Nominations Invited For Minority Fellowship Achievement Award

APA is seeking nominations for its 2005 Jeanne Spurlock Minority Fellowship Achievement Award. This award recognizes the outstanding achievements of alumnae and alumni of the APA minority fellowships and encourages continued involvement in the fellowship program. (A list of alumnae and alumni is posted online at www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/minorityfellowalumnilist.cfm).

Nominations should include a brief letter describing the nominee’s contributions and details about his or her qualifications for the award and the nominee’s curriculum vitae. The deadline for receipt of nominations is April 30.

Previous winners include Irma Bland, M.D., William Lawson, M.D., and Patricia Ordorica, M.D. This year’s winner is former fellow Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health and a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Nominations should be sent to Evaristo Akerele, M.D., Chair, APA/SAMHSA Selection and Advisory Committee, APA, Department of Minority/National Affairs, Suite 1825, MS#2038, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va. 22209-3901. ▪