Insight Matters
Winter, 2002

Candidate for OPA Secretary: Ralph Walton, M.D.

Biographical Sketch

• Current professional activities:
  Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine;
  Chairman, Center for Behavioral Medicine, Forum Health, Youngstown;
  Private practice in general adult psychiatry, Boardman, Ohio.
• Education and training
  B.A. University of Rochester, 1963;
  M.D. State University of N.Y., Syracuse 1967;
  Internship, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, 1967-68;
  Residency in Psychiatry, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester 1968-71.
• Past Professional activities
  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 1973-76;
  Director of an adult inpatient unit, and founding Director of Strong Memorial Hospital Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program;
  Chairman, Jamestown General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, 1976-88;
  Commissioner of Mental Health, Chautauqua County, N.Y. 1985-88;
  Private practice of general adult psychiatry, Jamestown, N.Y. 1976-88.
• Elected positions
  Two terms as President of the Medical Staff, Jamestown General Hospital, Jamestown, N.Y. 1984, 1985;
  President Jamestown Medical Society, 1986;
  President Youngstown chapter of OPA 1994.
• APA and OPA Activities
  Elected Fellow of the APA, 1991;
  Government Relations Committee of the OPA 2001;
  Board of OPPAC 2001.
  

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