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APA chooses new president‐elect
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32697
Subject(s) - accountability , medical school , law , center (category theory) , management , vice president , political science , psychology , library science , medical education , medicine , computer science , economics , chemistry , crystallography
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has chosen Rebecca W. Brendel, M.D., J.D. , as the medical society's next president‐elect. The results were released Feb. 12 but are not official until the APA board of trustees confirms them at its March meeting. Brendel is director of the master's degree program at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, of which she is also an associate director. She bases her clinical work in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is the director of law and ethics at the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior. She is assistant professor of psychi‐atry at Harvard Medical School. Among the priorities Brendel named during her campaign were parity and practice; member engagement; and accountability, professionalism and self‐regulation. She will assume the office of president in May 2022 at the APA annual meeting.