Friday, October 31, 2014

Candidates for APA Board of Trustees Announced


Earlier today the APA Nominating Committee announced the following candidates chosen to run for positions on the Board of Trustees in the Association's 2015 election.


PRESIDENT-ELECT
Barton J. Blinder, MD, PhD
Maria A. Oquendo, MD
Charles F. Reynolds III, MD

SECRETARY
Rahn K. Bailey, MD
Altha J. Stewart, MD

EARLY CAREER PSYCHIATRIST (ECP) TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE
Lama Bazzi, MD
Paul O’Leary, MD

MINORITY/UNDERREPRESENTED REPRESENTATIVE (M/UR) TRUSTEE
Curley L. Bonds, MD
Gail E. Robinson, MD

AREA 1 TRUSTEE
Jeffrey L. Geller, MD, MPH
Anthony J. Rothschild, MD

AREA 4 TRUSTEE
Ronald M. Burd, MD
Shastri Swaminathan, MD

AREA 7 TRUSTEE
Jeffrey Akaka, MD
Stephen L. Brown, MD
Annette M. Matthews, MD

RESIDENT-FELLOW MEMBER TRUSTEE-ELECT (RFMTE)
Alicia Barnes, DO, MPH
Stella Cai, MD
Sarah Schmidhofer, MD

The deadline for petition candidates is November 15. All candidates and supporters are urged to review the updated Election Guidelines. For more election information, see the Election section under "Board of Trustees" on the APA website or email election@psych.org.

The slate of candidates who have been nominated is public but not official until approved by the Board at its December 2014 meeting.

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