Marketa Wills, M.D., M.B.A., Named Next APA CEO and Medical Director

After a nationwide search, APA ’s Board of Trustees announced today that Marketa Wills, M.D., M.B.A., will become the CEO and medical director of APA effective June 1. She will be APA’s eighth medical director and the first woman and Black American to fill the role. She succeeds CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin, M.D., M.P. A., who assumed the role in 2013.Wills currently serves as the senior vice president and chief medical officer of Johns Hopkins Health Plans; has a clinical practice at the University of South Florida Student Health Services in Tampa, Fla.; and serves as the chair of the Standards Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. She is a member of the APA Council on Healthcare Systems and Financing and served on the Workgroup on the Future of Psychiatry in 2022-2023. In 2002 she was a member of the Board of Trustees as an APA/SAMHSA Minority Fellow.“As a longtime mental health advocate, I am honored to take the reins of APA at this time in our history,” Wills said in a press release. “Given where we are, with the explosion of AI, innovation, and the changing landscape of technology, I look forward to working with APA’s membership and t he administration to accelerate psychiatry into the future.”APA President Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., said in a statement to members, “Dr. Wills brings decades of experience in driving innovation and promoting quality mental health care to APA.” With Hopkins, “she leads a staff of 300 employe...
Source: Psychiatr News - Category: Psychiatry Tags: APA APA CEO and medical director APA Council on Healthcare Systems and Financing June 1 Maria Oquendo Marketa Wills Petros Levounis Saul Levin Source Type: research