Candidates Announced for 2007 Election

Two names well known to APA members—Spencer Eth, M.D., of New York, and Nada Stotland, M.D., M.P.H., of Chicago—have been chosen to compete to be the Association's next president-elect. The APA Nominating Committee announced its choices last month.

Eth is a professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, based at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He is past chair of the APA Ethics Committee and current chair of the Committee on Commercial Support. He has received the APA Guttmacher Award, the Bruno Lima Award, and a Special Presidential Commendation for national leadership in child trauma following 9/11/01.

Stotland has been director of psychiatric residency training and consultation/liaison at the University of Chicago and medical coordinator for the Illinois Department of Mental Health. She continues in clinical practice. She has chaired the APA Joint Commission on Public Affairs, served as speaker of the Assembly, and is currently treasurer of American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. And APA vice president.

In the race to succeed Stotland as vice president, former APA treasurer Carol Bernstein, M.D., of New York and current APA Trustee-at-Large Renée Binder, M.D., of San Francisco will face off.

Three candidates will vie for the trustee-at-large position. They are Roger Peele, M.D., of Rockville, MD., who is now the Area 3 trustee and an Assembly representative of the Washington (D.C.) Psychiatric Society; Joseph Rubin, M.D., of Portland, Maine, chair of the APA Membership Committee and immediate past speaker of the Assembly; and Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan, M.D., of Anna, Ill., chair of the Council on Social Issues and Public Psychiatry and the representative for Asian-American psychiatrists on the Assembly Committee of Representatives of Minority/Underrepresented Groups.

The contest for member-in-training trustee-elect will also be a three-person race. The three residents running for this post are Chris Esguerra, M.D., of San Francisco; Samantha Shlakman, M.D., of Washington, D.C.; and Lauren Sitzer, M.D., of Boston.

In addition, two of APA's seven Areas will decide who they want to represent them on the Board of Trustees.

In Area 3, Houshang Hamadani, M.D., of Allentown, Pa., will vie with John Urbaitis, M.D., of Baltimore. Hamadani represents Area 3 on the Committee on Public Affairs, and Urbaitis is an Assembly representative for the Maryland Psychiatric Society. Area 3 includes New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

In Area 6, which encompasses all of the California district branches, current Area 6 Trustee Thomas Ciesla, M.D., of Santa Monica will be running against Ravi Goklaney, M.D., of Bakersfield.

Paper ballots will be mailed out on December 22, the same day on which members for whom APA has an e-mail address will receive via e-mail instructions for voting online. Members who would like to receive an online ballot only, an option that can be selected in the Members' Corner of the APA Web site, will receive an e-mail with a ballot-control number and online voting intructions. The address for indicating this choice is<http://onlineapa.psych.org/OnlineBallot.aspx>. The deadline for receipt of both paper and online ballots is 5 p.m. Eastern time on February 5, 2007.

Candidates' biographies and election statements will appear in the December 1 issue of Psychiatric News. ▪