MEDIA ADVISORY: Media Encouraged to Attend APA Annual Meeting in Atlanta

Jan 28, 2016

WHAT:

The American Psychiatric Association’s 2016 Annual Meeting features nationally recognized experts in psychiatry and mental health policy, research and clinical practice presenting in hundreds of sessions and new research posters. Special sessions will feature Atul Gawande, M.D., surgeon and best-selling author with a bold vision for changes and improvements in health care, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Psychiatry: Claiming our Future.”

WHO:

• Atul Gawande, M.D., professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health; author Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
• Justice Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; author Breaking the Vicious Circle
• Renée Binder, M.D., APA President
• Maria A. Oquendo, M.D., APA President-elect
• Steve Koh, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Annual Meeting Scientific Program Chair
• Saul Levin, M.D., M.P.A., APA CEO and Medical Director
• Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director , National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Richard J. Bonnie, J.D., Director, Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy, University of Virginia
• Larry R. Faulkner, M.D. President and CEO, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• Fred “Rusty” Gage, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, the Gage Lab at the Salk Institute

WHEN/WHERE:

The meeting will run from Saturday, May 14, to Wednesday, May 18, in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center.

• Webinar: Advance Media Briefing: May 4, 2:00 p.m. ET
• Opening Session and Special Lecture by Atul Gawande, M.D. Sunday, May 15, 4:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. ET
• New Research Media Briefing: Saturday, May 14, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET

TO REGISTER:

Credentialed media can register through online advanced registration for journalists.

The Onsite Meeting Press Room, Georgia World Congress Center, Room B305, will be open Friday, May 13 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday – Tuesday, May 14-17, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Wednesday, May 18, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Daily press briefings will be held in the Press Room Saturday through Tuesday at 9 a.m.

More Information: See the APA Annual Meeting site, the preliminary Program Guide, and APA meeting app. (Available at the Apple Store and Google Play.) Contact APA at press@psych.org or 703-907-8640.

Join the conversation at #APAAM16.

The American Psychiatric Association is a national medical specialty society whose physician members specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research of mental illnesses, including substance use disorders. Visit the APA at www.psychiatry.org.

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