APA Takes its Message to the Hill
The 2001 Mental Illness Awareness Week Symposium held on Capitol Hill last month focused on the need for more psychiatric research and covered services in response to the recent terrorist attacks (see Original article: page 1). The symposium is cosponsored by APA and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Constituents of Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) were among the missing after the World Trade Center attacks. She said that employers called her office to request that counselors be sent to talk to family members and coworkers of the missing employees.
Jay Cutler, J.D., director of APA’s Division of Government Relations (right), talks with NIMH Director Steven Hyman, M.D. (center), and Herbert Pardes, M.D., president and CEO of the New York Presbyterian Hospital System.
APA Medical Director, Steven Mirin, M.D. (left), greets Rep. James Maloney (D-Conn.).
Ellen Stork, a member of the Virginia Board of Directors of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, describes her struggle with bipolar disorder and the importance of research and treatment in her recovery.
