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Board of Trustees Names New Editors for Psychiatric Services, Books

After lengthy nationwide searches, APA’s Board of Trustees has appointed two new editors to help shape the future of APA Publishing. On June 1, Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A. (left), will become the new editor-in-chief of books, and on January 1, 2017, Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H. (right), will become the new editor of Psychiatric Services.

“We are delighted to have Dr. Dixon and Dr. Roberts, two very prominent and accomplished leaders in psychiatry, joining us in their new leadership roles,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin, M.D., M.P.A. “They will each bring a tremendous depth of knowledge, experience, and innovation to their new roles.” Roberts is the chair and Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of Psychiatry Service for Stanford Hospital and Clinics. In her new role, Roberts will be responsible for guiding the editorial policy, acquisitions, and content development for all of the book titles published annually by APA Publishing.

Dixon is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and the director of the Division of Behavioral Health Services and Policy Research in the Department of Psychiatry. She also directs the Center for Practice Innovations at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In her new role, Dixon will oversee and ensure the quality of research submitted and published by Psychiatric Services through strategic outreach to top researchers.

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