title: Preparing psychologists in academic health centers for the rapidly changing health care environment.
abstract: The Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers (APAHC) convened its 5th National APAHC Conference in Boston March 3-5 2011. The conference and its theme, "Preparing Psychologists for a Rapidly Changing Health Care Environment," brought psychologists from academic health centers together to examine how psychology can adapt to and help lead health care efforts in the face of health care reform. This paper reports on the conference and introduces the special issue of JCPMS that is dedicated to the conference. The conference theme is framed in the historical context of the four national conferences that preceded it. In examining the focus and topics of the preceding conferences, recurrent themes are identified and progress in certain areas is highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, 111 Brewster Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA. Justin_Nash@Brown.edu
authors.forename: Justin M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Nash
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schuman
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D011584:Psychology / Q000639:trends*; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States