ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congratulations to the 2012 IAPA Awardees!!

Outstanding Academician Award: Dr. KN Roy Chengappa, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Outstanding Service Award:  Dr. Vedavyas Biliyar, Medical director, Adolescent services, Nashville, Tennessee.

Outstanding Public Sector Award: Dr. Vijayalakshmi Jayachandran, President, Confidential Care, Munster, IN

Outstanding Resident Award: Dr. Parikshit Deshmukh, PGY-4 Resident, Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Outstanding  Chapter Award: Maryland/DC chapter.

IAPA Salutes

Dr. Dilip Jeste

The IAPA would like to announce that our very own, Dr. Dilip Jeste has won the APA’s President-elect elections for 2011! Dr. Jeste received 58% of the votes and came out a distinct winner! On behalf of all our membership, we extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Jeste; wish him many more years of phenomenal success and look forward to further enhancing the collaboration between APA and IAPA, under his leadership! 

In brief, Dr. Jeste has been an IAPA member for over a quarter century, and has immensely contributed towards IAPA. For the APA, Dr. Jeste serves as a distinguished Life Fellow, elected Trustee-at-Large, and a member of the DSM-5 Task Force. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, Vice Chair of the Council on Aging, and Co-Chair of the Task Force on Tardive Dyskinesia. He has served on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Psychiatry and has been a recipient of several awards from the APA, including its Research Award, Jack Weinberg Award in Geriatric Psychiatry, George Tarjan Award for IMGs, and Distinguished Lecturer Awards. Dr. Jeste has been a prolific author and his research has spanned from neuroscience to community psychiatry and from schizophrenia to successful cognitive aging. In one of his recent research, he has compared the concept of wisdom in the Bhagavad Gita with that in the modern western literature, and showed that there were numerous similarities in the conceptualization of wisdom, suggesting that wisdom may have neurobiological roots. He has mentored over 200 young trainees, many of them women and those from minority groups including IMGs. He has been listed in the “Best Doctors in America”, and is one of only about 60 psychiatrists across the world, who has been elected to the Institute of Medicine.

To enhance collaborations between APA and IAPA, Dr. Jeste will continue to advocate for a voting minority and under-represented (MUR) member on the APA Board of Trustees. He would also like to develop a separate listserv for residents from minority ethnic groups so that they can communicate with and help one another. He plans on enhancing the role of the APA as a resource for IMGs –in terms of visa availability, residency slots available for IMGs, choosing underserved areas for meeting visa requirements. Once again, our Salutations & wholehearted  Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Dilip Jeste!

Congratulations:

Dr. Chand Nair : 2012 NAMI Psychiatrist of the year

Dr. Venkatraman Bhat, MD for winning 2012 APA/Lilly resident research award and the IAPA grant for education, service and research.

Dr. Suraj Pal Singh MD MRC Psych M Sc. for winning 2012 APA/Lilly Resident Research award.

Dear Colleagues: 

Greetings!

Hope you are all enjoying the Spring, and have finalized your plans for attending our annual convention on Sunday, May 6^th, 2012 in Downtown Marriott, Philadelphia, PA.

We are very excited about the upcoming meeting insofar as it is also a celebration of a significant milestone of our Association: We will honor three distinguished  members - Dilip V. Jeste, MD, Paramjit Joshi, MD, and Rama Rao Gogineni, MD - of our Association for their exceptional achievements. Dr. Jeste takes over the leadership of American Psychiatric Association in May, 2012; Dr. Joshi begins presidency of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2013; in 2011, Dr. Gogineni was installed as President of the American Association of Social Psychiatry for two years!

The historic success of our members is also our Association's success! Surely, you will like to join all of us in felicitating Drs. Jeste, Joshi and Gogineni. Since we are expecting a record number of attendees, I should like to encourage you to pre-register via our website – www.myiapa.org

Each year, the Association recognizes our outstanding members in 4 categories, and we look forward to honoring the recipients of the IAPA awards – Drs. Roy Chengappa (Academician), Vijayalakshmi Jayachandran (Public Sector), Vedavyasa Biliyar (Service), and Parikshit Deshmukh (Resident). Dr. Venkataramana Bhat will receive the IAPA Board of Trustees (BOT) award and Maryland Chapter will receive Outstanding Chapter Award.

An excellent scientific program includes 5 speakers – Drs. Roy Chengappa, Panchajanya Paul, Nisha Warikoo, Ananda Pandurangi and Salman Akhtar. For details, please browse our website – www.myiapa.org.

 I am very pleased and proud to share with you that an unprecedented number of our members-in-training/early career psychiatrists will participate in poster presentation, and two of them – Drs. Paul and Warikoo – will deliver oral presentation!

We look forward to welcoming you at the convention.

Should you need any help, please contact us.

With best wishes,

Rudra

Rudra Prakash, MD

President

As always, do not hesitate to contact any of the IAPA office bearers with questions and/or comment

EVENTS/MEETINGS
 

Consulting Opportunities with IAPA

What: Treatment of Schizophrenia.
When: Tue May 8, 2012 at 5 PM for 4hrs.
Where: In a private room in Restaurant in Philadelphia, near convention center.
Requirements: IAPA Member working with patients with Diagnosis of Schizophrenia or working in CMHC. Honorarium:  $ 800.
Contact: Shivkumar Hatti MD MBA, shatti1@aol.com

33rd IAPA Scientific/Business MEETING IN PHILADELPHIASunday May 6, 2012.

Location:  Grand Ballroom Salon H Philadelphia Marriott
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia PA, 19107.

Philadelphia - General View.

 Philadelphia - Night View

Over 300 psychiatrists are expected to be in attendance, including dignitaries from the APA, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, the Indian Psychiatric Society, and the British Indian Psychiatric Association. 

Society for Study of Psychiatry and Culture: Annual Conference 
New York, May 9th-12th, 2012 
(immediately after the APA meeting)
Register before February 15th , 2012 - early discount!

Mid Term CME at Jodhpur: 
May 19th and 20th , 2012

Art of Psychiatry meeting at Hyderabad August 11th & 12th 2012

Annual National Conference of IAPP (ANCIAPP) at Chandigarh:
October 5th, 6th, 7th 2012.
Contact: Avdesh Sharma, MD 
sharmaavdesh@gmail.com or 
M.S. Reddy, MD drmsreddy@gmail.com

West Zone, India Psychiatric Society Meeting Nasik, Maharashtra:
October 19-21, 2012.
Contact: Umesh Nagapurkar, MD umeshanjali@gmail.com
011-91-982 314 6088

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