Nada Logan Stotland (born August 15, 1943) is an American psychiatrist and the 135th president of the
American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world. It has more than 39,200 members who are in ...
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Education
Stotland received her undergraduate degree from the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...
, where she later received her M.D. and also completed her residency.
Career
Stotland later joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where she held multiple different positions, including Director of Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service and Director of Psychiatric Education. She later left this university to become medical coordinator for the
Illinois Department of Mental Health, and after that, became the chair of psychiatry at the
Illinois Masonic Medical Center. She served as the 135th president of the American Psychiatric Association from 2008 to 2009. As of July 2012, she held two professorships in two different departments at
Rush Medical College
Rush Medical College is the medical school of Rush University, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1837, it is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center, and John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
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, one in psychiatry and one in obstetrics and gynecology.
Work
Stotland has written about multiple topics in the field of
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior.
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, including the alleged
adverse mental health effects of abortion.
References
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Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association
American psychiatrists
University of Chicago alumni
Living people
Pritzker School of Medicine alumni
University of Chicago faculty
Rush Medical College faculty
American women psychiatrists
1943 births
American women academics
21st-century American women