ANNOUNCEMENTS: Continued

where she co-chaired the ACGME Task Force on Physician Well Being. She is also amember of the Action Collaborative on Clinician Wellbeing and Resilience of the National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous awards from national organizations including the APA, the ACGME and the American College of Psychiatrists.

GAP and the founding chair of the Committee on the Arts and Humanities. He has served on the GAP Publications Board and currently serves on the GAP Fellowship Committee. David is a committed GAP member and hasn’t missed a meeting since he was a Fellow on the College Student Committee during from 2009 to 2010. He continued as a Ginsburg Fellow on the History Committee before forming the Arts Committee, which later merged with the History Committee to form the Arts and Humanities Committee.

David Sasso is the Chair of the GAP Committee on Arts & Humanities. He is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Connecticut, where he maintains a private practice in Westport. He serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department on Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center at Yale University School of Medicine, where he acts as a psychotherapy supervisor for child psychiatry fellows and runs a weekly group supervision for interns on their adolescent inpatient rotations. He is a Senior Fellow of the

David received his MD and MPH from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. He trained in Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he was Chief Resident in both the Adult and Child programs. He served for 9 years as Medical Director of the Child Guidance Center of Mid-Fairfield County, where he treated the Spanish-speaking population in Norwalk, CT. He maintains a private practice in psychiatry and psychotherapy in Connecticut. David is passionate about the role of the humanities and humanistic thinking in psychiatry and psychiatric education and about the importance of psychotherapy as a central component of psychiatric training and practice. Prior to medical school, David grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and studied at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music in Music Composition alongside a B.S. in Biochemistry. His full-length opera featuring children as the main characters and performers, The Trio of Minuet, was premiered in 2003. His published children’s choir works are performed around the country. David has worked with patients at Connecticut’s state psychiatric hospital for youth to create a series of original opera scenes with the plot and music generated by the hospitalized teens themselves. These “Riverview Operas” were performed privately at the hospital and subsequently produced and presented publicly by the Hillhouse Opera Company in New Haven. In recent years, David has focused on various traditional folk genres on mandolin-family instruments. His duo project, Kat Wallace and David Sasso, has released two albums to local, national, and international critical acclaim. He recently appeared as a guest on “Times Will Tell,” a podcast of The Times of Israel, discussing his music and the many intersections between psychiatry and the arts. You can often find David performing or leading a jam session after Friday night dinner at GAP meetings. b. We are reprinting an article written by Doug Kramer, M.D., Chair of the Research Committee, published by American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry News, Opinions discussing the value of GAP. See the following pages.