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American Psychiatric Association Assembly Meeting

May 2019

By John P.D. Shemo, MD, DLFAPA

Do you have an issue or concern for the APA? Please contact Dr. John Shemo, [email protected], or Dr. Adam Kaul, [email protected] or Dr. Varun Choudhary, [email protected] and see if they believe a white paper should be submitted to the APA Assembly.

Adam Kaul and I were accompanied at the May APA Assembly Meeting in San Francisco by Susan Waller functioning as a substitute for Varun Choudhary.  She served most capably despite being somewhat hobbled by a knee problem.  Her perseverance was truly admirable.

Prior to the meeting a number of action papers were posted on the Assembly list-serve which led to a lot of feedback and debate, which then led to revisions in the papers - a process very similar to what happens in the reference committees at the meeting.  This was the most active use of the Assembly list-serve in this manner that I have seen.  The occurrence of all this interchange seemed to “stir people up” and we thereby had the largest number of action papers submitted I have ever seen at a single meeting, 49 in total.  Ironically, this occurred at an Assembly Meeting where some of our work time was diverted by the 125th anniversary of the founding of the APA ceremonies. 

The actual number of papers that were presented and debated on the floor of the Assembly was, as usual, slightly diminished by a few being withdrawn and others being put on the consent calendar.  The consent calendar is a list of papers that the Procedures Committee believes are so non-controversial that they would be passed unanimously.  This list is distributed to all Assembly members and posted near the start of the opening session.  A paper put on the consent calendar will be removed and therefore be presented and debated on the floor at the request of any single Assembly member and this does occur regularly with at least a few - this time it was seven. 

I will briefly review some of the action papers and APA position statements that were addressed:

This is only a partial list of the Assembly actions at this meeting.  It was rather amazing that we completed the entire agenda. 

As always, I will end this report with the reminder that the PSV Assembly representatives are there in the Assembly to serve the PSV membership and we are eager to hear your ideas about how the APA can best assist you and your patients. 

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