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Table of Contents

President’s Message ~ Shana Levy, MD, DFAPA 2-3

In this Issue 4

Member Cover Photo Spotlight 5

It’s Time To Celebrate 6

Annual Meeting Recap 7-13

NCPS 2022-2023 Council Election Results 14

Adventures with Adversity Series - Navigating Multidisciplinary Team Environments ~ 15-16
Robin Bitner, MD

Musings — PTSD of History: Reflections on War in Ukraine ~ Yelena Zalkina, MD 18-19

CSAP—Legislation Update ~ Paul Yoder 21-23

APA Assembly Notes 23-25

In this Issue
By: Peter Forster, MD ~ Editor

Our spring edition of this newsletter celebrates the creativity of our members and our society. Once
again, our cover photo was submitted by an NCPS member. If you are interested in photography, please
send us a favorite photo of Northern California or NCPS. We also introduce a new section of the newslet-
ter “It’s Time to Celebrate” that will highlight the creative works of members of NCPS. Again, we rely on
you to let us know when you have, or a colleague of yours, has created something memorable, such as a
film or book. Please don’t be shy. We also cover the 61st Annual Meeting of NCPS which took place in
March in Monterey. Among the memorable presentations from that meeting were an ethics panel, sum-
marized by Cynthia He and J. Connor Barnhardt, and a panel on diversity, equity and inclusion which in-
cluded presentations by Francis Lu, Richa Bhatia and Rona Hu. In our continuing series “Adventures in Ad-
versity” Robin Bitner reflects on the joys and challenges of working in a multi-disciplinary team and how a
break from the position as Medical Director of a PHP/IOP allowed her to resume the role with a clearer

sense of how to balance work and life and how to creatively deal with her informal leadership role. We are
indebted to Dr. Yelena Zalkina, who writes about the experience of being a psychiatrist of Russian origin
in the Bay Area during the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, as part of our series on the personal experi-
ences that are such an important part of being a psychiatrist, “Musings… Thoughts from the Chair.” Final-
ly, Paul Yoder updates us on the Governor’s CARE Courts proposal, which is either an opportunity to re-
shape how involuntary treatment is delivered in California, or another creative way of cost shifting from
the state to county government, depending on who you talk to. We are well served by our lobbyists in
Sacramento, whose focus is on finding opportunities to improve psychiatric care.

We are in an unprecedented time.
One not experienced before.

Please share your thoughts, insights and experiences with your fellow
members, to be published in our next Psychiatric Physician issue.

CLICK HERE to submit.
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