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Roster of MPS Committees

Contact committee chairs or MPS Executive Director ​Linda Vukelich to join or for more information. All MPS members welcome!

Constitutional Committees

Constitution and Bylaws
Chair, Bill Clapp, MD JOIN
Charge: Review, and oversee any necessary MPS organizational documents updates to assure conformity to national documents
and to reflect current needs and structure of the MPS. JOIN

Ethics Committee
Chair, Mary Beth Lardizabal, DO, DFAPA  JOIN
Charge: the district branch arm of the APA’s Ethics Committee. Reviews cases involving MPS members.
Responsible for educating the membership regarding ethical practice. JOIN

Nominating Committee
Chair, Allison Holt, MD, FAPA  
JOIN
Charge: identifies officer candidates for review and approval by Council and election by membership. JOIN

Membership/Fellowship Committee
Chair, Helen Wood, MD, DFAPA (Acting)  
JOIN
Charge: leads efforts to recruit, maintain and serve membership. Provides oversight and support for DF process and outreach to member interest groups. JOIN

Program Committee
Chair, Sheila Specker, MD, DFAPA  JOIN
Charge: identify educational needs, plan and produce programming to serve the needs of the membership and sustain the organization.  JOIN

Standing Committees

Legislative Committee
Chair, Michael Trangle, MD, DLFAPA  JOIN
Charge: With the MPS lobbyist, keeps up-to-date on legislative issues, educates membership and represents the legislative, regulatory and advocacy needs of Minnesota psychiatrists, their practices, and their patients.  JOIN

Women Psychiatrists Committee
Chairs: Karen Dickson, MD, DLFAPA  JOIN
Charge: Supports women psychiatrists in Minnesota.  JOIN

Senior Psychiatrists
Chair, Bill Clapp, MD JOIN
Charge: Support connections and community among senior psychiatrists and their spouses/partners/significant others through social and educational programming. JOIN

Early Career Psychiatrists
Chair, Josh Stein, MD  JOIN
Charge: To represent the needs of early career psychiatrists.  JOIN

Awards/Research Committee
Chair, John Vuchetich, MD, DFAPA  JOIN
Charge: To work with Minnesota medical schools to identify, and honor outstanding medical students and to solicit nominations from the MPS members for MPS annual awards including the Paul Wellstone Advocacy Award, and Distinguished Service Awards.  JOIN

Communications Committee
Chair, Chinmoy Gulrajani, MD, DFAPA  JOIN
Charge: To advance MPS messaging to serve and inform members and the public about psychiatry via social media and other avenues.  JOIN

Newsletter Committee
Co-editors: Matt Kruse, MD; George Dawson, MD, DLFAPA 
JOIN 
Charge: To publish Ideas of Reference, the MPS bi-monthly newsletter. JOIN - Contributing writers needed. 


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