Dear AAGP member,
As a Member of AAGP, I ask that you support me for APA President-elect. I have a long record of supporting the need of allied organizations being part of APA governance.
In the late 1980s, I began the effort, with considerable help from Carolyn Robinowitz and Paul Fink, to have the APA include major subspecialty organizations in APA’s governance. I want to see AAGP contribute to the directions and policies of the APA.
IF I am elected President-elect:
1. AAGP, not I, will decide who fills the vacancies within the Council on Aging.
2. AAGP will be encouraged to select corresponding members of other components, such as the Council on Psychiatry and Law.
3. I will encourage the Assembly to give AAGP a role in the Assembly.
4. I will encourage the APA to turn to AAGP to explore the feasibility to AAGP being the author that updates the Practice Guidelines on dementias.
I will continue to champion the role of AAGP within the APA by strengthening the role AAGP plays in our profession via the APA.
The APA must become more of a representative democracy, and if elected President-elect, I will ask that AAGP help me achieve that goal.
For a biographical sketch: http://rogerpeele.com/resume.asp
