Several Institute Sessions Designed for Residents

Residents are important to the success of APA meetings, especially the Institute on Psychiatric Services (IPS). To meet their needs, APA has scheduled several activities for residents at the IPS meeting. There will be a reception open to all residents and early career psychiatrists to network with colleagues and APA leaders. The reception is scheduled for Thursday, October 11, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Also on the agenda is the annual Meet the Experts Luncheon, which is funded by Janssen Pharmaceutica. This luncheon, which continues to be an important part of resident activities both at the APA annual meeting and the IPS, features topics of interest to residents and ECPs.

Topics and experts for this year’s Meet the Experts Luncheon include Ana E. Campo, M.D., who will address academic careers; Kenneth Minkoff, M.D., and Wesley E. Sowers, M.D., for addiction and substance abuse; David Fassler, M.D., on child and adolescent psychiatry; Wade C. Myers, M.D., on forensic aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry; Albert C. Gaw, M.D., for cross-cultural training and cultural competency; Judith Lifton, M.D., on disaster psychiatry; Gail Barton, M.D., for emergency psychiatry; Stephen Goldfinger, M.D., Alan D. Felix, M.D., and Hunter McQuistion, M.D., for homelessness and poverty; James W. Thompson, M.D., and Richard K. Harding, M.D., on leadership development; Joel S. Feiner, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Feldman, M.D., on public and community psychiatry; Marcia Kraft Goin, M.D., for psychotherapy; Phillip Wayne Cushman, M.D., for technology and psychiatry; Carl Bell, M.D., and Edward Hanin, M.D., on violence and psychiatry; and Nada L. Stotland, M.D., and Ann Ruth Turkel, M.D., for women’s mental health.

The Meet the Experts Luncheon is scheduled for Friday, October 12, from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.

APA’s Member-in-Training Trustee, Avram H. Mack, M.D., will lead the residents in a discussion on “Whither Residency Training Amidst Corporations, Unions, Mergers, and Closures?” This workshop is scheduled for Saturday, October 13, from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

For this meeting as well, APA has announced the creation of a new APA/Janssen Resident IPS Travel Scholarship Program. This travel program was created to generate interest in community and public psychiatry, since APA believes it is imperative to expose residents to the most exciting new clinical research and the most successful public programs for the treatment of the seriously mentally ill. The APA/Janssen Resident Travel Scholarships Program will provide residents with these opportunities through attendance and mentoring activities at the IPS meeting.

For more information about residents’ activities including the APA/Janssen Resident IPS Travel Scholarship Program, contact Nancy Delanoche at (202) 682-6126 or by e-mail at [email protected]. ▪