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Roster of MPS Committees

Constitutional Committees

Constitution and Bylaws

Chair, Bill Clapp, MD

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.

Ethics Committee

Chair, Mary Beth Lardizabal, DO

Charge: the district branch arm of the APA’s Ethics Committee. Reviews cases involving MPS members. Responsible for educating the membership regarding ethical practice.

Nominating Committee

Chair, Sheila Specker, MD

Charge: identifies officer candidates for review and approval by Council and election by membership. 

Membership/Fellowship Committee

Chair, Bob Jones, MD

Charge: leads efforts to recruit, maintain and serve membership. Provides oversight and support for DF process and outreach to member interest groups.

Program Committee

Chair, OPEN

Charge: identify educational needs, plan and produce programming to serve the needs of the membership and sustain the organization.

Standing Committees

Legislative Committee

Chair, Michael Trangle, MD

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.

Women Psychiatrists Committee

Chair, Karen Dickson, MD

Charge: Supports women psychiatrists in Minnesota.

Early Career Psychiatrists

Chair, Laura Pientka, DO

Charge: To represent the needs of early career psychiatrists.

Awards/Research Committee

Chair, John Vuchetich, MD

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.

Communications Committee

Chair, Chinmoy Gulrajani, MD

Charge: To advance MPS messaging to serve and inform members and the public about psychiatry via social media and other avenues.

Newsletter Committee

Co-editor, Matt Kruse, MD

Co-Editor Jimmy Wang, MD

Charge: To publish Ideas of Reference, the MPS bi-monthly newsletter.



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