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In this issue . VOLUME XXXVIV(3) • SEPTEMBER 2013 AGLP 2013 Award Winners 1 Roy Harker, Executive Director Editor’s Column 2 Eric Yarbrough, MD President’s Column 3 Kenneth Ashley, MD Vice-President’s Column 4 Eric Yarbrough, MD International Meetings 4 Gene Nakajima, MD JGLMH Updates 5 Mary Barber, MD AGLP Booth Volunteers Roy Harker, Executive Director 5 IPS Philadelphia Roy Harker, Executive Director 6 Upcoming Subspecialty Meetings 7 Caitlin Ryan receives the 2013 John Fryer Award from Mary Barber, M.D., Chair of the Fryer Award Committee, Kenn Ashley, MD Phil Bialer, M.D., APA Caucus Representative, and Kenn Ashley, M.D., President of AGLP. More Pictures of the APA San Francisco Annual Meeting follow on page 11. Photos by Eric Yarbrough AGLP Meeting Minutes 8 Jonathan Weiss, MD, Secretary AGLP 2013 Award Winners Welcome to our new Members 10 The Executive Board of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists AGLP Annual Meetings Photos conferred several awards at the AGLP Annual Awards Reception at 11 Eric Yarbrough, MD Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, in San Francisco, on Monday, May 20, 2013. AGLP Sponsors 13 Alan Schwartz, M.D., was selected for the 2013 James Paulsen Award for outstanding contributions on behalf of the LGBT Community Membership Forms 14 and service to AGLP through his work as Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. Alan, working as Co-editor in Chief of the Journal for the past five years along with Mary Barber, M.D., has been in private practice in New York City for the past sixteen years, conducting psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychopharmacology and clinical supervision, after completing a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in HIV Alan Schwartz, M.D. psychiatry at Cornell Medical Center. He completed his Residency in Psychiatry at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. He is a Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White institute, where he is also on the Board of the LGBT Study Group and the White Societies Ethics committee. He is the chair of the LGBT Committee of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, which is currently working on a project to create a short Educational Film about Sexual Orientation Change Efforts which is meant to serve as a resource to licensing boards, ethics boards and profes- sional sanctioning boards asked to review complaints against providers of such “treatment.” Dr. Schwartz could not attend this meeting and will be given his award at the Annual Meeting in New York in May of 2014. Continued on page 6 ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS VOLUME XXXVIV(3)• SEPTEMBER 2013 2 The Newsletter of the Editor’s Column Association of Gay Eric Yarbrough, MD and Lesbian Psychiatrists [email protected] Editor, Eric Yarbrough, MD his has been a hard article to gather together from some reason. Normally, I sit down at my keyboard and ideas start to pour out of me. It's easy when Published quarterly from 4514 Chester Avenue, I'm writing about my day-to-day life. However mundane my waking life Philadelphia, PA 19143-3707. seems, looking at it through a different lens gives me perspective and some The views expressed in the Newsletter are those sort of path on which I can see the future stretching out. of the writer and do not necessarily represent T the opinions of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists. The sexual orientation of My short time as newsletter editor has come to an end. I took the job two years go any writer or any person mentioned in the when George Harrison left. As acting secretary of the organization, I somehow Newsletter should not be inferred unless specifi- cally stated. Mailing lists for the Newsletter are thought it would be temporary. When I look at the length of the organization and confidential, to be used only by the Association the previous people who served, maybe it is somewhat temporary. My new job will of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists, and do not imply sexual orientation. be as president-elect of AGLP. That means that in May of next year I'll start serving INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Eric Yarbrough, MD as your president. A scary thought. With the expectations of my new position, I Persons wishing to submit articles for publication thought that serving as the editor of the newsletter would be too much. should send them to: Eric Yarbrough, M.D., Editor, Newsletter of the AGLP; 411 W 114th Putting together this newsletter is a timely process. Roy Harker, without question, Street Suite 4B; New York, NY 10025; Office Phone: 212-523-6936; Fax: 212-523-4911; E- does the majority of the work. My job is to gather