APA Honors Those Who Have Advanced MH Field

At APA's Institute on Psychiatric Services (IPS) each year, APA bestows awards upon those who through their work, have improved the lives of those with mental illness. Each of the awardees presents an award lecture to IPS attendees.

At the 2005 IPS in San Diego last October, there were four awards presented to five individuals. These are the awards, recipients, and lectures presented at the meeting:

APA's Research in Psychiatry Award:Herbert Meltzer, M.D., Bixler/Mays/Johnson Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, director of the Division of Psychopharmacology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, chair of the International Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project, and director of the schizophrenia program of Centerstone Mental Health System in Nashville. Meltzer spoke about algorithms for the treatment of schizophrenia. Dilip Jeste, M.D., Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, director of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and distinguished professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the University of California at San Diego and VA Healthcare System. Jeste delivered a lecture titled, “Schizophrenia and Aging: Separating Facts From Fiction.”

American Psychiatric Foundation's Alexander Gralnick Award for Research in Schizophrenia:Anthony Lehman, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Lehman spoke about evidence-based treatment for people with schizophrenia.

APA's Adolf Meyer Award:Jimmie Holland, M.D., Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Holland's lecture was titled “Integrating Psychiatry Into Oncology: Changing Clinical Practice.”

APA's Solomon Carter Fuller Award:Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D., professor at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and author of several books, including Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience and Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons. Boyd-Franklin spoke about mental health treatment of African-American clients and families.

In addition, APA presented its annual Psychiatric Services Achievement Awards at the 2005 IPS to innovative programs that deliver services to people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, or those who have surmounted certain obstacles (Psychiatric News, November 18, 2005). ▪