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.