APA Awards Individuals, Programs For Contributions to MH Care

Each year APA honors those who have advanced the field of psychiatry through their clinical practices, research, public policy work, and advocacy.

The following is a list of awards and their recipients who were recognized during APA’s 2002 annual meeting in Philadelphia in May. The winners were listed in the program book of APA’s 46th Convocation of Fellows.

William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture and Patient Advocacy Award: Rodger McFarlane, president emeritus of Bailey House and Tony Award–winning producer.

Special Presidential Commendations:John Blamphin, director of public affairs in APA’s Division of Communications and Marketing; J. Richard Ciccone, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and founding director of the Psychiatry and Law Program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine; Spencer Eth, M.D., a professor and vice chair of the department of psychiatry at New York Medical College and senior vice president and medical director of Behavioral Health Services of the St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers; Bernard Katz, M.D., trustee of Advocates Health Care Systems and Pratt Medical Group of the New England Medical Center and former medical director of Westwood Lodge Hospital and Bridgewater State Hospital; Francis G. Lu, M.D., a professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the Cultural Competence and Diversity Program in the department of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital; W. Walter Menninger, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Kansas University Medical School and chair of the trustees of the Menninger Foundation; Donna M. Norris, M.D., a private practitioner and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and former APA Assembly speaker.

Distinguished Service Award:Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic at Baylor College of Medicine and training and supervising analyst at Houston/Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute; Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.); Judith L. Rapoport, M.D., chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health.

Organizational Distinguished Service Award:National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the leading donor-supported organization raising and distributing funds for research in psychiatric disorders. Since 1987 NARSAD has awarded $120 million in research grants.

APA Award for Research in Psychiatry:Alan F. Shatzberg, M.D., the Kenneth T. Norris Jr. Professor and chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.

APA/Lilly Resident Research Award: Christoph Correll, M.D., a psychiatry resident at Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Mohamed Fayek, M.D., a psychiatry resident at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California; Manoj Lekhwani, M.D., a psychiatry resident at the Medical College of Pennsylvania-Hahnemann University; Katalin Szanto, M.D., a psychiatry resident at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh; Purushottam Thapa, M.D., a psychiatry resident at the University of Arkansas.

Francis J. Braceland Award for Public Service:David Fassler, M.D., clinical director of Otter Creek Associates, a clinical associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Vermont, and APA trustee-at-large.

Human Rights Award: Gro Harlem Bruntland, M.D., director-general of the World Health Organization; National Alliance for Multicultural Mental Health, which has provided culturally appropriate mental health training to service providers working with refugees since 1996.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry: David R. Offord, M.D., director of McMaster University’s Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk in Hamilton, Ontario.

Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry:S. Charles Schulz, M.D., a professor and head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School; Tonya Jo Hanson White, M.D., an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention: Judith L. Rapoport, M.D., chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:Richard L. Cohen, M.D., professor emeritus of child psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert T. Morse Writers Award: Mubarak Dahir, a freelance writer in New York City.

Isaac Ray Award: Philip J. Resnick, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry:Burton V. Reifler, M.D., M.P.H., a professor and former chair of the department of psychiatry at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

APA/GlaxoSmithKline Junior Faculty Fellowship for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry: Erica Duncan, M.D., an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University.

Administrative Psychiatry Award Lecture:Steven Sharfstein, M.D., president and CEO of Sheppard Pratt Health System, vice chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Maryland, and APA vice president.

Simon Bolivar Award Lecture:Ian A. Canino, M.D., deputy director of training in child and adolescent psychiatry and a clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture:Louis Stokes, former U.S. representative from Ohio.

Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture:John Monahan, Ph.D., a professor of psychology and legal medicine and Doherty Chair in Law at the University of Virginia; Paul Appelbaum, M.D., A.F. Zeleznik distinguished professor of psychiatry, chair of the department of psychiatry, director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and APA president; Steven Banks, Ph.D., an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; Edward P. Mulvey, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Pamela Clark Robbins, vice president for operations and director of the analysis division of Policy Research Associates Inc.; Loren H. Roth, M.D., associate senior vice chancellor of health sciences and professor of psychiatry and professor of health administration at the University of Pittsburgh and senior vice president of medical services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System; Eric Silver, Ph.D., an assistant professor of crime, law, justice, and sociology at the Pennsylvania State University; Henry J. Steadman, Ph.D., president of Policy Research Associates Inc.

Health Services Research Early Career Award: Paul Ciechanowski, M.D., an assistant professor and consultation-liaison psychiatrist at the University of Washington Medical Center; Michael J. Sernyak Jr., M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Health Services Research Senior Scholar Award:Greg Simon, M.D., investigator at the Center for Health Studies and staff psychiatrist in the Behavioral Health Service at Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.

Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Raymond Cho, M.D., a clinical psychiatry trainee at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; Ayman Fanous, M.D., a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Marmor Award Lecture:Lenore C. Terr, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and private practitioner.

Adolf Meyer Award Lecture:Herbert Pardes, M.D., president and CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital and past president of APA.

Patient Advocacy Award Lecture:David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., former U.S. surgeon general.

Oskar Pfister Award Lecture:David B. Larson, M.D., president and founder of the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality. He died on March 6.

Benjamin Rush Award Lecture: James P. Comer, M.D., Maurice Falk professor of child psychiatry at Yale Child Study Center and founder of the School Development Program.

Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture:Keh-Ming Lin, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles and director of the NIMH/Harbor-UCLA Research Center on the Psychobiology of Ethnicity.

Jeanne M. Spurlock Minority Fellowship Achievement Award: William B. Lawson, M.D., Ph.D., professor, chair, and residency training director of the department of psychiatry at Howard University School of Medicine and chair of the section of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the National Medical Association.

Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture:Carol C. Nadelson, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, former president and CEO of American Psychiatric Press Inc., and the first woman president of APA.

George Tarjan Award Lecture:Pedro Ruiz, M.D., professor and vice chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and APA secretary.

APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture:Marc Galanter, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at New York University.

Wyeth-Ayerst M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship: David H. Brendel, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard University; Francis S. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California at San Francisco. ▪