Individuals With Vision Honored at Annual Meeting

Each year APA honors individuals 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 at APA’s 2001 annual meeting in New Orleans in May.

Special Presidential Commendations:Jerome S. Beigler, M.D., professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Donald J. Cohen, M.D., director of the Yale Child Study Center and the Sterling Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale; Stephen Gaghan, recent Academy Award winner for best screenplay for “Traffic”; Peter B. Gruenberg, M.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles and chair of the Los Angeles Police Commission’s task force on police response to people with mental illness; Thomas S. Jensen, M.D., assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Diego, department of psychiatry; Merlin H. Johnson, M.D., professor emeritus in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle; Ronald A. Shellow, M.D., voluntary professor of psychiatry at the University of Miami School of Medicine and former speaker of the APA Assembly; William D. Weitzel, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Kentucky and an instructor at the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Distinguished Service Award:Robert Michels, M.D., the Walsh McDermott University professor of medicine and psychiatry at Cornell University and past president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American College of Psychiatrists, and the American Association of Chairmen of Departments of Psychiatry; U.S. Representative Marge Roukema (R-N.J.), vice chair of the House Financial Services Committee and chair of its Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity; Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology in psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons and the School of Public Health at Columbia University, and chief of the department of clinical-genetic epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Organizational Distinguished Service Award: The Carter Center, established by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, to advance peace and health worldwide. The nonprofit organization works to prevent and resolve conflicts and to enhance freedom and democracy. The Carter Center’s Mental Health Program seeks to destigmatize mental illnesses and improve public policy on issues such as parity for mental health coverage, assuring quality in mental health care, mental health and mental illness in the workplace, and privacy and confidentiality of patient information.

APA Award for Research in Psychiatry:Kenneth L. Davis, M.D., chair of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and director of Mount Sinai’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; Jack M. Gorman, M.D., Lieber professor and vice chair for research in the department of psychiatry at Columbia University and director of the Mental Health Clinical Research Center for Schizophrenia Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, chief scientist of the Lieber Center for Schizophrenia Research at Columbia University and the scientific director of the Phobia, Anxiety, and Stress Disorders Clinic at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

APA/Lilly Resident Research Award:Michael Haberecht, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine; Amir A. Khan, M.D., Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University; Sanjay Mathew, M.D., Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute; Jay H. Shore, M.D., University of Colorado; Jennifer L. Payne, M.D., Johns Hopkins University.

Human Rights Award:Semyon Gluzman, M.D., founder of the Rehabilitation Center for victims of the war and totalitarian regimes in Kiev, former chief of the department of pediatrics in Kiev Hospital, and executive secretary of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry:David Shaffer, M.D., Irving Philips professor of psychiatry and director of child and adolescent psychiatry in the department of psychiatry at Columbia University and president of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry: Raquel E. Gur, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, neurology, and radiology at the University of Pennsylvania; Steven Siegel, M.D., Ph.D., second-year fellow in the division of neuropsychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention:Sandra J. Kaplan, M.D., vice chair of the department of psychiatry for child and adolescent psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., and professor of clinical psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine; Jack C. Westman, M.D., former associate professor of psychiatry and first director of the University of Wisconsin child psychiatry division in 1965.

Robert T. Morse Writers Award: Diana K. Sugg,Baltimore Sun.

Isaac Ray Award: Robert D. Hare, Ph.D., emeritus professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Robert L. Robinson Award: Geoffrey Smith Stephens, special projects director for “Dateline NBC.”

Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry: Elliott M. Stein, M.D., private practitioner in Miami Beach, former president of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and former vice president of the South Florida Psychiatric Society.

APA/SmithKline Beecham Junior Faculty Fellowship for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry: Mitchell S. Nobler, M.D., assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and researcher at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Administrative Psychiatry Award Lecture: Steven M. Mirin, M.D., APA medical director and former president and psychiatrist in chief of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.

2000 Assembly Profile of Courage Award: Jerome R. Lance, M.D., in recognition of his extended period of commitment to his patients and his values while working as a staff psychiatrist for Ventura County Mental Health in California.

Simon Bolivar Award Lecture: F. Moises Gaviria, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and director of the neuropsychiatric division at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a professor of psychiatry in the department of neurosurgery.

Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture: Ezra E.H. Griffith, M.D., professor and deputy chair for clinical affairs in the department of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and professor of African-American Studies at Yale.

Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture: Paul E. Mullen, M.B., professor of forensic psychiatry at Monash University Medical School and clinical director at Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Michele Pathe, M.D., consultant forensic psychiatrist and assistant clinical director at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Rosemary Purcell, a registered psychologist completing her Ph.D. in the department of psychological medicine at Monash University.

Health Services Research Early Career Award:Philip S. Wang, M.D., instructor in medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School and instructor in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Health Services Research Senior Scholar Award: Harold A. Pincus, M.D., executive vice chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director of the RAND Health Institute in Pittsburgh, director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Program on Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and Systems Strategies, and senior consultant to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award: U.S. Representative Charles Norwood (R-Ga.).

Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Angela F. Arnold, M.D., Emory University; Tarique D. Perera, M.D., Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute; Elizabeth A. Walter, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine.

Marmor Award Lecture: Eric R. Kandel, M.D., university professor of physiology and cell biophysics, psychiatry, biochemistry, and molecular biophysics at Columbia University, director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Senior Investigator.

Adolf Meyer Award Lecture:Steven E. Hyman, M.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

Award for Patient Advocacy Lecture: Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D., assistant professor of public policy and of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Oskar Pfister Award Lecture: Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and author of several best-selling books.

Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture: Francis G. Lu, M.D., professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of the Cultural Competence and Diversity Program at San Francisco General Hospital’s department of psychiatry.

Jeanne M. Spurlock Minority Fellowship Achievement Award:Irma J. Bland, M.D., regional administrator and CEO for Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Mental Health.

Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture: Ann Ruth Turkel, M.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute.

George Tarjan Award Lecture: Busharat Ahmad, M.D., former associate professor of ophthalmology at Michigan State University School of Human Medicine.

APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture: Jerald Kay, M.D., professor and chair of the department of psychiatry at Wright State University.

Wyeth-Ayerst M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University; Jaakko Lappalainen, M.D., Ph.D., Yale University; Xiaohong Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University. ▪