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APA FELLOWSHIP
Have you been an APA General Member for at least 5 consecutive years? Are you certified by the ABPN, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or the American Osteopathic Association? If you have answered “yes” to these two questions, you are ready to take the next step in your professional career. Apply for APA Fellowship directly through the American Psychiatric Association. An application can be obtained through the APA’s Membership Department by calling 888-357-7924, or you can obtain information through the APA’s website www.psych.org In addition to filling in the application form, you will be required to submit three leters of recommendation from current Fellows, Life Fellows, Distinguished Fellows or Distinguished Life Fellows. Your application and letters of recommendation should be returned directly to the APA’s Membership Department, where it will be reviewed, forwarded to the GLIPS office for review and comment, and finally approved by the APA’s Membership Committee and the APA’s Board of Trustees. Members who apply and are approved for the category of Fellow this year, will officially become Fellows on January 1, 2008. In addition, newly elected Fellows will be invited to participate in the Convocation of Distringuished Fellows during the 2008 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Don’t delay. Deadline for submitting application is September 1, 2007. For additional information please contact either the APA or the GLIPS office.
VOLUNTEER WRITERS NEEDED
Newsletter Editor, Peter J. Stein, MD, continues to encourage members of GLIPS to submit articles for publication in the Newsletter. Articles should be transmitted to Dr. Stein via email at portend2009@aol.com. All articles are subject to approval and editing by Dr. Stein.
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INCOMING PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
By: Louis M. Najarian, MD
With a changing of the guard at GLIPS, the first order of business is to thank Dr. Jane Perr, our outgoing President, for two years of outstanding leadership as President and 10 years of devoted service to GLIPS as a Representative to the APA and Area II, and as a Board member. She leaves her mark on the Society. Her focus on increasing membership, especially Members-in-Training, has provided a re-juvenization in the Society with youthful enthusiasm.
Concurrent with Dr. Insel’s prediction of the future of our discipline, the future of our Society is also healthy with energy.
I invite the entire membership to join the Board to continue Jane’s legacy with a priority of focusing on our young colleagues at the three major teaching institutions on Long Island (Long Island Jewish-North Shore University, Nassau University Medical Center, and Stonybrook) and involvement with our Society. A second focus is an exciting opportunity to take our profession to the public via the venue of Town Hall Meetings at an appropriate time and place. I hope this offers a plan for the coming year where we decide for ourselves how we function as a Society representing our profession as psychiatrists.
BOOK GROUP
A number of members are interested in forming a (fiction) book group. The group would meet at members' homes, on a regular basis, about every 6 weeks. Day of the week and time would be decided by those participating; first meeting would most likely be after the summer. Anyone interested should e-mail Karyl Cole, at karylc@optonline.net.
NEWSLETTER ON-LINE
With this issue of the Newsletter, we are beginning to post copy in the Member Resources section of the GLIPS web site www.longislandpsych.org. Eventually this area will be password protected - more about this in the next edition.