Advocacy Alert: Protect Critical NIH Research Funding

The Trump administration recently announced a new policy to cap facilities and administration costs associated with National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants at 15%. This cap could significantly hinder vital biomedical research across the country, including mental health and substance use disorder research. The courts have issued a pause on the administration’s plan, but your elected officials need to hear from you!

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Suicidal Characteristics Among Patients With Schizophrenia May Vary by Length of Illness

Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia less than a year before they died by suicide had fewer characteristics commonly associated with suicide risk, such as history of self-harm, and were more likely to have been in recent contact with mental health services.

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Virtual Meeting Registration Now Open!

Can’t make it to Los Angeles? Sign up for the virtual meeting and get access to more than 100 scientific sessions, all the plenaries, the MindGames competition, and more. Advance registration rates for both the virtual and in-person meeting are available until April 9.

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MindGames Masters Returns

Why should residents have all the fun? MindGames Masters—where experienced psychiatrists have a chance to participate in a live, “Jeopardy!”-style game that tests their knowledge in five psychiatry subspecialties—is back at this year’s Annual Meeting. Registrants for this paid course will take an online self-assessment (8 CME), with the top three scorers going on to the live finale. Registration also includes access to a four-hour review course (4 CME) at the meeting.

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Reserve Your Spot at the APA Foundation Benefit

The APA Foundation will hold its annual benefit on the evening of Monday, May 19, at the GRAMMY Museum. Support the Foundation’s mission to promote the mental health and well-being of individuals and communities while enjoying Southern California-inspired cuisine, entertainment (karaoke, anyone?), and access to the museum’s collections.

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New Executive Order Scrutinizes Psychotropic Medication Use in Youth

The order establishes a “Make America Healthy Again” commission, which among other tasks is instructed to “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs” as they relate to what the Trump administration calls “the childhood chronic disease crisis.”

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APA Announces Results of 2025 Election

APA members have chosen Mark Rapaport, M.D., as president-elect, subject to final approval at the March meeting of APA’s Board of Trustees. Rapaport and other newly elected members of the Board of Trustees will take office at the end of the 2025 Annual Meeting.

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Next Virtual Immersive to Explore Lifestyle Psychiatry

Join your colleagues on Tuesday, March 18, for an all-day virtual event on how to apply each of the pillars of lifestyle psychiatry—toxic exposures, nutrition, stress, sleep, exercise, and connectedness—in your clinical practice to help your patients thrive.

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Considering a Career Change? APA Has You Covered With JobCentral

APA JobCentral is the career hub for psychiatry. View open positions, post a resume, or set up email job alerts. Visit JobCentral to view recently posted positions, such as a psychiatrist at an eating disorder treatment program in Seattle, or an outpatient geriatric psychiatrist at the assistant/associate/professor level at the University of Vermont Medical Center. Review these as well as hundreds more job openings across the country and around the world.

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