APA Honors Many Who Work For Better Mental Health Care

Each year APA honors a number of individuals who have worked to improve the lives of people with mental illness in many ways, such as clinical practice, research, or public policy or advocacy work.

These are the people and the awards they received in conjunction with APA’s 2003 annual meeting in San Francisco in May, as listed in the program book of APA’s 47th Convocation of Distinguished Fellows.

William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture: Charles Krauthammer, M.D., best known for his syndicated column for the Washington Post.

Special Presidential Commendations: Richard Bonnie, L.L.B., the John S. Battle Professor of Law, professor of psychiatric medicine, and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia; Jay B. Cutler, J.D., former director of APA’s Division of Government Relations; Jeremy A. Lazarus, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and former speaker of the Assembly; Julien Mendlewicz, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of Brussels, chair of the department of psychiatry at Erasme Hospital in Brussels, and director of the Laboratory of Psychiatric Research at the Free University of Brussels; Lucy D. Ozarin, M.D., M.P.H., a longtime volunteer in APA’s Library who has worked meticulously to document the history of psychiatry; John A. Talbott, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and editor of the APA journal Psychiatric Services;Howard V. Zonana, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Yale University and training director of Yale’s Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

Distinguished Service Award:Leon Eisenberg, M.D., the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor in Harvard Medical School’s department of social medicine and professor emeritus of psychiatry; Donald J. Scherl, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and former president of Downstate Medical Center and longtime chair of APA’s Budget Committee.

Organizational Distinguished Service Award:Association of Women Psychiatrists, which was founded in 1983 by Alexandra Symonds, M.D.

APA/Lilly Resident Research Award: David Dybdal, M.D., Ph.D., a psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General/McLean Hospital; Almut Engelien, M.D., a psychiatry resident at Cornell University Medical Center, Payne Whitney Clinic; Shahzad M. Hashmi, M.D., chief psychiatry resident at Howard University Hospital; Laura Martin, M.D., a research fellow at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Patrick Zirnheld, M.D., a research fellow at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Human Rights Award:Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) and Sen. Paul D. Wellstone (D.-Minn.), for their work in trying to attain insurance parity for mental health services.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry: David A. Brent, M.D., academic chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and a professor of psychiatry, pediatrics, and epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentor): Donald C. Goff, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Schizophrenia Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and medical director of the Freedom Trail Clinic at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentee): Jennifer Lafayette, M.D., chief resident of the Acute Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention: William R. Beardslee, M.D., psychiatrist in chief and chair of the department of psychiatry at Children’s Hospital in Boston and the Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Joel P. Zrull, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry and former chair of the department of psychiatry at the Medical College of Ohio.

Isaac Ray Award: Robert I. Simon, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry and director of psychiatry and law at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry: Dilip V. Jeste, M.D., Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, a professor of psychiatry and neurosciences, and chief of the geriatric psychiatry division at the University of California, San Diego, and the VA San Diego Healthcare System.

Administrative Psychiatry Award Lecture: C. Edward Coffee, M.D., vice president of behavioral health and the Kathleen and Earl Ward chair of psychiatry at the Henry Ford Health System, a professor of psychiatry and neurology at Case Western Reserve University, and a clinical professor of psychiatry at Wayne State University.

APA Award for Research in Psychiatry Lecture: Ming T. Tsuang, M.D, Ph.D., D. Sc., Stanley Cobb professor of psychiatry and psychobiology at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics.

APIRE/AstraZeneca Young Minds in Psychiatry Awards: Paolo Brambilla, M.D., a senior postdoctoral clinical research fellow at the University of Pavia in Italy; Kiki D. Chang, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Pediatric Mood Disorders Clinic; Dost Ongur, M.D., Ph.D., a PGY-3 resident in adult psychiatry in the MGH/McLean residency training program; Hao-Yang Tan, M.D., a junior faculty member and psychiatrist with the department of psychological medicine at the National University of Singapore.

APIRE/GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellowship for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry:C. Daniel Salzman, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of neuroscience in psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia’s Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.

APIRE/GlaxoSmithKline Severe Mental Illness Research Fellowship: Raymond J. Kotwicki, M.D., a graduate of the Emory University department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences research training program and a fellow in community psychiatry and public health; Katalin Szanto, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

APIRE/Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship: K. Luan Phan, M.D., a graduate of the five-year research track of the University of Michigan psychiatry residency program.

APIRE/Wyeth M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship: E. David Leonardo, M.D., Ph.D., chief resident in psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University; Gabriel Vargas, M.D., Ph.D., a clinical fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.

Simon Bolivar Award Lecture:Juan J. Lopez-Ibor, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and head of the psychiatric unit of the San Carlos Hospital of the Complutense University in Madrid, coordinator for mental health for Madrid Area 7, and director of the World Health Organization Research and Training Center for Spain.

Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture: James H. Carter, M.D., M.Div., a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, senior consulting psychiatrist and co-founder of the social work-mental health unit at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, and medical director of the South Light program in Raleigh.

Alexander Gralnick, M.D., Award for Research in Schizophrenia:Marvin I. Herz, M.D., emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester.

Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture:Diane H. Schetky, M.D., a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine at Maine Medical Center in Portland; Elissa P. Benedek, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University, and consultant for the forensic psychiatry residency program at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry.

Health Services Research Early Career Award: Sheryl Kataoka, M.D., M.S.H.S., an assistant professor in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California-Los Angeles.

Health Services Research Senior Scholar Award: Stephen J. Bartels, M.D., M.S., an associate professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, director of aging services research at the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, co-director of the Behavioral Health Policy Institute, and medical director for the Division of Behavioral Health, state of New Hampshire.

Marmor Award Lecture: Sir Michael Rutter, M.D., a professor of developmental psychopathology at the Kings College Institute of Psychiatry in London and director of the Neuroscience Research Division of the Wellstone Trust.

Frank J. Menolascino Award for Psychiatric Services for Persons With Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities:Harvey Stabinsky, M.D., J.D., director of education and clinical director of the Mentally Ill/Mentally Retarded Dual Diagnosis Unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College.

Adolf Meyer Award Lecture: David Reiss, M.D., the Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Professor and director of the division of research and the Center for Family Research in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Patient Advocacy Award Lecture: Robin J. Munro, a member of the Centre of East Asian Law and the Law and Public Health in Developing Countries Research Group in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, founder of the Hong Kong office of Human Rights Watch, and the author of numerous Human Rights Watch publications.

Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture:Masahisa Nishizono, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and former dean of the Fukuoka University School of Medicine in Fukuoka, Japan.

Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., Minority Fellowship Achievement Award: Patricia I. Ordorica, M.D., an associate professor and director of the Addictive Disorders Section of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and associate chief of staff of mental health and behavioral sciences at Tampa VA Medical Center.

Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture: Donna E. Stewart, M.D., Lillian Love chair in women’s health at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto and a professor in the faculty of medicine in the departments of psychiatry, obstetrics/gynecology, medicine, anesthesia, family and community medicine, and surgery at the University of Toronto.

George Tarjan Award Lecture: Prakash N. Desai, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and associate dean in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and chief of staff at the Veterans Affairs Chicago Health Care System/West Side Division.

Arnold L. van Ameringen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Rose Hill Center, a residential rehabilitation facility for patients with severe psychiatric disorders in Holly, Mich.

APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture: Frederick S. Sierles, M.D., chair of psychiatry at Chicago Medical School. ▪