Welcome Joell Gallardo

The Membership Department has re-ceived over 162 applications for APA Fellowship. Applications will continue to be processed by Membership Co-ordinators. Each DB with applicants will receive applications for recom-mendation during the month of Sep-tember for a 30-day review period.

Please contact Tara Spencer at tspencer@psych.org if you have any questions about the process for pro-viding recommendations.

105 Distinguished Fellowship nomina-tions were submitted by the DBs for review at the October APA Member-ship Committee Meeting! This is an increase of 12 nominations from last year! Members who were nominated will receive a congratulatory letter from the Membership Committee Chair, Dr. Joseph Rubin during the first week in August. DBs will be noti-fied of the outcome of the review and approval process in December.

Joell Gallardo began as a Membership Coordinator on June 21st in the Mem-bership Department. He previously worked at the American Psychological Association as a Senior Communica-tions Specialist. Joell has a broad back-ground which includes database man-agement, visual merchandising, and customer service.

He is responsible for Area 1 as well as Area 7 -- Idaho, Western Canada, Utah, New Mexico, Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming areas. Joell can be reached at jgallardo@psych.org

or 888.357-7924 Ext.8691.

We are very happy that he has joined our team.

Welcome Joell!!

this issue

Welcome Joell Gallardo P.1 The Next Generation P.1

Fellowship P.1

Distinguished Fellowship P.1

Recruitment & Retention P.2

Dues Relief P.2 DB/SA Website Tip P.2

Non-Centralized Billing Initiative P.3

DID YOU KNOW? P.3

Calendar P.3

APA Fellowship Applications

Distinguished Fellowship Nominations

DBUpdate Member Transactions Recruitment Department News

MONTHLY

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5 JULY 2010

The Next Generation APA President Dr. Carol A. Bernstein’s July 2nd Psychiatric News message asks us to make our younger members needs a priority during the coming year. She plans to create a mentoring structure to spur interaction be-tween seasoned scientific leaders and early-career psychiatrists. Outreach that joins na-tional and academic leaders is stressed as a

means of networking and dissemination of APA information. The APA Membership Department is developing a New Mem-ber Contact Program which corresponds with Dr. Bernstein’s objective and aims to connect with new members, who are most often Members-In-Training and reinstating ECPs. Be sure to read Dr. Bernstein’s message about this important element of the Association.

Recruitment & Retention Affinity Programs

The Membership Department continues to field inquiries from mem-bers regarding the change in malpractice insurance provider endorse-ment. A second email notification blast was sent to members with updated information about American Professional Agency, Inc., pro-viding a link to a Frequency Asked Questions document.

Fellowship

Promotion for Fellowship continued with a 2nd email blast to eligible members on June 18th. A postcard mailing is scheduled for the week of July 26th to members without email addresses. Member with ap-plications needing letters of support are also contacted by their Membership Coordinator and a monthly email blast.

Member-In-Training to General Member Advancements

An email blast was sent on June 28th to 1,125 MITs who completed training between April and July of 2010. It included information about how they can easily advance to General Membership or retain their MIT status. We have received an impressive response from those members. Most have provided us with continuing training up-dates. A print mailing to 984 of these members who did respond to the email blast was sent out on July 15th.

An email reminder was sent on June 29th to 153 MITs who com-pleted training between January 2009 and March 2010. A print mailing to those who did not respond to this notice will be sent on July 23rd.

Membership Coordinators are now in the process of verifying training completion using the ACGME residency census for those MITs from whom we have verified licensure.

DUES RELIEF

All pending dues relief recom-mendations should be submit-ted to your Membership Coordi-nator for review by the APA Board of Trustees no later than Friday August 6th.

As a reminder, dues relief should be strictly limited to two consecutive years unless there are extenuating circumstances.

DB/SA Website Tips

Membership Website The DB/SA's website is continually updated with resources to assist DB/SA's with membership processing and promotions. A NEW Website Navigation Guide was created by Allison Moraske, Program Manager of the APA Ethics and DB/State Society Relations Department. This user friendly guide contains active links to frequently visited areas.

DON’T FORGET!!!

Billing Contracts should be completed and returned to the Membership Department no later than August 13th. Visit the website for individual DB dues rates. Contact Tony Desantis at adesantis@psych.org if you have questions.

Non-Centralized Billing Initiative

The Membership Department is excited to

offer again this year the Non-Centralized Bill-

ing DB Initiative. This initiative was intro-

duced last year as part of the “Save Our

Members” campaign designed specifically for

the NCB DB retention efforts and to work in

concert with the APA Drop Cycle. We ex-

pected it to do well, but no one could have

guessed how successful it would be. The full

support and partnership of the DBs along

with the diligence of the Membership Coor-

dinators was a winning combination.

For instance, Oregon Psychiatric Association

started with 18 potential drops and saved 17

members and the Greater Long Island Psychi-

atric Society had 130 potential drops and

was able to save 95 members. Solid evidence

that our coordinated efforts proved to be

beneficial in retaining our members.

This year, during the months of August, Sep-

tember, and October, Non-Centralized DBs

and their Membership Coordinators will

send out letters and email blasts to serve as

reminders to pay your dues. Also, they will

share drop payment report information to

remove those at-risks member from the drop

lists. It is our hope that this initiative will re-

port even bigger gains than last year.

APA members donated $7,247 to the New Orleans

Mission. These donations will help the mission con-

tinue to help homeless individuals with meals,

clothing ,shelter and job-training.

APA, Inc. our newly endorsed malpractice insurer is

also endorsed by the American Academy of Child &

Adolescent Psychiatry.

Advance registration ends on September 24th for

the 62nd 2010 APA Institute on Psychiatric Services.

The Preliminary program is available now online.

DID YOU KNOW?

APA Membership Department

1000 Wilson Boulevard

Suite 1825

Arlington, VA 22209

membership@psych.org

888.357.7924 ph

June EFT and DB Dues reports in mail JULY 13

Email blast to members eligible for Fellow JULY 14

Email to members w/ incomplete FE apps JULY 16 MAR/MICR SENT JULY 19 DBs notified of number of FE apps JULY 19

Email to members needing DB transfer JULY 29 MAR/MICR SENT AUGUST 2 DUES RELIEF recommendations due AUGUST 6

July EFT and DB Dues reports in mail AUGUST 10 Email to members with open balance AUGUST 11

BILLING CONTRACTS DUE AUGUST 13

MAR/MICR SENT AUGUST 16

Invoice mailing to pending drops AUGUST 25 Email to members needing DB transfer AUGUST 26

MAR/MICR SENT AUGUST 30

Membership Department Calendar