APA Trustee, Area 6 (California), First Term

Member, APA Membership Committee

Liaison, APA Council on Quality Improvement

Formerly District Branch Representative to APA Assembly

Member, CMA Scientific Advisory Panel

Past Presidencies:

California Psychiatric Association

Northern California Psychiatric Association

Santa Clara County Psychiatric Association

Santa Clara County Medical Society

Formerly, California Mental Health Planning Council

Volunteer, Multiple Community Mental Health Programs

Psychiatry, Private Practice

Life Fellow; Currently Area 6 Trustee (First Term); Past Presidencies: California Psychiatric Association, Northern California Psychiatric Association, Santa Clara County Psychiatric Association, Santa Clara County Medical Society. APA Membership Committee; APA Council on Quality Improvement. Past Delegate to California Medical Association: CMA Scientific Advisory Council; Formerly, Member Council on California Mental Health Planning; Volunteer, Multiple Community Mental Health Programs; Past Head of Brain Function Study Unit in San Jose, Neuropsychiatric Unit, Department of Psychiatry (San Jose); Traumatic Brain Injury Consultation; Psychopharmacological and Psychiatric Consultation to Business and Industry.

• Scope of Practice. Fight for maintenance of high-quality mental health care by opposing unwise legislation that would dangerously expand scope of practice of nonphysician mental health practitioners, particularly efforts to obtain prescribing authority.

• Parity. Fight for parity of coverage for mental health problems, with regulatory and reimbursement differential recognition of the "24 Things" that can be provided by psychiatric physicians that cannot be provided by nonphysician mental health workers.

• Elimination of Managed Care Impediments to Providing Quality Mental Health Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment.

• Collaboration and Strengthened Assistance Not Only From Our National APA Organization But From Organized Medicine and Allied Mental Health Organizations.

• Increase Value of Membership in Order to Increase Recruitment and Retention in Organized Psychiatry.

• Foster Long-Term Public Relations Efforts Locally and Nationally. Increase knowledge and awareness among the public and legislators of significant differences in knowledge, training, skills, and greater cost-effective outcomes associated with integrated mental health care that can be provided only by psychiatric physicians.

• Improve Our Ability to Communicate With Our Members, Members-in-Training, and Medical Students Who May Want to Consider Psychiatry As a Career.

• Encourage the Legislature to Re-Expand Openings in Medical Schools to Allow More Psychiatrists to Be Trained.

• Promote Greater Interaction and Cross-Training With Other Physician Colleagues to Strengthen Quality Grass-Roots Assistance for Those in Need of Mental Health Assistance.

• Promote the Greater Use of Joint Meetings Between Psychiatry and Other Medical Disciplines As Well As Greater Use of Telepsychiatry in Consultation and Liaison Situations, Particularly Those Involving Rural and Inner-City Areas.

• Fight for Adequate Reimbursement for Psychiatric Services.

• Promote Increasing Support for Psychiatric Research.

Your SUPPORT for my candidacy is earnestly requested.

Work: 40%—Private Office Consultations

30%—San Andreas Regional Center for the Developmentally Disabled (SARC)

30%—Consultation to business and industry

Income:40%—Private Office

30%—San Andreas Regional Center for the Developmentally Disabled (SARC)

30%—Consultation to business and industry