Two Researchers Honored

Ross Baldessarini, M.D., and Leonardo Tondo, M.D., were honored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention with its 2004 research award. They were recognized for their studies demonstrating that long-term treatment with lithium is associated with striking reductions in rates of suicidal acts and fatalities in patients with bipolar disorder or major depression.

Baldessarini directs McLean Hospital's Psychopharmacology Program and International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research. Tondo is a research psychiatrist in the same McLean program. ▪