Kraus Honored

Robert Kraus, M.D., is the recipient of the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture. The award is given annually to a person who has made “outstanding and enduring contributions to the field of cultural psychiatry.”

Kraus is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Kentucky and a scientific associate of the American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research Center at the University of Colorado, Denver. Among his many international experiences are consulting to the Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow and the Republic Hospital for Nervous Disease in Yerevan, Armenia, and teaching at the University of Kuwait, University of Capetown in South Africa, and Marmora University in Istanbul. ▪