August 19, 2022
Dear WPATH Members and Colleagues:
On behalf of the WPATH 2022 Election Nominating Committee – Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD (Chair); Marci Bowers, MD; Bartosz Grabski, MD, PhD; Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R; Gail Knudson, MD, FRCP, MEd; Christina Richards, PsyD; and Stephen Rosenthal, MD; – we are pleased to present you with the ballot for the 2022 WPATH Global Board of Directors.
You will be receiving your ballot directly from Survey Monkey later today. The message and link to vote will be sent to the email address associated with your WPATH account, where you are receiving this notice, and each voting member will receive a ballot and is asked to vote by the deadline.
If you do not receive the email from Survey Monkey by Monday, August 22, 2022, and after also checking your junk/spam folder, please contact Tricia Saunders at tricia@PROTECTED, she will be able to assist you. Please be sure and reach out in plenty of time, so that we can be sure and get you the link to vote well before the deadline.
The deadline for voting is Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 11:59pm EDT (GMT-4).
All members on the officer slate have been vetted and approved by us, the 2022 Election Nominating Committee, based on the applications received, and was approved as presented by the WPATH Board of Directors. All members that applied to be a Member-at-Large, and met the criteria for the position, which can be found here, are presented to you as candidates for the WPATH Board positions.
Newly-elected Board Officers and Members-at-Large will be installed at a meeting of the full WPATH Board of Directors near or in conjunction with the WPATH 27th Scientific Symposium, being held live in Montreal, Canada from September 16 - 20, 2022. The Board meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, following the conclusion of scientific sessions.
Your current board members and their terms, are as follows:
WPATH Board of Directors 2022 Executive Committee (2020 – 2022) |
President | Walter Pierre Bouman, MD, PhD |
Immediate Past-President | Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD |
President-Elect | Marci Bowers, MD |
Secretary | Asa Radix, MD, PhD, MPH |
Treasurer | Loren Schechter, MD |
Members-at-Large (2018 – 2022; 2020 - 2022) | Members-at-Large (2020 – 2024) |
(2018 – 2022) Tamara Adrian, JD Jaimie Veale, PhD (2020 – 2022) Javier Belinky, MD Michael Marshall, MBBS, MRCPsych, CCT, PGDip (Law) | Christina Richards, PsyD Stephen Rosenthal, MD Sanjay Sharma, MBBS, MMS Greg Mak, MD, FRCP, MBBS (ASIAPATH Representative – Term determined by ASIAPATH Board) Guy G.R. T’Sjoen, PhD (EPATH Representative – Term determined by EPATH Board) Madeline B. Deutsch, MD, MPH (USPATH Representative – Term determined by USPATH Board) |
Lane Kantor, MD/MPH Candidate; Ex-Officio Member (WPATH Student Initiative Representative) |
Thank you in advance for being a WPATH member and for carefully reviewing and voting in the WPATH 2022 Board Election. Your opinion counts and we urge you to review and vote today, once your ballot is received via SurveyMonkey.
The deadline for voting is Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 11:59pm EDT (GMT-4).
Kind regards,
Your WPATH 2022 Election Nominating Committee,
Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD (Chair)
Marci Bowers, MD
Bartosz Grabski, MD, PhD
Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R
Gail Knudson, MD, FRCP, MEd
Christina Richards, PsyD
Stephen Rosenthal, MD