AAGP 2012 Annual Meeting - Washington, DC - March 16



		AAGP was founded in 1978 to foster the specialty of geriatric psychiatry and promote the delivery of quality mental health care to the aging population. A 16-member Board of Directors that is elected by the general membership governs the AAGP. In addition, nine Committees provide input to the AAGP Board of Directors on substantive issues. Task Forces are appointed by the AAGP Board to accomplish time limited projects. AAGP's national headquarters office is located in Bethesda, Maryland – near the National Institutes of Health and not far from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The core programs of the Association include: Education and Professional Development, Late Life Mental Health Research, and Clinical Practice which are carried out through a variety of strategies including: governmental affairs and advocacy, communications, educational programming, and liaison activities. Each of these program is critical to the strategic future of the association and integral to the overall goals set forth by the AAGP Board of Directors. AAGP publishes a monthly scientific peer reviewed journal, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (www.AJGPonline.org), as well as a bi-monthly newsletter, Geriatric Psychiatry News. AAGP maintains a primary website (www.AAGPonline.org) and hold an Annual Meeting in March (www.AAGPmeeting.org). Mission Statement The AAGP is a national association representing and serving its members and the field of geriatric psychiatry. It is dedicated to promoting the mental health and well being of older people and improving the care of those with late-life mental disorders. AAGP's mission is to enhance the knowledge base and standard of practice in geriatric psychiatry through education and research and to advocate for meeting the mental health needs of older Americans. AAGP's Strategic Plan AAGP shall increase the number and promote the expertise of geriatric psychiatrists. AAGP shall improve access to appropriate, quality mental health care for older adults. AAGP shall increase the awareness of the mental health needs of the nation's elderly and promote effective treatments and the role of the geriatric psychiatrist. AAGP shall enhance the practice of geriatric psychiatrists and improve mental health practice in relevant disciplines and throughout all sites of care. AAGP shall increase the quality and quantity of late life mental health research. AAGP Board of Directors, 2011-2012 *President* Allan A. Anderson, MD Cambridge, MD *President-Elect* Paul D. S. Kirwin, MD West Haven, CT *Past President* Jeffrey M. Lyness, MD Rochester, NY *Secretary/Treasurer* Susan K. Schultz, MD Iowa City, IA *Secretary/Treasurer-Elect* Josepha A. Cheong, MD Gainesville, FL *CEO/Executive Vice President* Christine M. deVries Bethesda, MD *Board of Directors* Iqbal "Ike" Ahmed, MD Honolulu, HI Patricia A. Arean, PhD San Francisco, CA Brent P. Forester, MD Belmont, MA Blaine S. Greenwald, MD Glen Oaks, NY Maria D. Llorente, MD Washington, DC Constantine G. Lyketsos, MD, MHS Baltimore, MD Amita R. Patel, MD, CMD, MHA, CPE Dayton, OH Daniel D. Sewell, MD San Diego, CA Larry Tune, MD Atlanta, GA Ellen Whyte, MD Pittsburgh, PA Steve H. Koh, MD, MPH, MBA MIT Board Member San Diego, CA AAGP Committee Chairs, 2011-2012 Annual Meeting Program Committee Paul Kiriwn, MD 2012 Chair Dan Sewell MD 2013 Chair Clinical Practice Committee Robert Greenberg, MD Co-Chair Maureen Nash, MD Co-Chair CME Committee Barbara Kamholz, MD Diversity Committee Jordan F. Karp, MD Co-Chair Maria D. Llorente, MD Co-Chair Education Committee Daniel D. Sewell, MD, Chair Dinesh Mittal, MD, Vice-Chair Nominations Committee Maria Llorente, MD Research Committee Eric Lense, MD, Chair Helen Lavretsky, MD, Vice-Chair Public Policy and Communications Committee Karen Blank, MD Teaching and Training Committee Paul D. Kirwin, MD, Chair Brent Forester, MD, Vice-Chair AAGP-PAC Board of Directors, 2011-2012 Karen Blank, MD Chair Paul D. Kirwin, MD Treasurer Allan A. Anderson, MD Melinda S. Lantz, MD Helen Lavretsky, MD Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Board of Directors Chair Fred Blow, PhD Vice-Chair Melinda Lantz, MD Secretary/Treasurer Gary Kennedy, MD Board Members Martha Bruce, PhD Eve Byrd, RN Maria Llorente, MD Susan Schultz, MD Keith Stowell, MD American Journal or Geriatric Psychiatry Editorial Board, 2011 Dilip V. Jeste, MD Editor-In-Chief Charles F. Reynolds III, MD Associate Editor Anand Kumar, MD Associate Editor Stephan Arndt, Ph.D. Statistical Editor Dan Blazer, MD, MPH, PhD Chair, Journal Advisory Committee Brent T. Mausbach, PhD Assistant to the Editor Ipsit Vahia, MBBS, MD Assistant to the Editor Editorial Board Howard Aizenstein M.D., Ph.D., Pittsburgh, PA Aartjan Beekman, MD, Amsterdam, Netherlands Maria T. Caserta, MD, PhD, Chicago, IL Yeates Conwell, M.D., Rochester, NY Joseph J. Gallo, MD, MPH, Philadelphia, PA Philip Harvey, PhD, Miami, FL Helen Kales, MD, Ann Arbor, MI Helen Lavretsky, MD, Los Angeles, CA Eric Lenze, M.D., Pittsburgh, PA Benoit H. Mulsant, M.D., Pittsburgh, PA Perminder S. Sachdev, M.D., Ph.D., Randwick, Australia Ingmar Skoog, MD, PhD, Mölndal, Sweden Top of page Meeting Home Page