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title: "Psych News Alert: APA Announces Winners of 2017 Election"
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 2/14/17 12:00 AM

# APA Announces Winners of 2017 Election

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APA’s Committee of Tellers has approved the following results of APA’s 2017 national election. Please note that these results are considered public but not official until approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting March 4-5.

**President-Elect**   
Altha J. Stewart, M.D.

**Secretary**   
Philip R. Muskin, M.D., M.A.

**Minority/Underrepresented Representative (M/UR) Trustee**   
Ramaswamy Viswanathan, M.D., D.M.Sc.

**Area 2 Trustee**   
Vivian B. Pender, M.D.

**Area 5 Trustee**   
Jenny Boyer, M.D., Ph.D., J.D.

**Resident-Fellow Member Trustee-Elect**   
Tanuja Gandhi, M.D.

Complete results of the election will be reported in the March 3 issue of  *Psychiatric News.*

[Altha Stewart](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/altha-stewart), [American Psychiatric Association](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/american-psychiatric-association), [Philip Muskin](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/philip-muskin), [APA 2017 election](https://alert.psychnews.org/tag/apa-2017-election)

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