HAPA to Meet

The Hellenic American Psychiatric Association (HAPA) will hold its 11th annual meeting in conjunction with APA's 2010 annual meeting in New Orleans. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 25, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside.

There will be two featured speakers: Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., and Ioannis Zervas, M.D. Levounis is director of the Addiction Institute of New York, chief of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospital, and an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University; he will speak on “Leadership, Motivation, and Change: Lessons From Addiction Medicine.” Zervas is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Athens University School of Medicine in Greece; he will speak on “Women's Mental Health at the Athens University: A Person-Centered Approach.” There will also be a brief business meeting.

Starting this year, the meeting will be followed by a prearranged Dutch-treat dinner to be held at a local restaurant beginning at 8:30 p.m.

Those interested in attending the meeting and/or dinner must preregister by sending an e-mail to maria@lymberis.com and submit their HAPA dues of $50. (This fee has not increased since HAPA's founding in 1999.)

Dues may be mailed to Arthur Papas, M.D., 5 Byron Road, Weston, Mass. 02493-2228. More information is available by contacting him at www.hellenic-psych.org>.