Assembly Candidates Announced

APA Assembly Recorder Prakash Desai, M.D., of River Forest, Ill., will face off against Area 7 representative Louis Moench Jr., M.D., in the contest to become the next speaker-elect of the Assembly.

James Nininger, M.D., Area 2 representative, and Lawrence Kline, M.D., representative of the Washington Psychiatric Society, will compete in the race to succeed Desai as Assembly recorder.

The nominations for the Assembly’s top two posts were announced at the group’s meeting in Washington, D.C., last month. The election will be held in May at the Assembly’s next meeting, which will occur just prior to the opening of APA’s 2002 annual meeting in Philadelphia. Both positions are one-year terms. At the end of that period, the speaker-elect steps up to become speaker.

The Assembly’s current speaker, Nada Stotland, M.D., of Chicago will serve in that post until the end of the Assembly’s next meeting, at which time APA Speaker-elect Albert Gaw, M.D., of San Francisco will take over the speaker’s duties.