Circular Letter #661

FALL 2022 PRE-MEETING

America’s Think Tank for Mental Health

www.ourgap.org

DATES OF FUTURE GAP MEETINGS: 2023 April 20–22 November 9–11 2024 April 4–6 November 14–16

CIRCULAR LETTER #661

Message from the President Greetings to all, Hope everyone enjoyed a pleasant summer. After nearly four decades in GAP, I know when summer ends it’s time to start thinking about the Fall GAP meeting. This year’s meeting will be November 17-19, 2022, at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. It’s shaping up to be a great meeting with the Fellows’ plenary and the GAP strategic retreat in addition to our Committee and leadership meetings. All but three Committees are meeting in person at the November meeting. Please get your registration forms into Frances as soon as possible.

GAP FELLOWSHIP GAP OFFICERS: President Calvin R. Sumner, M.D. docsumner@gmail.com President Elect Robert P. Roca, M.D. rroca2@jhmi.edu Secretary Sy A. Saeed, M.D. saeeds@ecu.edu Treasurer Gail E. Robinson, M.D. gail.robinson@utoronto.ca

The GAP Fellowship will take center stage Friday at 5:30 p.m. as our current group of Fellows finish their two-year tenure. The Fellows’ plenary will explore the role of psychedelics in psychiatry with reviews of the history of psychedelics in medicine, including prominent controversies, and summarization of the evidence for their use in modern psychiatric practice. This group of Fellows persevered through the disruption of the pandemic to come together and create a cohesive, informative final product.

You won’t want to miss it.

Just as we’re bidding farewell to one group of Fellows, it’s time for Lorraine Lothwell and the Fellowship Committee to begin the selection process for our next Fellows.

Of course, many of our Fellows don’t really leave as they continue on the path to membership. Applications for the GAP Fellowship are up significantly this year, and the great quality of applicants bodes well for another outstanding group of Fellows in 2023. Plans are for the Fellowship to expand from 12 to 14 Fellows in 2023 when all the positions are fully underwritten by the Fellowship investment fund established with contributions from our generous GAP donors.

STRATEGIC RETREAT A special event at this Fall’s meeting will be a retreat for GAP leadership and interested members titled “Reimagining GAP” to discuss the direction and future of the organization. The retreat will be in addition to our usual schedule of meetings and activities and will be held on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with lunch provided.

Participants will be able to attend in person or by zoom. Since its birth 75 years ago GAP has paused periodically to consider its relevance and value. Our current times

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present new challenges and new opportunities. The roles of psychiatry in society are constantly changing and serious issues in our world invite and demand our voice as psychiatrists. At least in part, meeting the challenges of the global pandemic has led us to reconsider the efficiency and effectiveness of all our professional activities.

Mary Barber will serve as facilitator for the “Reimagining GAP” retreat with the focus on open discussion of the issues relevant to optimization of GAP’s direction and future. The heart of the meeting will focus on proposing a roadmap for GAP that will best meet our outward-facing and inward-facing missions in 2023 and beyond. From that general discussion, we’ll have a chance to drill down into 3–5 of the major themes/topics in breakout groups.

The entire group will reconvene after lunch to share the small group discussions, summarize, and recommend a roadmap for the future. Look forward to everyone’s contribution to this important discussion.

A VISION FOR GAP In closing, I’ll leave you with a bit of history I think you will find interesting as we plot a course of relevance and value for the GAP of the future.

“It [GAP] must be progressive. It must be devoted and willing to spend many personal hours for the advancement of psychiatry. The size will determine its cohesiveness, flexibility, and mobility It needs to be militant so that it may tackle problems of the day. It must be small enough to mobilize quickly and to act promptly. It must be willing to pioneer; to investigate and take action on the ‘neglected’ areas concerned with psychiatry; to deal aggressively with the ‘hot potatoes’. Its membership must not only be willing to undertake the difficult, but they must be willing to sacrifice in time and money and energy to accomplish these aims.” (1948) See you in Old Greenwich.

All the best, Calvin R. Sumner, MD, MA, LMAPA P.S. Below and on page 4 are a few GAP “Fast Facts” and Membership Information that Frances and I put together.

GAP FAST FACTS • GAP was “born” the night of May 26,1946 in a Chicago hotel room • First GAP report was September 15, 1947, on electroconvulsive therapy • Current GAP membership is 215 active members and 70 contributing members, nearly the same number of members as in 1959 • Malkah Notman is our senior current member with 63 years of GAP membership • About half of current members have been in GAP less than 10 years • GAP members come from 33 states, D.C., and 3 OUS countries • 90% of GAP members are current on their 2022 dues • GAP dues in 1957 were $150, equivalent to $1,580 in 2022 money • GAP dues have not increased since 2006 when they were set at $995 per year, equivalent to $1,562 in 2022 money (as of 1/1/2022) • Annual GAP operating budget is ~$300,000 (before 2022 inflation) • Total of GAP investment fund is $960,000 as of the end of Q3 2022, down over 15% since the end of 2021 • $750,000 of total GAP investments are restricted for designated purposes at the request of donors (Fellowship, non-psychiatrist consultants, guests, etc.)

• GAP has $120,000 in a checking account to cover the balance of operating expenses through the end of Q4 2022

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FALL 2022 MEETING SCHEDULE 151ST MEETING OF GROUP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PSYCHIATRY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 10:00 a.m. GAP Office Opens Laddins Rock 10:00 a.m. Finance Committee Meeting Byram Shore Room

9:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break Noon

3:00 p.m.

