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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs)

and Email Discussion Groups (listservs)

How to Propose a New SIG

Many APM members are especially interested in one or more aspects of psychosomatic medicine. We are pleased to sponsor 16 special interest groups which bring together professionals to discuss clinical care, teaching, and research in subspecialty areas. For many years, SIGs have provided vital networking, mentoring and collaborative support to hundreds of our members. SIGs meet at the annual meeting and also throughout the year via listserv, teleconferencing, and email.

All APM members are welcome to join individual SIGs or to attend their meetings. To join a SIG, contact the chair of the group. Current SIGs and their chairs (linked to their emails) are listed below. Contact information for the chairs is also available in the online member directory.

APM Special Interest Groups and Chairs

Bioethics

Mary Ann Cohen, MD, FAPM
Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, FAPM

Cardiovascular Psychiatry web page

Hochang Benjamin Lee, MD, FAPM

Community-Based Psychosomatic Physician Practice Issues

Linda M. Peterson, MD, FAPM

Critical Care

Dimitry S. Davydow, MD

Early Career Psychiatrists

Patrick Aquino, MD
Leeza Park, MD

Emergency Psychiatry

Seth M. Powsner, MD, FAPM

HIV/AIDS Psychiatry web page

Mary Ann Cohen, MD, FAPM
Kelly L. Cozza, MD, FAPM

International Relations

Michael C. Sharpe, MD, FAPM

Medicine & Psychiatry

Thomas W. Heinrich, MD, FAPM

Neuropsychiatry

Yonas E. Geda, MD

Palliative Care

Harold W. Goforth, MD, FAPM

Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine

Maryland Pao, MD, FAPM
Susan B. Turkel, MD, FAPM

Psychotherapeutic Approaches to the Medically Ill

Harold Bronheim, MD, FAPM
Craig Lichtman, MD, MBA

Telepsychiatry

Terry Rabinowitz, MD, FAPM

Transplant Psychiatry web page

Andrea DiMartini, MD, FAPM

Women's Health

Nehama Dresner, MD, FAPM

If you are interested in forming a new SIG, please:
1. Read the APM Policy on SIGs.
2. Fill out and submit the online SIG Request Form.

EMAIL DISCUSSION GROUPS (listservs)

Two groups that are not formally SIGs have an email discussion forum (listserv):

C-L/PM Fellowship Directors
C-L/PM Fellows in Training

APM has been using Google Groups as the instrument for the discussion forums (or listservs) for some of SIGs and for the above two groups. All APM Google Groups have been set up so that only a member of a particular group (listserv) can post messages to that group, and all archive message boards are private — only members of a group who also have a free Google Account can view that group's archive. (Note that a Google e-mail account, or gmail, is not necessary. The e-mail address used for membership in the group must be the same as the e-mail address used for the Google Account. The password you choose for your Google Account is the password to view the archive.)

C-L/PM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Members: post a message by sending an email to:
fellowship-directors@googlegroups.com

Archived message board (only group members who also have a Google Account can view):
http://groups.google.com/group/fellowship-directors
(opens in new browser window)

To join this group:
Send an email to forum-admin at apm dot org.

C-L/PM FELLOWS in Training

Members: post a message by sending an email to:
clfellows@googlegroups.com

Archived message board (only group members who also have a Google Account can view):
http://groups.google.com/group/clfellows
(opens in new browser window)

To join this group:
Send an email to moderator Leeza Park, MD.

Related materials:
Common Application Form for PM Fellowship
Suggestions for PM Fellowship Candidates (revised 2010 by Jeanne Lackamp, MD
and Philip Bialer, MD, FAPM)

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