Psychiatr News October 6, 2006
Volume 41, Number 19, page 1
© 2006 American Psychiatric Association
Candidates Announced for 2007 Election
Ken Hausman
In APA's 2007 election, Spencer Eth, M.D., and Nada Stotland, M.D., are
vying to be APA's next presidentelect. Ballots will be mailed out on December
22, and instructions for online voting will be e-mailed on that date as
well.
Two names well known to APA members—Spencer Eth, M.D., of New York,
and Nada Stotland, M.D., M.P.H., of Chicago—have been chosen to compete
to be the Association's next president-elect. The APA Nominating Committee
announced its choices last month.
Eth is a professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, based at St.
Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He is past chair of the APA Ethics Committee
and current chair of the Committee on Commercial Support. He has received the
APA Guttmacher Award, the Bruno Lima Award, and a Special Presidential
Commendation for national leadership in child trauma following 9/11/01.
Stotland has been director of psychiatric residency training and
consultation/liaison at the University of Chicago and medical coordinator for
the Illinois Department of Mental Health. She continues in clinical practice.
She has chaired the APA Joint Commission on Public Affairs, served as speaker
of the Assembly, and is currently treasurer of American Psychiatric Publishing
Inc. And APA vice president.
In the race to succeed Stotland as vice president, former APA treasurer
Carol Bernstein, M.D., of New York and current APA Trustee-at-Large
Renée Binder, M.D., of San Francisco will face off.
Three candidates will vie for the trustee-at-large position. They are Roger
Peele, M.D., of Rockville, MD., who is now the Area 3 trustee and an Assembly
representative of the Washington (D.C.) Psychiatric Society; Joseph Rubin,
M.D., of Portland, Maine, chair of the APA Membership Committee and immediate
past speaker of the Assembly; and Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan, M.D., of
Anna, Ill., chair of the Council on Social Issues and Public Psychiatry and
the representative for Asian-American psychiatrists on the Assembly Committee
of Representatives of Minority/Underrepresented Groups.
The contest for member-in-training trustee-elect will also be a
three-person race. The three residents running for this post are Chris
Esguerra, M.D., of San Francisco; Samantha Shlakman, M.D., of Washington,
D.C.; and Lauren Sitzer, M.D., of Boston.
In addition, two of APA's seven Areas will decide who they want to
represent them on the Board of Trustees.
In Area 3, Houshang Hamadani, M.D., of Allentown, Pa., will vie with John
Urbaitis, M.D., of Baltimore. Hamadani represents Area 3 on the Committee on
Public Affairs, and Urbaitis is an Assembly representative for the Maryland
Psychiatric Society. Area 3 includes New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
In Area 6, which encompasses all of the California district branches,
current Area 6 Trustee Thomas Ciesla, M.D., of Santa Monica will be running
against Ravi Goklaney, M.D., of Bakersfield.
Paper ballots will be mailed out on December 22, the same day on which
members for whom APA has an e-mail address will receive via e-mail
instructions for voting online. Members who would like to receive an online
ballot only, an option that can be selected in the Members' Corner of the APA
Web site, will receive an e-mail with a ballot-control number and online
voting intructions. The address for indicating this choice is
<http://onlineapa.psych.org/OnlineBallot.aspx>.
The deadline for receipt of both paper and online ballots is 5 p.m. Eastern
time on February 5, 2007.
Candidates' biographies and election statements will appear in the December
1 issue of Psychiatric News. 
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