Board of Directors Meeting Mead ABC Room Committee Meeting: Psychopathology Byram Shore Room

Luncheon Regency ABCG Room Steering Committee Meeting Regency D

12:00 p.m. Publications Board New London AB Room 2:00 p.m.

Committee Meetings see page 4

Fellows Meeting Condes 2:00 p.m.

Committee Meetings see page 4

3:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

5:00 p.m.

Juice Break

4:00 p.m.

Fellows Meeting with Selection Committee Winthrop AB Room

5:30 p.m.

Plenary Session: GAP Fellows “An Overview of Psychedelics in Psychiatry”

4:30 p.m.

Fellowship Selection Committee Stonington Room

6:30 p.m.

Cocktail Reception Regency Ballroom Foyer

5:30 p.m.

Reception of the Board of Directors with Fellows Condes Room

7:30 p.m.

Dinner Regency ABCG Room

9:00 p.m.

Hospitality Regency Ballroom Foyer

6:30 p.m.

Fellows Dinner Winthrop AB Room

7:00 p.m.

Committee Meetings: Psychopathology Byram Shore Room

8:30 a.m.

7:30 a.m.

Steering Committee Breakfast Meeting Regency D

Psychiatry & Community Mead A Room

Fellows Breakfast Meeting Condes Room

Research Cos Cob Room

Breakfast Regency ABCG 8:30 a.m.

Retreat: “Reimagining GAP” Riverside Room Breakouts: Mead A, B, and C

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Noon

Breakfast Regency ABCG Room

Lunch Winfield’s—Lobby

1:00 p.m.

General Membership Meeting Regency ABCG Room

Wrap-Up Riverside Room

2:30 p.m.

Adjourn

8:00– Welcome Reception 11:00 p.m. Winfield’s

7:30 a.m.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19

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FALL 2022 COMMITTEE MEETINGS ADDICTIONS________________________ Guest Room 2141 ADMINISTRATION & LEADERSHIP_____ Guest Room 2143 ADOLESCENCE_____________________ Guest Room 2145 AGING___________________________ New London A Room ARTS & HUMANITIES_____________________ Putnam Room CHILD PSYCHIATRY___________________ Ferris Boardroom

PLANNING, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS_________________ Stonington Room PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS_____________________ Not meeting in Person PSYCHIATRY AND THE COMMUNITY______Mead A Room PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW______________Mead B Room

CLIMATE COMMITTEE________________ Guest Room 2007

PSYCHIATRY AND THE MEDIA___________ Milbrook Room

COLLEGE STUDENT__________________________ Mead C

PSYCHIATRY AND RELIGION_________ Guest Room 2005

CONSULTATION LIAISON PSYCHIATRY_____________ New London B Room

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY_______________ Byram Shore Room

CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY_____________ Guest Room 2139

PSYCHOTHERAPY_____________________ Winthrop Room

DISASTERS, TRAUMA AND GLOBAL HEALTH _______________ Belle Haven Room

RESEARCH____________________________ Cos Cob Room

GENDER ISSUES AND MENTAL HEALTH__ Sheffield Room LGBTQ+_____________________________ Regency F Room MEDICAL EDUCATION________________ Guest Room 2001

PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY___________ Guest Room 2004

SOCIAL JUSTICE____________________ Guest Room 2002 SYSTEMS INNOVATION & TRANSFORMATION_________________ Regency E Room

MILITARY & VETERANS COMMITTEE____ Stanwich Room

TERRORISM/POLITICAL VIOLENCE_______________________ Not meeting in person

NEUROPSYCHIATRY______________ Not meeting in person

WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS________ Winthrop A Room

GAP MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION YEARS IN GAP:

# OF MEMBERS:

0–5_____________ 68 6–10_____________ 65 11–15_____________ 53 16–20_____________31 21–25_____________16 26–30 _____________16 31–35 _____________11 36–40______________7 41–45______________8 46–50______________6 51-55_______________1 55-60______________0 61-65_______________1 G r o u p fo r t h e A d va n c e m e n t o f P syc h i a t r y

# BY STATE OR COUNTRY

New York_______________ 77

Arizona__________________ 4 California_______________ 21 Colorado________________ 3 Connecticut _____________ 22 Florida___________________ 5 Georgia__________________ 3 Illinois___________________ 5 Iowa____________________ 1 Kentucky_________________ 1 Louisiana________________ 1 Maine___________________ 1 Maryland________________ 18 Massachusetts___________ 21 Michigan_________________ 3 Minnesota________________ 2 Missouri_________________ 5 Nevada__________________ 1 New Hampshire___________ 1 New Jersey_______________ 7

North Carolina____________ 4

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Ohio____________________ 9 Oklahoma________________ 1 Oregon__________________ 3 Pennsylvania_____________ 20 Rhode Island _____________ 1 South Carolina____________ 5 Tennessee_______________ 2 Texas __________________ 10 Vermont_________________ 1 Virginia__________________ 8 West Virginia_____________ 1 Wisconsin________________ 3 Washington, DC__________ 5 Canada__________________ 4 Netherlands______________ 1 Switzerland_______________ 1 2 0 2 2 C i r c u l a r L e t te r # 6 61