APA Announces Candidates Vying for Board of Trustees Positions
Election season is under way at APA as the names of candidates who will be running for Board of Trustees positions are announced. Three Areas will be choosing their Board representatives as well.
APA members will be able to choose among three president-elect candidates in APA’s 2015 election who specialize in different areas of psychiatry but who all have had extensive involvement in APA—Barton Blinder, M.D., Ph.D., Maria Oquendo, M.D., and Charles Reynolds III, M.D. They provided Psychiatric News with the following biographical information.
Pictured (L-R): Barton Blinder, M.D., Maria Oquendo, M.D., and Charles Reynolds, M.D.
Blinder is a clinical professor and past director of Eating Disorder Research in the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine, and past president of clinical faculty, School of Medicine. He has served as Assembly Area 6 representative and on the Practice Guidelines and Scientific Program committees and Commission on Psychotherapy. He is in private practice of adult and child psychiatry.
Oquendo is residency training director at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, where she started as a community psychiatrist. She is professor and vice chair for education at Columbia University, conducting research on mood disorders and suicide. As APA secretary, she chairs APA’s Conflict of Interest Committee. She formerly chaired APA’s SAMHSA Fellowship Selection Committee and has a small private practice.
An Endowed Professor at Pittsburgh, Reynolds directs an NIMH Intervention Research/Mentoring Center and Pitt’s Aging Institute, with PCORI, CMS, Sangath/Goa, and NIH support. A member of the DSM-5 Task Force, he has also served on IOM panels (suicide, sleep, eldercare), NIMH Council, President/American College of Psychiatrists, and Pennsylvania gubernatorial commissions (primary care, dementia), and advocated on Capitol Hill for NIMH/NIDA funding.
Also up for election is the secretary post, which is for a two-year term. In this race, two Tennessee psychiatrists will be facing off— Rahn Bailey, M.D., of Nashville and Altha Stewart, M.D., of Memphis.
In addition, the early career psychiatrist (ECP) trustee is up for election in this cycle. Vying for that post are Lama Bazzi, M.D., of Stony Brook, N.Y., and Paul O’Leary, M.D., of Birmingham, Ala.
For the Board’s minority/underrepresented group (MUR) representative, the candidates are Curley Bonds, M.D., of Los Angeles, and Gail Robinson, M.D., of Toronto. (Only members of APA’s minority caucuses can vote for the MUR trustee. Information about joining a caucus can be accessed here.)
Three of APA’s seven Area trustees will be elected in 2015. In elections for Area trustees, the Area Council rather than the APA Nominating Committee chooses the candidates.
In Area 1—which includes the New England district branches as well as the Ontario District Branch and Quebec and Eastern Canada District Branch—Jeffrey Geller, M.D., M.P.H., of Worcester, Mass., is running against Anthony Rothschild, M.D., also of Worcester, Mass.
In Area 4, which encompasses the Midwestern states, Ronald Burd, M.D., of Fargo, N.D., is competing against Shastri Swaminathan, M.D., of Chicago.
In the race for Area 7 trustee, voters will choose among three candidates—Jeffrey Akaka, M.D., of Honolulu; Stephen Brown, M.D., of Casper, Wyo.; and Annette Matthews, M.D., of Portland, Ore. Area 7 consists of the Western states other than California, as well as Hawaii and Alaska.
APA’s resident-fellow members (RFMs) will also have to decide among three candidates in the contest to be the next RFM trustee-elect. Running in that race are Alicia Barnes, D.O., M.P.H., a resident at UMDMJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, N.J.; Stella Cai, M.D., a resident at the University of California, Irvine; and Sarah Schmidhofer, M.D., a resident at Brown University.
APA announced the slate of candidates October 31, and while it is considered public, it is not official until the Board approves it at its meeting next month.
All members for whom APA has a valid e-mail address on file will receive an electronic ballot. Other members will receive a paper ballot along with instructions on how to vote online if they so choose. All candidates and their supporters should review APA’s updated election guidelines.
See the box on page 4 for a list of election deadlines. ■
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Published online: 20 November 2014
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