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Clinicians, Others Honored by APA At Institute

Published Online:15 Dec 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.41.24.0015a

At its 2006 Institute on Psychiatric Services in New York City, APA recognized a number of individuals for outstanding work that has led to improving the lives of people with mental illness. Here are the names of the honorees and the awards they received. All entailed the presentation of a lecture.

APF Alexander Gralnick, M.D., Award for Research in Schizophrenia:Gerald Hogarty, M.S.W., posthumously. Hogarty was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

APA's John E. Fryer, M.D., Award:Barbara Gittings, who is a long-time gay activist and founder of the New York chapter of the lesbian organization Daughters of Bilitis; Franklin Kameny, Ph.D., who has fought for the civil rights of gay people since the 1950s and served as commissioner of the D.C. Commission on Human Rights and drafted the text of the D.C. Anti-Sodomy Law Repeal Bill, which was enacted in 1993.

Judd Marmor Award Lecture:Kenneth Kendler, M.D., director of the Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics.

APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture:Charles Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., Reunette W. Harris Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine.

Benjamin Rush Award Lecture:Leon Eisenberg, M.D., professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School.

Oskar Pfister Award Lecture:Ned Cassem, M.D., a consultation psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. ▪