Award Lecture Explores Recovery in Schizophrenia

Stephen Marder, M.D., is the 2004 recipient of the American Psychiatric Foundation's Alexander Gralnick, M.D., Award for Research in Schizophrenia. He will present the lecture “Recovery in Schizophrenia” in connection with that award on October 9 at APA's 2004 Institute on Psychiatric Services.

Marder is the director of the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center and chair of psychiatry at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in California. In addition, he is professor and vice chair of the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. He is the author or co-author of approximately 200 journal articles and chapters based on research for major medical and psychiatric publications.

This award was established by the Gralnick Foundation to further research on a disease in which Gralnick had a career-long professional interest. He was the founder of the High Point Hospital in Rye Brook, N.Y., where he served as director until 1991 and psychiatrist in chief until his death in 1993.

The lecture will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. All attendees are invited to the reception that will follow immediately afterward to meet and talk informally with Marder.▪