Assembly Election

Psychiatrists From Developing Countries to Attend APA Annaul Meeting as Fellows

For the first time, APA has awarded five fellowships to young psychiatrists from developing countries to attend APA's annual meeting. A subcommittee of the Council on International Affairs, consisting of Pedro Ruiz, M.D., Jeffrey Geller, M.D., and Dan Monti, M.D., made the final selections, whose names appear below.

In reviewing the applications, the committee took into account each candidate's age, work experience inside home country, and prior international experience; the financial situation of the home country; and whether the home country had been represented before at APA annual meetings.

The fellowships are intended to provide an international educational opportunity to young psychiatrists who have been without such opportunities in the past and to increase the geographical mixture of those attending APA's annual meeting.

Each nominee had to be supported by a senior psychiatrist or psychiatric association in the home country. Self-nominated psychiatrists were asked to supply a letter of support from one of these sources.

The committee received nominations from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Macedonia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe.

Those chosen are as follows:

• Dr. Vuksan Kola of Tirana, Albania, is a teacher in the School of Medicine of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students in Tirana.


• Dr. Fouad Ismailov of Baku, Azerbaijan, is head of the department in the Psychiatric Hospital No. 2 in Baku and is on the editorial board of the Azerbaijan Journal of Psychiatry.


• Dr. Haddis Solomon of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is the youngest of 11 psychiatrists in Ethiopia. He works at the only psychiatric hospital in Addis Ababa, teaching medical students and psychiatric nurses; planning mental health services for the country; supervising psychiatric nurses in regional hospitals; and conducting research.


• Dr. Athanase Hagengimana of Kigali, Rwanda, is one of only two psychiatrists in the country. He treats patients and teaches in the medical school and other health institutions.


• Dr. Magzumova Shahnoza Shah-zadeyevna of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is an assistant in the psychiatric department and psychiatric therapy department of the Tashkent Institute of Improvement of Doctors. She is also an active member in the Association of Psychiatrists of Uzbekistan.