Nadelson Receives 2009 Renaissance Woman Award

Former APA President Carol Nadelson, M.D., has been awarded the Alma Dea Morani, M.D., Renaissance Woman Award for 2009 by the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine.

The award honors an outstanding woman physician or scientist in North America who has furthered the practice and understanding of medicine and made significant contributions outside of medicine; and whose determination and spirit have carried her beyond traditional pathways in medicine and science, and who challenges the status quo with a passion for learning.

“This is a richly deserved award,” said then APA President Nada Stotland, M.D., M.P.H. “Dr. Nadelson has mentored generations of leaders in psychiatry, both men and women; developed American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. as the world's foremost psychiatric publisher; and pioneered scholarship in women's mental health. As the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association, her accomplishments have been an inspiration to me and to all my female colleagues.”

Since 1998, Nadelson has been director of the Partners Office for Women's Careers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and since 1995 she has been a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. ▪