APA Assembly Rep

Laurel Bessey, MD
Univ. of Wisconsin

I am a general adult outpatient psychiatrist and one of the associate residency training directors at the University of Wisconsin. I have been active in organized medicine at local, state and national levels since starting my residency at UW in 2014. I have been an active member of the WPA executive committee since 2019, starting as an Early Career representative and have had the honor of serving as one of the Wisconsin Representatives to the APA assembly since 2021. As Wisconsin Representative to the APA assembly, I am familiar with the APA policy making process at the national level and how to work within it to represent what matters to Wisconsin psychiatrists.