Assembly Announces Candidates

At their November 2010 meeting in Washington, D.C., representatives to the APA Assembly approved nominations for candidates who will vie to become the Assembly's next speaker-elect and recorder.

For speaker-elect, the current recorder, R. Scott Benson, M.D., of Pensacola, Fla., will face off against John Gaston, M.D., of Atlanta, who is the Assembly's Area 5 representative.

Competing for the recorder post are Stephen McLeod-Bryant, M.D., of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., and Melinda Young, M.D., of Lafayette, Calif. McLeod-Bryant is the representative of the black psychiatrists to the Assembly Committee of Representatives of Minority/Underrepresented Groups. Young is an Assembly representative from the California Psychiatric Association.

Elections for the two leadership posts will take place during the next Assembly meeting, which will be in Honolulu May 13 to 15 in conjunction with the APA annual meeting. At the end of the annual meeting, the current speaker-elect, Ann Sullivan, M.D., will begin a one-year term as speaker.