The 2025 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles delivered five days of inspiring speakers, insightful education, and impactful networking.

Highlights from 2025 include:

• Advocacy, Transparency, and Transformation at Opening Session:
• Drs. Marketa M. Wills, Ramaswamy Viswanathan, and Theresa Miskimen Rivera shared a collective vision for an active, engaged, and growth-oriented APA.
• Dean Ornish, M.D.: ‘We Have to Work at a Deeper Level’
• The groundbreaking preventive medicine physician accepted APA’s inaugural Viswanathan Family Lifestyle Medicine and Psychiatry Award during the CEO Plenary.
• MHIZ: Back to the Innovation Lab
• In the Mental Health Innovation Zone, an AI-guided program for identifying objective clinical biomarkers of mental illness won over Innovation Lab judges.
• Session Spotlight: Artists’ Mental Health
• The stereotype of the “tortured artist” has been around for centuries. But is it accurate—or helpful?

You can also watch video highlights of the 2025 Annual Meeting on APA TV.

We look forward to you joining us in San Francisco for 4.5 days of engaging sessions and activities to drive the future of psychiatry. Our content will cover important topics and themes including psychopharmacology, cognitive health, mood & anxiety disorders, psychedelics in psychiatry and much more.

Plus, we’ll have other important opportunities to network with your colleagues, peruse profession advancing companies in our exhibit hall, and enjoy the beautiful city of San Francisco.

Stay up to date on all things Annual Meeting and get ready for registration launch on November 12.