About SPCAP

The purpose of the SPCAP is to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas among the child and adolescent psychiatry program directors in medical schools in the United States and elsewhere for the purposes of:

Enhancing the growth and development of child and adolescent psychiatry as a discipline;
Strengthening graduate and postgraduate medical education, patient care and research in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry; and
Providing appropriate liaison between academic child and adolescent psychiatry as represented by the membership and administrative persons and organizations in medical education (e.g., departments of psychiatry, medical school deans, specialty boards), government, research, and health care delivery to forward our objectives.

SPCAP Executive Committee

The SPCAP Executive Committee is comprised of six officers. The Committee is the governing body of SPCAP. Its charter is to establish the policies of the SPCAP and oversee its administration.

OFFICERS
	Steven P. Cuffe , M.D., President
	Sandra Sexson, M.D., President-Elect
	Paramjit T. Joshi, M.D., Immediate Past-President
	Efrain Bleiberg , M.D., Secretary-Treasurer
	A. Jack Naftel, M.D., Program Chair
	Ellen Sholevar , M.D., Membership Chair
	STAFF
	Earl Magee, Administrator

SPCAP Committees

The SPCAP has four standing committees whose mission is to address the pressing issues facing child and adolescent psychiatry program directors. Specifically, these committees have the following objectives:

Facilitate a committee meeting to be held during the SPCAP Annual Meeting to discuss committee issues;
Create a panel presentation for the annual meeting;
Represent the SPCAP on issues related to the committee.


Committee		Co-Chairs
Administration		Victor Fornari, M.D. and Michael Naylor, M.D.
Clinical		Bela Sood, M.D. and Douglas Robbins, M.D.
Research		Jim Hudziak, M.D. and Honorary Co-Chair Richard Todd, M.D.
Training and Education		David DeMaso, M.D. and Carl Feinstein, M.D.

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For more information, please contact Earl Magee, (202) 966-7300, ext. 115, emagee@aacap.org.