About the OPPA

The OPPA was founded in 1950 as the third district branch of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). It is incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio as a non-profit scientific organization. It is a medical specialty society with over 1,000 psychiatric physician members located throughout Ohio.

The objectives of the Association are to function in cooperation with the APA to foster the science and enhance the progress of psychiatry, to serve as an influence toward the maintenance of high professional and administrative standards thereto related, and to assist the APA in promoting its aims and objectives, which are:

(a) to promote the common professional interests of its members;
(b) to improve the treatment, rehabilitation, and care of persons with mental disorders (including mental retardation and substance-related disorders);
(c) to advance the standards of all psychiatric services and facilities;
(d) to promote research, professional education in psychiatry and allied fields, and the prevention of psychiatric disabilities;
(e) to foster the cooperation of all who are concerned with the medical, psychological, social, and legal aspects of mental health and illness;
(f) to make psychiatric knowledge available to practitioners of medicine, to scientists, and to the public;
(g) to promote the best interests of patients and those actually or potentially making use of mental health services; and
(h) to advocate for its members.

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