Candidates For APA’s 2003 Election Announced

The APA Nominating Committee announced last month that Los Angeles psychiatrist Fred Gottlieb, M.D., and Michelle Riba, M.D., of Ann Arbor, Mich., will compete in APA’s 2003 election for president-elect of APA.

Gottlieb is a child psychiatrist in private practice who treats both families and couples. He previously served APA as Assembly speaker, Area trustee, APA vice president, two-term treasurer, and chair of several councils. As a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of Southern California, he teaches and supervises child psychiatry fellows. Gottlieb is also a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA.

Riba, APA’s senior vice president, is the associate chair for education and academic affairs and a clinical associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and director of the psycho-oncology program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Riba is a former APA secretary and trustee-at-large and served as chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the Institute on Psychiatric Services.

The race to be Riba’s successor as one of APA’s two vice presidents, one of which is elected each year, will pit Norman Clemens, M.D., of Cleveland against Pedro Ruiz, M.D., of Houston. Clemens is currently the Area 4 trustee, and Ruiz is APA’s secretary.

The position of APA secretary is also up for election next year, and the candidates are Alfred Herzog, M.D., of Hartford, Conn., and Nada Stotland, M.D., of Chicago. Both are past speakers of the APA Assembly.

The ECP (early career psychiatrist) trustee-at-large, a three-year position, comes up for election as well in 2003. The candidates are Tanya Anderson, M.D., of Chicago and Charles Price, M.D., of Reno, Nev. Anderson is a member of the Committee on Bylaws and a consultant to the Scientific Program Committee. Price is a member of the Corresponding Committee on Private Practice and the newsletter co-editor of the Nevada Psychiatric Association.

The race for member-in-training trustee-elect has three candidates this year: Christopher A. Ramsey, M.D., of New York Presbyterian Hospital/New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City; Susan D. Rich, M.D., of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.; and William C. Wood, M.D., of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.

Three of APA’s seven Areas will elect a trustee this year. Facing off in the race for Area 1 trustee are Jack Brandes, M.D., of Toronto and Donna Norris, M.D., of Wellesley, Mass. Competing for Area 4 trustee are Michael Pearce, M.D., of Indianapolis and Sidney Weissman, M.D., of Chicago. The candidates for Area 7 trustee are Nady El-Guebaly, M.D., of Calgary, Alberta, and incumbent Albert Vogel, M.D., of Albuquerque, N.M.

Election ballots will be mailed to all voting members on January 6 and must be returned by February 6. Candidates’ biographies and statements will be published in the December 6 issue of Psychiatric News. ▪