A. Evan Eyler, M.D., M.P.H. is the Speaker of the Assembly and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont.

Dr. Eyler has dedicated his career to the health of underserved populations, including in under-resourced rural settings, among high-risk adolescents, resettled refugee families, and in the LGBTQ communities. As a boarded psychiatrist-family physician he practices at the intersection of psychiatry and generally medicine, including hospital consultation, primary care integrated care, and neurostimulation/neuromodulation.

Dr. Eyler has extensive experience in governance of professional and academic organizations. He has been a member of the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association - the voice of the members of the APA - intermittently throughout his psychiatric career, including as a resident and early career representative, District Branch representative, and as Area I Council Representative to the Assembly Executive Committee. He served as Vice-Chair of the APA Joint Reference Committee in 2024-2025 and has worked on a variety of Assembly and APA committees and work groups. He was a member of the APA Committee on Women’s Mental Health and assisted in its evolution to becoming a full APA Council. He has been an alternate delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates. He served two terms as Vice President of the University of Vermont Faculty Senate and two terms on the university-wide Professional Standards Committee. He has been appointed by the Governor to the Board of Medical Practice of the State of Vermont.

Education to enhance clinical expertise is a critical aspect of improving access to care. In order to promote quality care in general psychiatry and primary care settings, Dr. Eyler serves a member of the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines Writing Group and has been a contributor to the Practice Guidelines on the use of antipsychotic medications to treat agitation or psychosis in patients with dementia, the pharmacologic treatment of alcohol use disorder, and the treatment of bipolar disorder. He has been the primary author of several APA Position Statements and was a member of the first APA work group on gender identity. He has served as an Associate Editor of LGBT Health and co-edited the books, Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery (1^st ed., The Haworth Press, Inc.) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Aging: Challenges in Research, Practice and Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press).

For over 30 years, Dr. Eyler has worked on behalf of persons marginalized by mental illness or structural factors, in clinical care, advocacy, education, and leadership. He considers it an honor to represent the interests of practicing psychiatrists and the patients we serve, looking forward to a future of equitable, accessible high quality psychiatric care and broader commitment to our common humanity and shared planetary home.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, Biomedical Sciences, University of Michigan Integrated Premedical-Medical Program
• Doctor of Medicine, University of Michigan Integrated Premedical-Medical Program
• Family Medicine Residency Program, University of Michigan Hospitals
• Diplomate, American Board of Family Medicine
• Master of Public Health (M.P.H, Public Health Policy and Administration) University of Michigan School of Public Health
• Residency Program in Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• Certificate of Added Qualifications in Adolescent Medicine, American Board of Family Medicine
• Certificate of Added Qualifications in Psychosomatic Medicine (now Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry), American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• American Psychiatric Association Transformational Leadership Academy Fellowship in conjunction with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Awards and Honors

• Vermont Psychiatric Association Bruce A Gibbard Award for Clinical Excellence (2024)
• Gender Equity Award, American Medical Women’s Association at the University of Vermont (Robert Larner, MD, College of Medicine, Class of 2023)
• American Psychiatric Association Assembly Resident-Fellow Member (RFM) Mentor Award (2016)
• Psychiatry Residents Award of Excellence, for Excellence in Academic Teaching; Residency Program in Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine (2016)
• Student Clinician Ceremony, invited speaker, University of Vermont College of Medicine (March 19, 2015)
• University of Vermont College of Medicine 2014 Faculty Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, Arnold P. Gold Foundation (2014)
• White Coat Ceremony invited speaker, University of Vermont College of Medicine (November 14, 2014)
• Psychiatry Residents Award of Excellence, for Excellence in Clinical Teaching; Residency Program in Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine (2014)
• Psychiatry Residents Award of Excellence, for Excellence in Clinical Teaching; Residency Program in Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine (2008)
• Teacher of the Year, Family Medicine Residency Program, University of Vermont College of Medicine (2006)
• Award for Excellence, in Teaching, presented to a faculty member who is recognized for outstanding contributions to resident education, Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center (Inaugural Recipient; 1998)
• American Medical Women's Association Gender Equity Award, University of Michigan Student Chapter (1995, 1996)
• Walter H. Kemp Award: Publications Committee, American Academy of Family Physicians (1994)