UPCOMING EVENTS

163rd Annual Meeting
May 22-26, 2010
New Orleans, LA
Pride & Promise towards a New Psychiatry
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September 26-29,2009
(Orvieto, Italy)
Second World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry. More information available from www.WACP2009Congress.org

November 28-December 2, 2009
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
4th International Congress on Brain and Behaviour. More information at www.psychiatry.gr.

DR. NAND RECEIVES ALEXANDRA SYMONDS LECTURE AWARD

Dr. Surinder Nand, current president of the IAPA, has been named by the Association of Women Psychiatrists (AWP) as the 2009 recipient of its Alexandra Symonds Lecture Award. This award was established in memory of Alexandra Symonds, MD, founder of the AWP, and acknowledges a woman psychiatrist who has demonstrated sustained, high-level contributions and significant leadership in advancing women's health.

In accepting this honor, Dr. Nand will be delivering the Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture during the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco.

The lecture is entitled "Psychiatrists' Role in Prevention and Intervention in Domestic Violence Among South Asians."
Time: 5/18/2009, 9-10:30am
Location: Room 130/131 Moscone Center
Final Program : LO4

Dr. Nand, along with Dr. Visha Madan MD, will also be co-chairing an IAPA-sponsored Media Workshop on the topic of domestic violence in the South Asian community. The workshop will feature the film, "Provoked," which stars Ashwarya Rai, and which depicts the real story of a Sikh woman who endured domestic abuse.
Time: 5/19/09, 9AM-12:30 PM
Location: Room 124, Moscone Center North
Final Program: MW4

DR. RAO RECEIVES GEORGE TARJAN AWARD

Dr. Nyapati Rao has been selected by the American Psychiatric Association as the the 2009 recipient of the George Tarjan Award, which recognizes individuals making significant contributions to the integration of international medical graduates (IMGs) into American psychiatry.

As the recipient of this award, Dr. Rao will be delivering the George Tarjan Award lecture during the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco. The lecture is entitled "Psychiatric Education Across Civilization:The Search for a Guru and the IMG."
Time: 5/18/09, 11AM-12:30 PM
Location: Room 130/131, Moscone Center
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Dear Friends,

Today I write my last message to you as the President of the Indo American Psychiatric Association. Serving you and this organization has given me immense pleasure. I feel proud of our organization and what we stand for.

Our Membership continues to grow. It is heartwarming to see many first, as well as second generation, young psychiatrists of Indian origin joining our organization. We profiled ten bright members in training and early career psychiatrists in our special issue of the IAPA Forum in Oct 2008. These ten were a small representation of many other IAPA members who are making a name for themselves in the field of psychiatry.

The IAPA continues to play a major role in the American Psychiatric Association. Past several years have seen one or more of our members contesting and winning the elections for the APA offices. Dr Dilip Jeste is currently Trustee-at-Large for 2008-2011. Dr. Srinivasaraghavan is the Vice President of American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. A number of our members are represented in the APA assembly and various components of the APA, and several of our members helped shape the Annual Meeting of the APA this year.

At the 61st Annual National Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS), held in Agra in 2009, I and other representatives of the IAPA worked closely with our sister organizations to strengthen our ties and to collaborate with each other to promote education, service and research. Dr Sanjay Dube, IAPA liaison to the Indian Psychiatric Society, has written a summary of ANCIPS 2009 , which is published in the April 2009 issue of the Forum.

I hope to see you on Sunday, May 17, 2009 --our team has organized a great Scientific Program, followed by the Banquet and Award Ceremony.

Surinder Nand, MD
IAPA Past President, 2007-09