APAHC has long served as a vital professional home for many, myself included! Building on this foundation, we will continue to strengthen programming, partnerships, and advocacy efforts that support psychologists across career stages and roles. We will continue and also seek new opportunities to collaborate with aligned organizations to ensure that psychologist perspectives are represented in national conversations about academic health care.

Equally important, APAHC will continue to be a professional home - place of connection, sharing best practices, mentorship across the career, and collective purpose to amplify the voice of psychology within academic medicine. In a time when isolation is common and burnout is normalized, community itself becomes a protective factor. Our shared work, stories, and aspirations matter.

My vision for APAHC is grounded in a simple but powerful premise: the well-being of psychologists is not a “nice to have” — it is foundational. When psychologists are supported, valued, and able to work at the top of their expertise, patients receive better care, learners develop healthier professional identities, teams function more effectively, and institutions become more resilient. I encourage you to stay engaged: attend meetings, contribute your expertise, mentor colleagues, and share both your challenges and your innovations. Our collective wisdom is one of APAHC’s greatest strengths. By working together, we can foster environments in which psychologists not only endure academic health care but genuinely thrive within it.

Thank you for the work you do every day, often behind the scenes, to support patients, learners, teams, institutions, and each other. I look forward to serving alongside you in the years ahead.