transactions
Fall 2016
The Newsletter of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society A Chapter of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society
Richard F. Limoges, MD, DLFAPA, DFASAM President richard.limoges@verizon.net Tahir Maqsood, MD, MS, FAPA President-Elect tmaqsood@yahoo.com Camille I. Paglia, MD, JD Vice President camillepaglia@comcast.net Pietro Miazzo, MD Treasurer miazzop@gmail.com Illia Nikhinson, MD Secretary Inikhinson@nphs.com Kenneth J. Weiss, MD, DLFAPA Immediate Past President kweiss@comcast.net Rajnish Mago, MD Editor mago@simpleandpractical.com Wendy Zimmerman Executive Director Administrative Office 777 East Park Drive PO Box 8820 Harrisburg, PA 17105-8820 Toll free: (888) 723-2501 Fax: (717) 558-7841 Email: philapsych@pamedsoc.org Website: www.papsych.org
transactions, the newsletter of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, is published two times per year, with Spring and Fall issues. Editor: Rajnish Mago, MD Staff Editor: Megan Jones Articles published in the newsletter may be published in other APA district branch newsletters without permission. Attribution is requested and appreciated. All other rights reserved. transactions welcomes comments and opinions from the membership. Address correspondence to: Newsletter Editor, Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, P.O. Box 8820, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8820. Copyright ©2016. Philadelphia Psychiatric Society.
President’s Message By Richard Limoges, MD, DLFAPA, DFASAM I am very honored to be your President for this year. This is the 107th year of existence for the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, the largest chapter in Pennsylvania. Only two “city” societies are older: New York and Detroit. As this year’s President, I welcome the President-Elect of the APA, Maria Oquendo, MD, to Philadelphia as the new Chair of the Department of Psychiatry of the Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. This year the Benjamin Rush Gala and Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, November 4, 2016. As the celebration returns to Philadelphia, it will be held on board the Moshulu, a four-masted barque moored at Penn’s Landing, where Dr. Rush lived and practiced and made an enduring contribution to the young nation in many ways. Be sure to mark your calendar for a very special evening featuring cocktails, a seated dinner, and (if you wish) dancing to a DJ! During my time in office, there are three matters I want to address. They are: 1. Strengthening the participation of Residents in our Society, because they are the future, and very soon this Society will belong to them. We must encourage meaningful participation at the training level
to be a more effective voice of psychiatry. To that end I have formed a new Committee of Residents, which has recently convened for the first time and has already made significant contributions. 2. Develop and identify more useful and available ways to navigate the increasingly complex tasks being imposed upon the day-to-day practice of psychiatry, especially those of us who are in solo private practice. I am asking the Private Practice Committee to begin this effort, which I believe will be ongoing as practice becomes more complex. 3. Develop a way for gay and lesbian patients and psychiatrists to find each other easily, and to find ways to support our LGBTQ colleagues who may still be living in fear and shame, a legacy from the not-toodistant past. When a person asks me for a referral to a gay or lesbian psychiatrist, I am surprised that I know only very few, most of whom are in administrative posts and not in private practice. To return to my first concern, the Society is encouraging more residents to participate in the Society. The new Residents’ Committee agreed that they would benefit from a medium, open to all the psychiatry residents in the five continued on page 24