Maryland Psychiatric Society’s Annual Dinner

After receiving member input, the MPS Council voted on March 8th to award William Prescott, M.D.

With this my final opportunity to address the membership as your president, I find myself thinking of renew, reinvent and rejoice. Renew and recycle refer to the cycle of MPS leadership. As many of you who actually read this newsletter know, leadership in an elected position at the MPS is a series of terms that span several years. The tradition is that one moves from treasurer to president-elect to president and then to council chair. The democratic foundation of the MPS would accommodate an opposed election for any one of these positions, should there be a revolution; h

Its legislative season again. Every year hundreds of suits travel to Annapolis to engage and influence Maryland’s future. Some travel to defend or advocate for an issue of professional passion; others go to Annapolis to influence issues of community and self interest. They come to talk about family farm preservation, k-12 education, prisons, taxes, snow removal budgets and the Chesapeake Bay. They also come to influence healthcare, and they come to advocate for mental healthcare. 

2011 Spring Meeting of the Psychiatric Society of Virginia