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HEALTHY & PEACEFUL 2015 from HAPA
Greetings for 2015 from the Executive Committee of HAPA
As we are welcoming the NEW YEAR, we at HAPA are wishing you & your family a HEALTHY & PROSPEROUS 2015.
We also wish to invite you to the 2015 16th HAPA Annual Meeting in Toronto Canada in connection with the APA Annual meeting and ask for your support by renewing your membership or by becoming a new member by visiting our HAPA website: www.hellenic-psych.org
Join us on Tuesday May 19th 2015 for the 16th HAPA Annual meeting in Toronto, Canada. This year’s HAPA presentation is featuring Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Toronto University Aristotle Voineskos, MD, a rising star Canadian Psychiatric researcher, see attached HAPA announcement. The HAPA meetings are also opportunities for good old Greek kefi and food at a local restaurant, (Dutch treat) at the conclusion our business and educational parts of the program.
The 2014 15th HAPA Annual meeting in NYC was a major success with a number of new members joining us, an outstanding presentation by our very own Past HAPA President, Professor Georgios Petrides on the Brain Stimulation and a very special dinner at a Greek restaurant. You can see pictures of our 2014 meeting on the HAPA website.
For over 16 years, HAPA has been providing a forum where the academic, clinical and research work by Hellenic psychiatrists from the US, Greece and the Hellenic Diaspora can be shared and featured. Our meetings are educational, inspirational and promote networking. All of this and more can only be accomplished with YOU joining us. We need you to help us complete work now in progress, which includes establishing the HAPA Excellence in Psychiatric Education Award and the HAPA Foundation.
We live in a globalized world community. Your participation is essential to keep HAPA growing and fulfilling vitally needed functions for the Hellenic community both here, in Greece and globally. HAPA aims to mobilize the hidden power of the Hellenic community, known to be low keyed and publicity avoidant. The goal is to advance HAPA’s mission of linking Hellenic psychiatrists of the US with those from Greece and the Diaspora..
HAPA is fully dues dependent for its existence. The Executive Committee members, on a volunteer basis with NO paid staff, do all the work. Membership fees are the same since our founding. Pay your HAPA membership dues for 2015 on the HAPA website, (General Members $52.00, and Members-in-Training $27.00). We need you to renew. If not already a member, you can apply on the website by filling out the application & paying your dues.
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Join HAPA and become part of the growth of the only Hellenic psychiatric professional organization in the APA and the US. Contribute to HAPA and help us materialize our vision of HAPA as a link for the psychiatric community and as a resource for Hellenic communities in the US, Greece and Diaspora. YES together we can make a difference.
See you on Tuesday May 19th 2015 in Toronto, Canada at the HAPA meeting.
Maria T. Lymberis, MD, HAPA Founder & President maria@lymberis.com
Philip Candilis MD, HAPA President Elect pcandilis@hotmail.com
2014 Gary S. Nye Award Recipient Dr. Maria Lymberis
Dr. Lymberis was recently presented with the 2014 Gary S. Nye Award for Physician Health and Well-Being for her longstanding commitment to physician health in her local community and in the state of California, as well as her career-long contributions to medical ethics. The award was presented by the California Medical Association at the December 5th meeting in San Diego.
2014 Hygeia Award Recipient Dr. Arthur N. Pappas
HAPA is very proud to announce our Treasurer Dr. Arthur N. Pappas was honored with the 2014 Hygeia Award by the New England Hellenic Medical and Dental Society.
The Hygeia award is given to a healthcare professional who has had an exemplary career and has made considerable contributions to medicine or other allied health disciplines.
Dr. Papas is an adult psychiatrist in full time private practice with 45 years of experience treating patients, many of them Greek speaking, and teaching medical students and psychiatric residents. He has teaching appointments at Harvard Medical School and at Boston University School of Medicine, and has contributed to organized psychiatry by serving on several committees of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society…
For more information visit http://www.nehmds.org/
WHBA 3rd Summer School in Medical & Biosciences Research & Management
May 17-25, 2014 The World Hellenic Biomedical Association is organizing the 3rd WHBA summer school on Medical & Biosciences Research & Management, in Greece, in Oitilo, Mani, Greece. For more information, please check their website:
3rd Summer School in Medical & Biosciences Research & Management
May 17 – 25, 2014 – Itilo-Mani, Laconia, Greece
The Summer School in Biomedical Research & Management is an educational activity that the WHBA has established on an annual basis. The aim of this activity is to provide knowledge given by top-notch experts on the most advanced medical and biosciences research areas to two groups of participants:
1. Graduate and undergraduate students of medical and biosciences background.
2. Post-doctoral researchers and physicians in training (residents and clinical fellows).In addition, the Summer School in Biomedical Research & Management aims to familiarize the students with “actual life” situations that scientists from Academia or the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industry deal with on daily basis….Read more…
Meetings in Greece in 2014
For 2014 there are two very notable and important meetings coming up:
The first is the 22nd Panhellenic Congress of Psychiatry. This is the major scientific event of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association that occurs every two years. This year it is May 29th to June 6th 2014. Thankfully there is no conflict with the APA Annual meeting of May 3d to 7th 2014. One can now easily plan to attend both. The meeting will be the Porto Navarino Hotel in Messinia. This is a magnificent hotel in a beautiful area of Greece. Do take part in the Congress, get to know the region and enjoy a first class holiday with your Greek colleagues, participate in the scientific program and most crucially support the scientific community of Greece during these difficult economic. HAPA hopes to participate, if interested contact hellenicpsych.org@gmail.com for details.
The second event features Professor George Christodoulou,a founding member of HAPA and the Honorary President of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association is known internationally for his involvement in the leadership WPA and as a superb organizer of numerous highly successful psychiatric meetings in the Middle East, Eastern Europe & the Balkans. As the incoming President of the World Federation for Mental Health, WFMH, he is now organizing the International Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health which will be held in Athens October 9th to 11th 2014 at the Aegli Zappeiou in collaboration with the Hellenic Psychiatric Association. HAPA is hoping to participate in this meeting as well. This is a very good time to visit Greece and in particular Athens as the weather is good and there are less tourists. If interested to participate contact hellenicpsych.org@gmail.com for further details.
Stay tuned for more event & details about the meetings become available.