2025 Women’s Psychiatric Leadership Meeting
In-Person event
Sunday, September 9, 2025
10:30 am -1:30 pm
Brunch at the
EAST BANK CLUB
500 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60654
Onsite Parking Available
Topic: Mentorship In the Fast Lane: Lessons Learned by a Career Residency Program Director and Physician Wellbeing Leader
with Guest Speaker: Joan M. Anzia, M.D, DLFAPA
Summary: In an interactive presentation, Dr. Anzia will illustrate core principles of mentorship through selected stories from her longtime roles as a psychiatry residency director, a physician health liaison in a large academic medical center, and in leadership roles in medical education. Attendees will be encouraged to share their own stories of effective (and ineffective!) mentorship to create a lively and supportive group learning experience.
Meet our Guest Speaker:
Joan M. Anzia, M.D, DLFAPA
Joan M. Anzia, M.D. is Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine/Northwestern University; from 2006 until 2022 she served as Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Psychiatry and the Physician Health Liaison/Wellness Officer for Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Lurie Children’s Hospital. Her areas of clinical expertise are in trauma-related disorders, disaster mental health, and physician wellbeing and professionalism. She served as the psychiatry residency program director for the Department from June 2006 till January 2020.
Dr. Anzia is a career medical educator who is a member of the inaugural class of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators, or FAME. She served as a residency program director and associate program director for over 30 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago and McGaw/Northwestern, and has won numerous local, regional and national teaching awards during her career. She was chosen as Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Mecklenberg Distinguished Physician Awardee in 2020 and the McGaw (Graduate Medical Education) Distinguished Service Awardee in 2016. She is a Past President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), which awarded her their Master Educator Certificate, and was given the AAP Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Dr. Anzia also served as a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning for five years, and she is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the APA. In 2017 she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha at Northwestern.
Dr. Anzia completed a six-year term on the ACGME Psychiatry RRC, or Residency Review Committee. She served as a Director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for nine years, and assumed the position of Chair of the Board in January 2023-2024. While serving on the ABPN, she co-led the creation and implementation of a new online program in continuing certification in psychiatry: Article-Based Continuing Certification. She served as the ABPN Representative to the ABMS, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and on the Continuing Certification Committee of the ABMS. She is also a Director of the American Board of Family Medicine and Vice Chair of their Professionalism Committee.
Dr. Anzia has also been active in organized medicine and psychiatry throughout her career; she served as President of the Illinois Psychiatric Society from 2004-2006; during which she advocated for improved access and quality of mental health care for Illinois residents, and provided testimony in the Illinois Legislature on access to care and scope of practice issues. She is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, served on its Board of Regents and is the President-Elect of the College.
Questions? Contact Kristen Malloy at kmalloy@ilpsych.org.
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