Nominations Announced

The APA Assembly Nominating Committee announced candidates for speaker-elect and recorder at last month's Assembly meeting in Washington, D.C. (see Original article: Assembly Looks to Health Reform, Honors Psychiatrist's Courage).

Running unopposed for speaker-elect is the current recorder, Bruce Hershfield, M.D., of Maryland. The Nominating Committee announced that it could find no Assembly member to run against him despite overtures made to“ dozens” of members.

Competing to replace Hershfield as Assembly recorder are Priscilla Ray, M.D., and Ann Marie Sullivan, M.D. Ray is a representative of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, and Sullivan is a representative of the New York County District Branch.

The election will be held at the Assembly's next meeting in May 2009.▪