articles, use my poor grammar mail: [email protected]). Submissions should skills to attempt to identify misspellings as such, and write this newsletter editor be clearly readable. Submissions on electronic media are preferred. Submissions become the column. Since I've been vice-president as well, that column was authored by me too. property of AGLP and will not be returned unless I try to make it focus on the direction of the organization however and leave my requested and accompanied by a self-addressed and stamped envelope. The Newsletter reserves personal rants to this short piece. It's a lonely job, and one with little feedback. the right to make editorial changes and to shorten articles to fit space limitations. Name, address, daytime telephone number, and a short biograph- ical statement about the author should accompany The newsletter gave me a place to catalog my thoughts and the submission even if the author requests anonymity in publication (which is discouraged). scribe my anxieties. Journaling helps. My patients who are The deadline for inclusion in the next issue is able to put thought to paper find it beneficial, and now I can October 15, 2013. see its effects in my own life. Having a narrative of who you ADVERTISING RATES are and where you are going is one of the more beneficial The Newsletter of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists accepts limited advertising mechanisms of our treatment as psychiatrists. depending upon space and applicability to issues affecting psychiatrists who either are gay or lesbian or treat gay and lesbian patients. The mailing lists for AGLP are confidential and Having an open forum to display my thoughts over the past year has been quite never sold or provided to any vendor. cathartic. I've had so much movement in my life that it was hard to keep everything Full Page Ad $350 in my head in order. The newsletter gave me a place to catalog my thoughts and Half-Page Ad $250 scribe my anxieties. Journaling helps. My patients who are able to put thought to Business Card $125 paper find it beneficial, and now I can see its effects in my own life. Having a narra- Community service announcements are printed tive of who you are and where you are going is one of the more beneficial mecha- without charge, but are accepted only on a limited basis depending upon space limitations nisms of our treatment as psychiatrists. and applicability. You have two new editors starting out with the next issue. I'll leave it to them to View this and all AGLP Newsletters introduce themselves. They will put their own fingerprint on the newsletter and that by visiting our will make it quite exciting. As for me, I'll still be writing the VP column over the next website at www.AGLP.org. year, and the president column after that. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it so Scan the QR business-like, but for the sanity of the organization, I will try my best. Code to the left to visit the entire archive. For anyone out there that has gotten this far and received the information I have put down in these pages, I appreciate your attention. It's always a warm feeling to think that we might have company with us along the way. AGLP National Office Roy Harker, Executive Director [email protected] 4514 Chester Avenue • • • Philadelphia, PA 19143-3707 Voice: (215)222-2800 Fax: (215)222-3881 [email protected] www.aglp.org ASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS VOLUME XXXVIV(3)• SEPTEMBER 2013 3 AGLP Board of Directors, President’s Column Kenneth Ashley, M.D. Advisory Council, and Standing Committees [email protected] 2013-2014 omentous times PRESIDENT The past few weeks have been filled with highs and lows. The rulings of the Kenn Ashley, M.D. 212-844-1864 [email protected] Supreme Court were good for marriage equality and made NYC Pride partic- VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT ularly festive, but their rulings on the harassment lawsuits and the Voting Eric Yarbrough, M.D. 646-256-7009 [email protected] M IMMEDIATE-PAST PRESIDENT Rights Act were troublesome. That last Sunday in June during the NYC Pride Ubaldo Leli, M.D. 212-532-1204 [email protected] Parade it seemed more crowded than ever, as my hospital colleagues from Beth Israel SECRETARY and St Lukes-Roosevelt marched with our signs which proclaimed, once again, our Jonathan Weiss, M.D. 646-285-2436 [email protected] hospitals had been recognized as Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality by the Human TREASURER Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). Serena Volpp, M.D. 443-834-3215 [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR It has also been great to see that other NYC hospitals have also be named Leaders in Eric Yarbrough, M.D. 646-256-7009 [email protected] the HEI.