Psychiatr News October 6, 2006
Volume 41, Number 19, page 13
© 2006 American Psychiatric Association
Building Psychiatry's Future...
Last month about 400 APA
members gathered in the nation's capital to participate in APA's fall
component meetings. It is at these meetings that much of the foundation is
laid for addressing issues and planning initiatives that are important to
psychiatrists and their patients. While this work is ongoing throughout the
year, the fall meetings give APA members the opportunity to meet other
psychiatrists who are volunteering their time and service to their profession
and to engage in cross-pollination of
ideas.
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APA President Pedro Ruiz, M.D., welcomes APA members to the plenary session
of the fall component meetings.
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Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, M.D., president of the National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI), tells APA members last month in Washington, D.C., that APA and
NAMI should collaborate more closely on such efforts as seeking funding to
implement recommendations of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. At
right is APA President Pedro Ruiz, M.D. (see pages
2 and 13).
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Marshall Forstein, M.D., talks about "AIDS at 25" at the
plenary session. He chaired APA's Commission on AIDS from 1992 to 2004.
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Meeting participants attended a plenary session led by APA President Pedro
Ruiz, M.D. (see page 2).
The overarching theme of the presentations was the importance of
psychiatrists' becoming involved in the political process—that is,
meeting with legislators and candidates for office at both the state and
national levels to educate them about mental health issues, as well as joining
and contributing to APA's political action committee, APAPAC (see
page
3).
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Sandra Walker, M.D., makes a point at the meeting of the Committee of Black
Psychiatrists as Rahn Bailey, M.D., looks on.
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Hunter McQuistion, M.D. (center), discusses strategies for reducing the use
of seclusion and restraint at the meeting of the Council on Social Issues and
Public Psychiatry. He is flanked by Rogelio Samorano, M.D., an APA/AstraZeneca
fellow, and Gloria Pitts, D.O.
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From left: Anna Gross, M.D., Molly McVoy, M.D., and Paul O'leary, M.D.,
confer at the Committee of Residents and Fellows meeting.
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Francine Cournos, M.D., listens to Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, M.D., president
of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, at the plenary session.
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John McIntrye, M.D., addresses the Council on Quality Care. From left are
Eliot Sorel, M.D., Al Herzog, M.D., Daniel Mamah, M.D., and Itai Danovitch,
M.D.
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Related Articles:
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Psychiatrists Hold Key To Open Doors on Hill
- Rich Daly
Psychiatr News 2006 41: 2-37.
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PAC Contributions Help APA Ensure Congress Hears Us
- Pedro Ruiz
Psychiatr News 2006 41: 3-6.
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