Members Turn Ideas To Action
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APA President Marcia Goin, M.D., welcomes hundreds of members who volunteer their time and knowledge to serve on the Association's commitees and councils.
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APA Medical Director James H. Scully Jr., M.D., presents Psychiatric News Executive Editor Catherine Brown with this year’s Melvin Sabshin Award, which honors an APA employee for service above and beyond the call of duty.
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Tom Hamilton, Ph.D., past president for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, tells component members how he successfully lobbied the Texas legislature to enhance mental health services for nonviolent offenders with mental illness.
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Katharine Phillips, M.D., contributes to a conversation on new book ideas during the APPI Editorial Advisory Board meeting.
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John Talbott, M.D., editor of Psychiatric Services, joins a discussion at the meeting of the American Psychiatric Press Inc. Editorial Advisory Board.
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At the meeting of the Council on Healthcare Systems and Financing, Bruce Jan Schawrtz, M.D. (left); Becky Yowell, APA staff liason; and Paul Wick, M.D., grapples with reimbursement issues, which the committee considers to be one of the top items on its agenda.