PSV in the News

PSV Welcomes New APA Fellows 2001
• Barbara G. Haskins, MD
• Kenneth S. Kendler, MD
• Yaacov R. Pushkin, MD
• Charanjit P. Singh, MD
• David B. Trinkle, MD

PSV is awarded the APA CoPPLA Grant
The Psychiatric Society of Virginia recently received the APA CoPPLA Grant (Commission on Public Policy, Litigation, and Advocacy) in the amount of $32,000. The APA has the responsibility of reviewing requests, usually from District Branches and State Associations, for financial support of projects involving legislation, litigation, and advocacy; of making recommendations regarding funding to the Board of Trustees; and of proposing coordinated activity by other APA components, District Branches, and State Associations. The PSV is using this grant money to hire consultant Cal Whitehead of Whitehead Consultants, LLC for grassroots and advocacy work in the legislative arena.

PSV Foundation is awarded the APA Foundation Disaster Services Fund
The APA Foundation awards the PSV Foundation $32,5000 from the Disaster Services Fund. This fund is to support a public awareness program in Central Virginia about the mental health impact of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The program will include public service announcements on a local Richmond television station that will reach nearly 500,000 households, television call-in segments during the evening news broadcasts, seminars for school guidance counselors and internet resources.

Ram Shenoy, MD, FAPA Past President 2000-2001 Receives the 2001 Clarence A. Holland, MD Award from the Medical Society of Virginia

Ram Shenoy was one of the 2001 recipients of the Dr. Clarence A. Holland Award for his years of dedicated, tireless service on behalf of the patients and physicians of Virginia. Dr. Shenoy has dutifully served the medical community in many leadership positions over the years and has long been a faithful servant and political activist for the patients and physicians of the Commonwealth. Inaugurated in 1996 and named after Senator Clarence A. Holland of Virginia Beach for his 25 years of distinguished legislative service dedicated to medicine, the Holland Award is awarded every year to a Virginia physician for outstanding contributions promoting the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health through political service. The award was presented at the Medical Society of Virginia’s annual meeting in Arlington on November 4.

Fall 2002 Meeting Update
Mark the Date
Friday, September 27 & Saturday, September 28, 2002
Boar’s Head Inn • Charlottesville, Virginia

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