The professional organization for psychiatry
Promoting the Highest Quality of Mental Health Care through Education, Advocacy, and Advancing and Representing the Profession of Psychiatry.
Arizona Psychiatric Society: Professional Organization for Psychiatry in Arizona
The Arizona Psychiatric Society (APS) is a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association, a medical specialty society recognized worldwide. The objectives of the Arizona Psychiatric Society are to continuously improve the ability of its members to provide quality psychiatric services and access to care to persons in need and their families. The Society strives to promote the welfare of all those with mental illness and to foster the medically-based principles of psychiatry.
APS is the professional association in the state of Arizona that focuses exclusively on the needs of physicians who specialize in psychiatry. APS addresses all aspects of psychiatric care and includes public, academic and private practice psychiatrists, as well as psychiatric residents. Take the important step to protecting your profession and advocating for psychiatry and your patients and join or renew today.
APS is the professional association in the state of Arizona that focuses exclusively on the needs of physicians who specialize in psychiatry. APS addresses all aspects of psychiatric care and includes public, academic and private practice psychiatrists, as well as psychiatric residents. Take the important step to protecting your profession and advocating for psychiatry and your patients and join or renew today.
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"I am honored and humbled to be the new president of the Arizona Psychiatry Society. Over the coming year I wish to continue to build on our mission of promoting the highest quality of mental health care through education, advocacy, and fostering principles of psychiatry, towards a vision that all Arizonans will have access to quality mental health care and prevention as a result of the successful advocacy and physician leadership of the Arizona Psychiatric Society. My top priorities for the year ahead include ensuring access to mental health care for Arizonians. This means we will continue to work with stakeholders to ensure people in Arizona can maintain health care coverage, have parity in access to mental health care, have availability of collaborative or integrated care models and have available specialty mental health care when needed.
Having a community of support while growing our professional skills is so important to our own well-being and can help prevent burn out. With this in mind, we will provide opportunities for psychiatrists to connect with each other, find a sense of community while also providing on-going education and CME opportunities.
Health care is a team sport, and we value the unique contributions and skills of each profession that contributes to great care. We have however seen some scope of work changes and creep over the recent years that puts high quality safe care for Arizonians at risk. We will work to mitigate any risk to high quality safe care. Most importantly, I and the other executive officers of APS are proud representatives of Arizona psychiatrists. My hope is to continue to hear what your priorities and concerns are so we can continue to represent your needs. My hope is also that you will reach out to share your voice, connect and contribute to the work APS does."
"We know the months ahead will hold many challenges and opportunities for psychiatry to be engaged in the issues. It is the society's goal to continue to promote the highest quality of mental health care through education, advocacy, and fostering principles of psychiatry, towards a vision that all Arizonans will have access to quality mental health care and prevention as a result of the successful advocacy and physician leadership of the Arizona Psychiatric Society. We invite you to contribute to the work of the Society, through your membership, and engage further by joining our committees, serving as a Chair or executive officer, and working collaboratively with fellow mental health stakeholder advocacy organizations. Together, we can work to make a difference for our profession and the patients for whom we provide care."
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Stephen Larry Mecham, DO, Past President, Arizona Psychiatric Society, 2022-2023
“I want to make a humble request for you to reach out with your ideas, your creativity, your passion, and your support. Because when we reach out through the Arizona Psychiatric Society, or in our communities, we can make our resilience and commitment stronger. Let us continue to share our calling, our challenges, and our successes together.”
Jasleen Chhatwal, MBBS, MD, Past President and DEI Committee Chair 2021-2022