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The editor in chief is responsible for overseeing implementation of editorial policy established by the APA Board of Trustees, among other duties. The deadline for applications is June 30 (see advertisement on page 21).
The term of the current editor in chief, Robert J. Campbell III, M.D., expires in 1998. In making his annual report to the Board of Trustees at its March meeting, Campbell announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract. Subsequently, APA President Harold I. Eist, M.D., appointed members to a search committee to interview candidates for the position and make a recommendation for Campbell's successor to the Board of Trustees, which is responsible for making the appointment.
This committee, named the Psychiatric News Editor Search Committee, is chaired by former APA president Joseph T. English, M.D. Its members are John McIntyre, M.D., former APA president; Michelle Riba, M.D., trustee-at-large; Richard Harding, M.D., former Assembly speaker; and Herbert Peyser, M.D., Area 2 trustee. The consultants are Gloria Pitts, D.O., Board representative of the Committee of Black Psychiatrists; Silvia Wybert Olarte, M.D., chair of the Committee of Hispanic Psychiatrists; Harvey Ruben, M.D., a consultant and former chair of the Joint Commission on Public Affairs; and Winston Shen, M.D., chair of the Committee on International Education.
The committee is now completing a draft of a new job description for the position and is expected to present the draft to the Board at its meeting in June. Candidates will be interviewed during the summer.
Campbell is the newspaper's first psychiatrist editor in chief, appointed by the Board in 1982. In that time he has overseen numerous innovations to the newspaper resulting in more timely publication of news, a colorful "reader-friendly" format, and significant cost savings for APA. When Campbell first became editor in chief, production still involved the preparation of labor-intensive mechanicals that consumed yards of typeset galleys. The newspaper is now composed almost entirely on computer terminals.
In addition to editor in chief of Psychiatric News, Campbell has served APA and psychiatry in many capacities. He is currently chair of the Corporation for the Advancement of Psychiatry, a consultant to APA's Committee on Standards and Survey Procedures, and vice president of the APA Lifers. Among the elected offices he has held are vice president and speaker of the Assembly. He is editor of the Psychiatric Dictionary and has long been active in the development of the International Classification of Diseases and other international endeavors. He has also held numerous positions on the district branch and Area levels.
(Psychiatric News, May 16, 1997)