Biographies: American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Mental Health Month Spokespersons

Carolyn Robinowitz, M.D.
APA Secretary-Treasurer and 2006 President-Elect

Carolyn B. Robinowitz, M.D., is the secretary-treasurer of the American Psychiatric Association and was recently voted its president-elect. She is a former dean of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, where she also served as associate dean for students and professor of psychiatry. Prior to her work at Georgetown, she was the senior deputy medical director and chief operating officer of the American Psychiatric Association. She has held many national leadership roles including presidencies of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American College of Psychiatrists, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and the Association for Academic Psychiatry.

The recipient of an NIMH career-development award, she is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and has received considerable recognition and numerous awards for her contributions to medical education, psychiatry and health policy, and women in the professions. A clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine and an elected member of the American Medical Association’s Council on Scientific Affairs, she is in the clinical practice of general, child and adolescent psychiatry as well as a consultant in program development, medical education and evaluation.

Dr. Robinowitz is a graduate of Wellesley College and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Her pediatric and general psychiatry training took place at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and she completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Nada Stotland, M.D., M.P.H.
APA Vice President

Nada Stotland, M.D., M.P.H, received her undergraduate, medical and residency education at the University of Chicago, completed psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and earned a Master of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of over 70 articles and chapters and the author or editor of 7 books. Her subspecialty interest is in women's mental health, and she holds professorships in the departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology at Rush Medical College in Chicago.

Dr. Stotland has served as the director of psychiatric education and the director of psychiatric consultation at the University of Chicago and as chief medical officer of the Illinois Department of Mental Health.

Dr. Stotland’s past elected positions include: president of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology and of the Association of Women Psychiatrists. Within the American Psychiatric Association, she has been elected speaker of the Assembly, secretary, and vice-president, which position she currently holds. She and her husband Harold have four adult daughters--when they were young, Dr. Stotland spent 8 years at home full-time.

Donna Norris, M.D.
APA Secretary-Treasurer-Elect

Donna Marie Norris, M.D., is a full-time practitioner of child, adolescent, adult and forensic psychiatry in Wellesley, Mass., and an expert consultant to the Probate & Family Courts in Massachusetts. She is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Beth Israel/Deaconess Hospital, and is on the medical staff of the Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She is co-author of articles in the areas of cross-cultural adoption, African American children and professional boundaries.

Dr. Norris’s professional experience includes senior psychiatrist of the Boston Juvenile Court Clinic, medical director of the Family Services Association of Greater Boston and medical director of Parents’ and Children’s Services. She served as a gubernatorial appointment to the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, the University of Lowell, and recently, the Children’s Trust Fund, an $18 million fund chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature to provide family-centered intensive home services for all first time parents under 20 years old and to raise public awareness about child abuse prevention.

A graduate of Fisk University and the Ohio State University College of Medicine, she received her general psychiatric training at Boston University and child fellowship training at the Judge Baker Guidance Center and Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Norris is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a fellow of the American College of Psychiatry and recipient of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society’s Outstanding Psychiatrist’s Award for the Advancement of the Profession (2001).

She is on the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association and is secretary-treasurer-elect.

James H. Scully Jr., M.D.
APA CEO and Medical Director

James H. Scully Jr., M.D., became medical director of the American Psychiatric Association in 2003. He is responsible for overseeing APA’s 250 full-time staff and its three corporate subsidiaries: the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, the American Psychiatric Foundation, and American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Dr. Scully previously held other staff leadership posts in the association and has been an APA member since 1976.

Prior to assuming his current APA position, Dr. Scully served as the Alexander Donald Professor and chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, S.C., from 1996 to 2002. Additionally, he has served as president of the Education Trust of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Scully served as an interim director of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. He has served in the Navy and on boards of a variety of medical organizations.

Dr. Scully is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Leadership Award for Best Chairman of a Department of Psychiatry; Lowenbach Visiting Professor at Duke University School of Medicine; and the University of Colorado’s Thomas Jefferson Award for outstanding achievement. In 1992, psychiatry residents at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center established the Jay Scully, M.D., Award for The Outstanding Supervisor, Department of Psychiatry. In 2003, Dr. Scully received an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Colorado and has delivered more than 80 presentations and has authored more than 50 professional papers.

Dr. Scully received a B.A. degree in philosophy from Georgetown University, and his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine. He trained in psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical Center.

Mimi Ryans (Patient Story Testimonial)
Mother of a Son with ADHD

Mimi Ryans is a 39-year-old married mother of three children under the age of 5. Her oldest son was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in August 2005 after a neuropsychological evaluation was performed at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Md. Since her son’s diagnosis, Mrs. Ryans has become very active with Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), an organization that provides resources and support to families of children and adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and ADHD. Mrs. Ryans is pursuing a Master of Social Work degree at Howard University and will complete her studies in May 2006. She hopes to become an advocate for children and adolescents with mental illnesses, who are also part of the child welfare system.

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