Candidates Announced

The Assembly Nominating Committee announced the candidates who will compete for the speaker-elect and recorder posts in next year’s election. The candidates for speaker-elect will be the Assembly’s current recorder, James Nininger, M.D., of New York and Jo-Ellyn Ryall, M.D., of St. Louis, who is the Area 4 deputy representative.

The race to succeed Nininger as Assembly recorder pits Louis Moench, M.D., of Salt Lake City, against Joseph Rubin, M.D., of Portland, Maine. Moench is the Assembly’s Area 7 representative, and Rubin represents Area 1.

The election will be held at the Assembly’s next meeting, which will be in San Francisco in May, just prior to the opening of APA’s 2003 annual meeting.

At that time, the current speaker-elect, Prakash Desai, M.D., will step up to the speaker’s post, replacing Albert Gaw, M.D.