Donald Eric Widmann, M.D., Affiliate Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, has been appointed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) to a newly created position as Director of Psychiatric Services. His primary responsibility will be to develop a single set of standards that will apply to both hospital-based and hospital-related psychiatric services. Myrene McAninch, Ph.D., will retain her position as Director of JCAH's Accreditation Program for Psychiatric Facilities.

During the past two years, Dr. Widmann has served as a commissioner of the Divisions of Mental Health and Forensic Psychiatry for the Ohio Department of Mental Health, Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Widmann, who was Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1973 to 1978 and at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., from 1975 to 1978, is currently a doctoral candidate in public administration at the New York University Graduate School of Business and Public Administration.