Featured Plenary Speakers

President's Symposium

Advocacy in Action

Abstract

Katherine G. Kennedy, MD

• Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine where she directs the Yale Legislative Advocacy Program, co-leads the Advocacy Track for the Health Equity Curriculum, serves as Faculty Co-Leader of the Psychotherapy Distinction Track, and supervises psychiatry residents in psychotherapy. She is a board-certified adult psychiatrist with a private practice in New Haven, Connecticut
• Chair of the Legislative Committee for the Connecticut Psychiatric Society and Section Co-Editor of “Voices in Advocacy and Policy” for Psychiatric News, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
• From 2020-2024, she chaired the APA Council on Advocacy and Government Relations

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Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP

• Chief Public Policy Officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• Past Associate Director in the Division of Federal Affairs in the Advocacy Department at the American Medical Association (AMA) and Vice President at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
• Past legislative assistant and policy advisor to two United States senators, and also had a federal clerkship for the US Court of Federal Claims
• Maintains her admissions to the highest courts in the District of Columbia, New York, and Maryland. She is also admitted to the US Supreme Court, the US District Court for the District of Columbia, and the US Court of Federal Claims.

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