FIG1 Last month about 400 APA
members gathered in the nation's capital to participate in APA's fall
component meetings. It is at these meetings that much of the foundation is
laid for addressing issues and planning initiatives that are important to
psychiatrists and their patients. While this work is ongoing throughout the
year, the fall meetings give APA members the opportunity to meet other
psychiatrists who are volunteering their time and service to their profession
and to engage in cross-pollination of
ideas.FIG2FIG3FIG4
APA President Pedro Ruiz, M.D., welcomes APA members to the plenary session
of the fall component meetings.
Photo: David Hathcox
Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, M.D., president of the National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI), tells APA members last month in Washington, D.C., that APA and
NAMI should collaborate more closely on such efforts as seeking funding to
implement recommendations of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. At
right is APA President Pedro Ruiz, M.D. (see pages
2 and 13).
David Hathcox
Marshall Forstein, M.D., talks about “AIDS at 25” at the
plenary session. He chaired APA's Commission on AIDS from 1992 to 2004.
Photo: David Hathcox
Meeting participants attended a plenary session led by APA President Pedro
Ruiz, M.D. (see page 2).
The overarching theme of the presentations was the importance of
psychiatrists' becoming involved in the political process—that is,
meeting with legislators and candidates for office at both the state and
national levels to educate them about mental health issues, as well as joining
and contributing to APA's political action committee, APAPAC (see
page
3).FIG5FIG6FIG7FIG8FIG9
Sandra Walker, M.D., makes a point at the meeting of the Committee of Black
Psychiatrists as Rahn Bailey, M.D., looks on.
Photo: David Hathcox
Hunter McQuistion, M.D. (center), discusses strategies for reducing the use
of seclusion and restraint at the meeting of the Council on Social Issues and
Public Psychiatry. He is flanked by Rogelio Samorano, M.D., an APA/AstraZeneca
fellow, and Gloria Pitts, D.O.
Photo: David Hathcox
From left: Anna Gross, M.D., Molly McVoy, M.D., and Paul O'leary, M.D.,
confer at the Committee of Residents and Fellows meeting.
Photo: David Hathcox
Francine Cournos, M.D., listens to Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, M.D., president
of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, at the plenary session.
Photo: David Hathcox
John McIntrye, M.D., addresses the Council on Quality Care. From left are
Eliot Sorel, M.D., Al Herzog, M.D., Daniel Mamah, M.D., and Itai Danovitch,
M.D.
Photo: David Hathcox