APA Fellows to Present Workshop
The APA/CMHS and APA/AstraZeneca Fellows will present the workshop “Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Minorities in the 21st Century” at APA’s 2002 annual meeting in Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 22. It will be held at the Marriott at 11 a.m. in Salon K, Grand Ballroom, on level 5.
The workshop, chaired by Michael Pratts, M.D., will discuss the effects of culture on psychiatric presentations. Participants include Cherry Chevy, M.D., Denise de Guzman, M.D., Nancy Wu, M.D., and Bethany Tucker, M.D., along with guest Alvaro Camacho, M.D.
Also, a former APA/NIMH fellow has been named the winner of the 2002 Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., Minority Fellowship Achievement Award. He is William B. Lawson, M.D., professor and chair of the department of psychiatry at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. ▪