, PhDs, clinicians and scientists. Past presidents are listed below.
A particularly forthright examination of the Society’s history is presented by J. J. Furedy and is available by clicking the picture above.
Pavlovian Society Presidents
W. Horsley Gantt1955-1964
Howard Liddell 1964
Harold Wolff 1964-1965
B. F. Skinner 1965-1966
Stewart Wolf 1966-1967
John E. Peters 1967-1968
Wagner Bridger 1968-1969
E. Cowles Andrus 1969-1970
William N. Schoenfeld 1970-1971
Carmine D. Clemente 1971-1972
George E. Burch 1972-1973
William G. Reese 1973-1974
F. J. McGuigan 1974-1975
Francis M. Forster 1975-1976
Orville A. Smith, Jr. 1976-1978
David H. Cohen 1978-1979
Gyorgy Adam 1979-1980
Charles D. Flagle 1980-1981
H. D. Kimmel 1981-1982
David C. Randall 1982-1983
Konstantin V. Sudakov 1983-1984
Joseph Brady 1984-1985
John Stern 1985-1986
Shoji Kakigi 1986-1987
Roscoe A. Dykman 1987-1988
John Furedy 1988-1989
James J. Lynch 1989-1990
Jaylan S. Turkkan 1990-1991
Yo Miyata 1991-1992
Benjamin Natelson 1992-1993
James E. Skinner 1993-1994
Paul McHugh 1994-1995
J. Bruce Overmier 1995-1996
Walter Freeman 1996-1997
Byron Campbell 1997-1998
Paul Rosch 1998-1999
Wolfram Boucsein 1999-2000
Tracey Shors 2000-2001
Michael Fanselow 2001-2002
Joe Steinmetz 2002-2003
Lou Matzel 2003-2004
Richard Thompson 2004-2005
Ralph Miller 2005-2006
Michael Domjan 2006-2007
Rick Servatius 2007-2008
Mark Bouton 2008-2009
Peter Holland 2009-2010
Fred Helmstetter 2010-2011
Peter Balsam 2011-2012
Steve Maren 2012-2013
Jeansok Kim 2013-2014
Matt Lattal 2014-2015
Andrew Delamater 2015-2016
Mark Stanton 2016-2017
John Freeman 2017-2018
Catharine Rankin 2018-2019
David Bucci 2019-2020
Natalie Tronson 2020-2021
Karyn Frick 2021-2022
Michael Drew 2022-2023
Susan Sangha 2023-2024
Melissa Sharpe 2024-2025