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AACDP president’s messageEducation is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. 
Stuart Munro, M.D. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our AACDP membership for the opportunity to serve as your president. AACDP is one of the most important sources of nurturance and satisfaction in my professional life, and I plan to continue to invest my time and energy in the organization’s growth and development. Pasadena provided a lovely backdrop for our Fall meeting, which proved to be a richly rewarding experience. Outgoing president, Laura Roberts, led a lively discussion of the challenges involved in one of our most important “hidden” tasks, that of leading search committees for new Department Chairs and Deans at our schools of medicine. Carlos Pato and David Baron, our local hosts, led a hike to their favorite jazz club to close out our Saturday session. On Sunday morning, another relevant and helpful discussion was led by a panel who explored the topic of mentoring. Elizabeth Kunkel, our AACDP fellow, compared and contrasted her experiences of being mentored by Michael Vergare and Laura Roberts. Lon Hays and George Keepers provided examples of how they found mentors in both personal and professional settings. Murali Rao described a peer mentoring initiative that he has fostered among the Chicago area Chairs. We learned in our discussions how mentors and mentees are often discovered in places we were not expecting them. We also explored the pros and cons of executive “coaches”. These kinds of valuable exercises are a part of each of our AACDP meetings. I urge you to attend. Next May, at the APA-linked meeting, we have decided to ask each Chair to invite a key faculty member, perhaps, but not necessarily, a Vice-Chair, to join us for the Saturday afternoon activities and the reception that follows. The intent is to reach out to future Chairs and provide them with knowledge about our organization and the mentorship that our membership can provide. Sunday morning will be just us. We hope to hear from David Kupfer and Darrel Regier on the status of DSM-V. We are planning to expand our meeting in the Fall of 2011 into a retreat. The meeting will be held in the Scottsdale Arizona from Friday evening, September 23rd through Sunday morning the 25th. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch. Soon you will find a link on the AACDP website to pictures of this property. The setting is an ideal one for periods of focusing on important issues while also taking some time for relaxation and restoration. Please put this meeting on your calendar now and plan to join us. Those of you who attended our meetings in New Orleans and/or Pasadena will remember my slide of a Bernini sculpture of Aeneus fleeing the battle of Troy. He is not alone, as he carries his father on his shoulders while his young son clings to his legs. I find it a fitting image of our roles as Chairs as well, of course, as in our personal lives. We are called upon to be helpful in many different ways to many different persons. This, then, is my theme for my tenure as president: find ways to be helpful. I look forward to working with all of you as we work together to support and engage in our AACDP. Stuart Munro, M.D.
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