New York County District Branch, American Psychiatric Association

The New York County District Branch is one of the largest branches of the APA. The mission of the Branch is to promote the common professional interests of its members while working to improve the treatment, rehabilitation, and care of persons with mental disorders and to advance the standards of all psychiatric services and facilities. The District Branch also aims to promote research, foster cooperation between all those who are concerned with the medical, psychological, social, and legal aspects of mental health and illness, and make psychiatric knowledge available to practitioners of medicine, scientists, and the public, to name a few.