The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Philip J. Candilis, MD: Biography

I first met Phil Candilis in Denver during the historic American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) blizzard of 1997. We were both attending as fellow members of the Ethics Committee. Phil would continue as the longest sitting ethics committee member in AAPL’s history, becoming chair some 15 years later.

The blizzard stranded us in one of the satellite hotels that was quickly running out of food and drink, but we never ran out of topics for engaging conversation and contagious laughter. Those hotel conversations would become phone calls during the year, dinners with our families at future AAPL meetings, and outings with our kids in conference cities with the best aquariums. For Phil, the professional and personal were always connected in one integrated whole.