Assembly to Elect New Officers

The APA Assembly will hold its annual election next month at its meeting held in conjunction with APA's 2009 annual meeting in San Francisco.

Running unopposed for speaker-elect is the current recorder, Bruce Hershfield, M.D., of Maryland. The Nominating Committee announced that it could find no Assembly member to run against him despite overtures made to many members. Hershfield is a private practitioner and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Competing to replace Hershfield as Assembly recorder are Priscilla Ray, M.D., a representative of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, and Ann Marie Sullivan, M.D., a representative of the New York County District Branch. Ray is deputy chair of psychiatry at Methodist Hospital in Houston and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine, and Sullivan is senior vice president for the Queens Health Network in New York and a clinical professor of psychiatry at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. ▪