Annual Meeting Helps Get Message Out

Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is an ardent supporter of the APA annual meeting—she has missed only one or two meetings since residency. Volkow sees the meeting as a prime opportunity for reaching a wide variety of clinicians through the special series of 40 sessions planned and organized by NIDA and APA.

“It is a unique meeting that brings psychiatrists together so that we can get these messages out to them,” she said.

Volkow is especially interested in reaching the large number of residents and fellows who attend the meeting. “Because these issues are not a part of training in any large way in most programs, it is a good opportunity for us to help educate them about how these issues will impact their treatment of patients.”