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View WPS Election Results (click here to download pdf)

2010 APA Election: Call for Nominations
Individual members play a key role in the nomination process for national office. The Nominating Committee, chaired by Nada L. Stotland, MD, is requesting nominations for candidates in the 2010 APA Election. Please submit your nomination for President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, Area 3 Trustee, Area 6 Trustee, and Member-in-Training Trustee-Elect (MITTE). Nominations should be submitted via email to rjuarez@psych.org by Friday, July 24, 2009. Each nomination should include the full name of the nominated member and the office(s) for which you would like him or her to be considered. All nominations will be considered by the Nominating Committee and a final list of candidates will be announced and posted on the APA website in mid-September. Please visit the APA website, www.psych.org, for more information.

Annual Meeting Update
Eliot Sorel's contributions to the APA Annual meeting in California, May 2009, are:

• Psychiatry & Primary Care Integration, highlights of the APA BOT Work Group findings & recommendations
• The Guantanamo Interrogations, the Hippocratic Oath & the War on Terror, workshop discussant

Dr. Hind Benjelloun testifies before the Washington DC Council on Therapeutic Substitutions

Dr. Eliot Sorel and a WPS Board of Directors member chaired 2 symposia at the World Psychaitric Association's International Congress in Florence, Italy on April 4, 2009

Dr. Roger Peele to Receive Award

Enhancing Primary Care Psychiatric Medicine Collaboration

'Vast Treatment Gap' Plagues Mental Illness Around Globe

APA Hails Passage of Mental Health Parity Legislation

APA Restates Position Barring Psychiatric Participation in Interrogation of Detainees

Dr. Sorel attends the World Congress of Psychiatry

AMA Statement - Mental health parity bill enacted 10-3-08

Interim Report of the APA BOT Ad Hoc Work Group on the Integration of Psychiatry and Primary Care
This started as a WPS and Area III initiated Action Paper in the spring of 2008. Click to download. Original Action Paper below.

Enhancing Primary Care, Psychiatric Medicine Collaboration Action Paper
Original AP- unanimously approved by our APA Assembly in Washington in May 2008 that was a precursor of our Work Group and its Interim Report. Click to download

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MedChi Events Calendar
Visit the MedChi web site to see their events calendar

Women's Mental Health
In honor of March, Women's History Month, the APA has compiled resources and information on women's mental health. To access this information, please visit the APA's Healthy Minds website.

New DC Regs Clarify Patient Confidentiality Protections
A new regulation from the District of Columbia Insurance Commission clarifies the patient confidentiality protection that exists in the District of Columbia. Read more.

Parents' and Physicians' Guides to Medications for Children's Depression
www.parentsmedguide.org/parentsmedguide.htm
www.parentsmedguide.org/physiciansmedguide.htm

Psychiatry Cares about America’s Children
Learn more about children’s mental health from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Students and War
Teachers, how should you address the subject of war in the classroom? Click here for information.