Congratulations to Ray Hsiao, MD who was named 2025-2026 speaker-elect of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Assembly during the Annual Meeting of the APA in Los Angeles, CA.

The APA Assembly represents and serves the needs of the district branches and state associations and recommends actions to the Board of Trustees. Their meetings are officiated by a speaker, speaker-elect, and recorder using The American Institute of Parliamentarians Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure. To ensure a wide range of voices and ideas, Assembly representatives are selected regionally and include resident-fellows, early-career psychiatrists, minority and underrepresented psychiatrists, and representatives from allied organizations.

Dr. Hsiao is director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency program at Seattle Children’s Hospital where he is also serving as interim chief of psychiatry and interim director of  the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.