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APA selects Jeffrey Geller as next president-elect
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The American Psychiatric Association has chosen Jeffrey Geller, MD, MPH, as its next president-elect, according to a press release. The APA Board of Trustees will confirm the election results at its March meeting.
“I am honored that my colleagues have chosen me to help lead our medical society,” Geller said in the release.
“I plan to focus on improving the profession, partly by easing the administrative, documentation and certification burdens placed on our members as they work to deliver high-quality care and treatment to our patients,” he continued. “I will also strive to advocate for equal coverage of mental illnesses as mandated by law, but not enforced, and to combat the terribly harmful discrimination against both psychiatric patients and psychiatrists. One more year of marginalization is 12 months too many.”
Geller, professor of psychiatry and director of public sector psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has previously served in numerous APA leadership positions.
Geller’s term as president-elect of the APA will begin this May at the APA Annual Meeting — when the current president-elect Bruce Schwartz, MD, begins his term as president — and he will assume the role of APA president in May 2020, according to the release.
Other APA leadership candidates who will take office after the annual meeting include:
- Sandra DeJong, MD, as secretary;
- Rahn Bailey, MD, as minority/underrepresented trustee;
- Kenneth Certa , MD, as area 3 trustee;
- Melinda Young, MD, as area 6 trustee; and
- Michael Mensah, M D, MPH, as resident-fellow member trustee-elect.