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. ▪