xxAACP Newsletter, Volume 15, Number 4, Fall 2001
Welcome to New ECP Board Member
The AACP Bylaws specifiy that an Early Career
Psychiatrist (ECP) representative sit on the Board. Last year the Board
solicited nominations which were reviewed by the Nominating Committee. This
summer Sue Bailey, MD was selected as the first ECP Representative. Her tenure
on the Board will begin with the fall Board meeting in Orlando, FL.
Dr. Bailey was born in Wichita, Kansas, grew
up in New Orleans, earned a BA in English literature from LSU Baton Rouge and an
MA in English literature from the University of New Orleans. She then taught
remedial writing at the University of California, Berkeley, for eight years
before entering medical school at George Washington University in Washington,
DC. She completed her internship and psychiatric residency at Johns Hopkins
Hospital in 1998. For the last three years she has worked in Maine as a National
Health Service Corps Scholar.
In 1999, Dr. Bailey established the Machias
River Clinic, a not-for-profit community mental health center in rural
Washington County. The clinic provides mental health and substance abuse
services to a psychiatrically underserved population. It also serves as a
training site for advanced practice nursing students from Husson College and
general nursing students from the University of Maine. The clinic has provided
consultation and supervision to two different statewide attempts to expand
access to psychiatric services in rural areas. In addition to directing the
Clinic, Dr. Bailey has provided contract services to one of the two Native
American reservations in Washington County and to an innovative residential
program for women with histories of trauma.
Dr. Bailey’s areas of interest include
schizophrenia and the care of the chronically mentally ill; personality disorder
and psychotherapy; mental health policy and services delivery.
If early career psychiatrists would like to
contact Dr. Bailey with opinions, concerns or questions, she can be reached at:
The Machias River Clinic, PO Box 630, Machias, ME 04654; phone: 207-255-4906;
email: sbailey@nemaine.com
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