ARLINGTON, Va. — The membership of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has chosen Altha Stewart, M.D., as its next president-elect. She is first African-American to lead the APA, which dates back to 1844. She is also the fourth consecutive woman chosen to lead the association. The results were made public today, but are not official until the APA Board of Directors confirms the election at its March meeting.
Stewart is Associate Professor of Psychiatry/Director, Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Her career has spanned three decades of public sector administration, including director of public behavioral health systems in Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania.
“I am honored and humbled by my selection by my fellow members,”...
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