Emergency Psychiatry Resources Online

Michael H. Allen, M.D., is past president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry and chair of APA's Task Force on Psychiatric Emergency Services, which issued an August 2002 report posted online at<www.psych.org/downloads/EmergencyServicesFinal.pdf>. Allen has also been a consultant to the Institute of Medicine's Future of Emergency Care Committee and presented an overview of mental health and substance abuse issues in emergency care at a February meeting of the group in Washington, D.C. Allen's presentation is posted at<www.iom.edu/project.asp?id=16107>.▪