Virginia Anthony, AACAP Executive Director, announced her selection of Kristin Kroeger Ptakowski to serve as AACAP Deputy Executive Director. Last December, she was named Director of Government Affairs and Clinical Practice. Kristin will continue these responsibilities and take on the additional responsibilities of Deputy Executive Director beginning May 1, 2005.
For immediate release:
Apr 29, 2005
Contact:
Jim Wood, Director Development and Communications
202.966.7300, ext. 120, jwood@aacap.org
WASHINGTON, DC—Virginia Anthony, AACAP Executive Director, announced her selection of Kristin Kroeger Ptakowski to serve as AACAP Deputy Executive Director. Last December, she was named Director of Government Affairs and Clinical Practice. Kristin will continue these responsibilities and take on the additional responsibilities of Deputy Executive Director beginning May 1, 2005.
Kristin has worked in the mental health field for 14 years. She first joined the AACAP staff in 1996 as Assistant Director of Government Affairs. In 2000, she was appointed Director of Clinical Affairs gaining accolades from AACAP members for her work with many of our components. She was responsible for the development of policy issues such as access to care, reimbursement, and systems-based care as well as the development of our practice parameters and educational programs on children’s systems-based care. Before coming to the AACAP, she worked in the Department of Government Relations at the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI).
Representing over 7,500 child and adolescent psychiatrists nationwide, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is the leading authority on children’s mental health. AACAP members actively research, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and their families.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is the leading authority on children’s mental health. AACAP members actively research, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and their families.
Our Facts for Families, available free of charge on the AACAP website, provide concise and up-to-date information on a wide array of issues relating to children’s mental health. Written in a simple, straightforward manner, these 88 one-page fact sheets are valuable to anyone raising or working with children. In addition, the AACAP routinely refers the media to expert spokespeople on child and adolescent issues, and sponsors The Campaign for America’s Kids – an initiative designed to fund an Advocacy Institute for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, with the goal of mental health for all children.
AACAP Mission: The Mission of the AACAP is the promotion of mentally healthy children, adolescents and families through research, training, advocacy, prevention, comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, peer support and collaboration.
