Mark Rapaport, M.D., selected as APA's next president-elect

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) members have chosen Mark Rapaport, M.D., as the medical society's next president-elect, according to an APA news release. Rapaport is the founding CEO, emeritus, of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah, the William H. and Edna D. Stimson Presidential Endowed Chair, and professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. Rapaport has published more than 200 peer-reviewed research papers and has had peer-reviewed research funding since 1992. His work has focused on the interactions between the brain and the immune system as well as clinical psychopharmacology and complementary medicine. He has been a mentor to hundreds of trainees through the New Investigator Program that he started for the meeting which is now the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology annual meeting. Rapaport's term as president-elect of the APA will begin this May at the conclusion of the APA Annual Meeting, when current President-Elect Theresa Miskimen-Rivera, M.D. begins her one-year term as president.