Daniel Anzia Assumes Post as APA Assembly Speaker

May 19, 2016

ARLINGTON, Va. – At the close of the APA Annual Meeting on May 18 in Atlanta, Daniel Anzia, M.D., assumed the role of Speaker of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Assembly of District Branches.

Anzia is psychiatry department chair at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Ill., and Associate Professor at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the APA and a past president of the Illinois Psychiatric Society. Anzia completed medical school at Stanford University and his psychiatry residency at Loyola University of Chicago.

“The Assembly is highly energized and focused on the needs of our APA members and our patients,” Anzia said. “We’re working more smoothly together with the Board of Trustees and the Councils. Alongside the usual flow of ideas and actions, I plan to invite the Assembly’s creative attention to a specific APA strategic goal for each Assembly meeting.”

The APA Assembly is a deliberative, advisory body to the APA Board of Trustees. It represents the individual members of the Association and acts for them in the affairs of the Association. The Assembly is officiated by a Speaker, Speaker-Elect and Recorder.

The American Psychiatric Association is a national medical specialty society whose 36,500 physician members specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research of mental illnesses, including substance use disorders.

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