The GOOD TIMES Rolled!
The cavernous size of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, however, easily accommodated the crowds and made it possible for a higher number than usual of scientific sessions to be centralized in one location.
The theme of this year’s meeting, selected by APA President Daniel Borenstein, M.D., was “Mind Meets Brain: Integrating Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience.” Many scientific sessions revolved around this theme. “Daily, new discoveries are helping us to understand how our personal interactions influence brain development and function,” Borenstein said at the Opening Session on Sunday evening, May 6. “Psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience have overlapping areas of interest, such as perception, affect, dreaming, and memory, that will help elucidate relationships between mind and brain.”
One of the high points of the meeting was the lecture presented by Eric R. Kandel, M.D. (see Original article: page 1). Kandel, who was one of the winners of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, drew a standing-room-only crowd that spilled into the corridor.
When APA members and other meeting goers weren’t in scientific sessions, they could be found strolling through the French Quarter, which was only a short walk from the convention center. The pleasures of New Orleans—particularly jazz music and tantalizing Cajun and Creole cuisine, not to mention that enduring duo of beignets and coffee—were in abundance.
APA will hold next year’s annual meeting from May 18 to 23 in the place of not only the nation’s birth but its own, Philadelphia. The forerunner of APA was established there in 1844.
Photos: Ellen Dallager
“Dr. Ruth” Westheimer signs copies of her books, Sex for Dummies and Rekindling Romance for Dummies, in the Author’s Corner in the Exhibits Hall.
Outgoing APA President Daniel Borenstein, M.D. (right), presents a ceremonial gavel to incoming APA President Richard Harding, M.D., at the Board of Trustees meeting held in conjunction with APA’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Harding became APA’s president at the conclusion of the annual meeting on Thursday, May 10.
Nada Stotland, M.D., became speaker of the Assembly at the close of the Assembly’s May meeting in New Orleans. Succeeding her as speaker-elect is Albert Gaw, M.D.
Leslie Gise, M.D. (left), a community psychiatrist from Hawaii and a member of APA’s Committee on Women, chats with Michelle Riba, M.D., APA vice president, at the Aventis Fellows Luncheon for women psychiatry residents.
More than 100 APA fellows are inducted at the Convocation ceremony on Monday evening, May 7.
American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., APA’s publishing division, did record business this year: it sold more than $415,000 worth of books, electronic products, and journal subscriptions in only five days.
Psychiatrists complete the evaluation survey of the 2001 annual meeting on computers in the APA Resource Center and obtain a personalized certificate of attendance in return.
Children in the child care program at APA’s annual meeting do what many people in New Orleans do—make good music!
Perhaps they were few in number, but these musicians made a merry sound as they marched into the hall where the Opening Session was held.
Darrel Regier, M.D. (far left), director of APA’s research activities, and renowned researcher Charles Nemeroff, M.D. (far right), pose with the winners of the APA/Lilly Psychiatric Research Award: Angela Arnold, M.D., and Tarique Ferera, M.D.
