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chat a minute. Although we did not come to a meeting of minds about the representation issues, I do be-
lieve we both walked away feeling less adversarial than if the meeting had just been virtual and we had
left the meeting without that contact. I hope as we continue to take advantage of virtual technology, we
are able to find the right balance between virtual and in-person communications.

I will be continuing to represent you as your incoming Area 6 Trustee. Please feel free to contact me if
you have concerns around issues that affect organized psychiatry and organized medicine. I am looking
forward to keeping communication open during the next three years. My first Board meeting will be in
July in Washington D.C. (another in person meeting!), so I assume you may next hear from me shortly
after that.

May 2022 Assembly Action Papers

The action papers from the May 2022 Assembly meeting are listed below. Please click on the item

number to view the action paper. To receive a report (or reports) submitted for the May Assembly

meeting, please contact Association Governance at apagov@psych.org.
Item Number Action Paper Title

2022A1 12.A Bolstering Services for Substance Use Disorders in Incarcerated Persons [APPROVED]

2022A1 12.B Improved Awareness of the Impact of Psychiatric Diagnoses and Treatments on Mili-
tary Members [APPROVED]
2022A1 12.C Calling for a Curriculum on Climate and Mental Health [APPROVED]

2022A1 12.D Evaluating the Greenhouse Gas Pollution from Specific Psychiatric Practices [FAILED]
2022A1 12.E Strengthening Equivalent Pathways for Maintaining Board Certification [APPROVED]

2022A1 12.F Enhancing the Learning Experience about Jail and Prison Psychiatry in General Psy-
chiatry Residency Programs [APPROVED]
2022A1 12.G Establishment of an Assembly Committee on Social Determinants of Mental Health

[APPROVED]

20221 12.H Anti-Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Discrimination and Media
Representation of AAPI Communities [APPROVED]

2022A1 12.I Funding of the APA’s Assembly Representatives [FAILED]

2022A1 12.J Restructuring the Assembly Meetings [FAILED]
2021A2 12.P Old Business: Improving the Balance of Area Representation in the Assembly

2022A1 14.A New Business: Establishment of a Work Group to Formulate an American Psychiatric
Association Response to Concerns About Potential Negative Consequences of
"Medicare Advantage" Programs for Patients with 2 Mental Illnesses [APPROVED]

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