Inclusiveness is important to the APA. We want policies and procedures that allow all members who want to participate to be able to do so. At the same time, many voters want to know details about whoever they elect to the Presidency. Thus, the following:
Income:
Salary, 2008, $164,000 [plus about $30,000 in benefits], Montgomery County Maryland, government. Investments and retirements, 2007, $124,000. None from managed care or pharmaceutical companies.
Holdings: end of 2007, two homes [Maryland and Florida] and other holdings worth, 2007, about $1,355,000. None are managed care or pharmaceutical companies, nor have there been holdings in the past of managed care or pharmaceutical firms. No family members have substantial holdings in managed care or pharm firms.
Free meals, some lavish, from pharm firms at CME or other meetings: about a dozen/year.
Free samples from pharm firms: I am associated with eight indigent clinics in which physicians are encouraged to obtain free samples for their patients. It is a proactive approach in that we first ascertain which meds our pts need, then approach pharm firms for those meds. Also, my Action Paper on access to no-cost and low-cost meds was approved by the APA Assembly and Board of Trustees, and was taken to the AMA, whose actions led to the creation of Partnership for Prescription Assistance [PPA], a major central resource of millions of low-cost and no-cost/year.
Legal: No adverse malpractice decisions. No legal difficulties beyond traffic violations.
Ethics: No ethical complaints to any professional organizations. No complaints to any licensing boards.
Other disclosures of potential conflicts:
Co-author of APPI’s Clinical Manual of Supportive Psychotherapy. I have championed that psychotherapy.
My involvement in the development of DSM-III, DSM-IIIR, DSM-IV, and DSM-V has led to many grand round and other training opportunities [but not any money – I do not submit bills for grand rounds]]. While DSM and the APA are so intertwined with each other that it is hard to imagine a conflict, some who see recent DSMs as unfortunate might disagree.
Member of Board of American Association of Practicing Psychiatrists [AAPP]. This organization has been in the forefront of psychiatric organizations suing managed care companies. All of the money that I have been awarded, as a result of AAPP winning those suits, has gone back to AAPP to facilitate further suits.
