Executive Committee

Officers

Members can see the contact info of the officers below by logging into the website

Dr. Amy Howell — Chair 2025
Professor
University of Connecticut
Department of Chemistry

Dr. Steven Silverman — Chair-Elect 2026
Principal Scientist, Process Research and Development
Merck Research Laboratories

Dr. Angie R. Angeles — Past Chair 2024
Head of Process Chemistry
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego

Dr. Joseph S. Ward III — Treasurer 2024-2027
Instructional Laboratory Services Manager
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan

Dr. Richard Broene — Secretary 2024-2027
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Bowdoin College

Scott Bagley — Program Chair 2025-2026
Sr. Principal Scientist
Pfizer Medicine Design

Dr. M. Kevin Brown — Program Chair-elect 2025-2026
Professor
Indiana University
Department of Chemistry

Dr. Emily C. McLaughlin — Past Program Chair 2025-2026
Associate Dean of the College & Associate Professor
Bard College

National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) Officer

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

Mingji Dai — 2027 NOS Chair
Professor
Department of Chemistry Emory University

Alex Grenning — 2029 NOS Chair
Professor Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota

Councilors

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

Dr. Huw Davies — Term of Office 2024-2026
Chemistry Building
Department of Chemistry
Emory University

Dr. Lisa McElwee-White — Term of office 2025-2027
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida

Dr. Elizabeth Swift — Term of Office 2024-2026
Senior Scientist
Discovery Process Research
Janssen

Alternate Councilors

Alex Grenning — Term of Office 2024-2026
Professor Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota

Jon Rainier — Term of Office 2025-2027
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Utah

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

Yang Yang — Term of Office 2025-2027
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara

Members-at-Large

Leila Abrous — Term of Office 2024-2026
Lecturer
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
California State University San Marcos

Annabel Ansel — Term of Office 2025-2027
Scientist I
Vividion Therapeutics

Eric Anslyn — Term of Office 2025-2027
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas, Austin

Paul Blakemore — Term of Office 2025-2027
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Oregon State University

Mingji Dai — Term of Office 2024-2026
Professor
Department of Chemistry Emory University

Alison Frontier — Term of Office 2025-2027
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Rochester

Aleksandra Holownia — Term of Office 2024-2026
Senior Scientist
AbbVie

Dr. Jessica Hoover — Term of Office 2023-2025
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota
https://www.hooverlab.org

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

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

Andy McNally — Term of Office 2024-2026
Professor Department of Chemistry
Colorado State University

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

Ex-Officio Members^*

Graduate Research Symposium (GRS) Organizers

Dr. Angie R. Angeles
Head of Process Chemistry Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego

Dr. P. Andrew Evans
Alfred R. Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Queen’s University
http://faculty.chem.queensu.ca/people/faculty/evans/

Regional Meeting Liaison

Dr. Franklin A. Davis
Temple University
Department of Chemistry

Undergraduate Award Program Director

Dr. Nancy Mills
Emeritus Professor
Department of Chemistry Trinity University

SURF Committee, Co-Chair

Dr. Katelyn Billings
Discovery Chemist

SURF Committee, Co-Chair

Dr. Karen Draths
Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University

ACS Fellows and Awards Committee Chair

Dr. Michael Pirrung
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Professor of Pharmaceutical Science
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697

Web / Technology Team

Dr. Joseph S. Ward III
Instructional Laboratory Services Manager
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan

Dr. Brian J. Myers
Professor Department of Chemistry
Ohio Northern University
https://myersorganic.netlify.app

Andrew Philip Freiburger
Computational Scientist I Argonne National Laboratory

Jennifer Muzyka
Ewing T. Boles Professor of Chemistry
Centre College
https://organicers.org

Jessica Sampson, Ph.D.
High-Throughput Experimentation Lab
University of Delaware

Dr. Khoi Van

^*Ex-officio members may also hold elected positions

Division Officers

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