by Ramaswamy Viswanathan The SSPC Annual Meeting, May 9 – 12, was held in a historic part of New York City known...
SSPC 2012 Meeting in the Big Apple
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Recent September 2012 News
President’s Message
Dear Members and Friends, I hope everyone is having a good summer and looking forward to a productive fall. SSPC is...
Book Your Hotel Now for the 2013 Annual Meeting
Room reservations are open at the Delta Chelsea Hotel for the 2013 meeting. A block of rooms on the Executive...
Past September 2012 News
Education Committee Report
by Larry Merkel and Jim Griffith, co-chairs We are working on several ideas for trainees this year: a. Our case supervision session for trainees at the 2012 meeting in New York received very positive reviews. (See the resident’s review in this newsletter.) We...
Program Committee
by Roberto Lewis-Fernandez The Program Committee is busy preparing for the annual meeting, planning conjointly with Hong Fook for the first day of the meeting and working on logistics. The themes of the four symposia sponsored by SSPC on the first day are: an update...
Membership Committee Report
by Alpna Munshi Our committee is excited to be leading the recruitment and retention of a diverse, interdisciplinary membership within SSPC. We have identified a set of priorities for the committee’s work over the next year: a. connecting with professions and...
Psychiatry Resident Perspective on the 2012 SSPC Meeting in New York City
by Shaneel Shah, Karen Mu, and Shivana Naidoo As psychiatry residents, we try to understand how our patients define health and suffering through their cultural lens. We assess their understanding of mental illness, its cause and course if left...
Thoughts from the Editor
by Shannon Suo SSPC heads into a new era with a new president, new editor, and new members. I hope that the changes we are making are acceptable to those members who have been the lifeblood of the organization for many years and welcome feedback from everyone. If you...