APA Awards Diverse Group Who Advanced MH Field

Each year APA honors individuals and organizations who have worked to improve the lives of people with mental illness through clinical practice, research, public policy, and advocacy work.

These are the honorees and the awards they received, as listed in the program book of APA's 50th Convocation of Distinguished Fellows:

William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture: Pulitzer Prize-winning author David K. Shipler, who reported for the New York Times for 20 years and has written four books.

Special Presidential Commendations:Peter Kramer, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University; Anthony Ng, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University, and chair of APA's Committee on the Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters; Annelle Primm, M.D., M.P.H., director of APA's Department of Minority and National Affairs and associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating legal and clinical barriers to timely and humane treatment for people with severe mental illness.

Distinguished Service Award:Alan Leshner, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and executive publisher of its journal Science; John McIntyre, M.D., chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Unity Health System in Rochester, N.Y., and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester.

Organizational Distinguished Service Award:Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists, which promotes education and advocacy on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental health issues.

APA/Lilly Resident Research Award:Tiffany Farchione, M.D., a PGY-4 child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of Pittsburgh; Fernando Goes, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at Johns Hopkins University; Falk Lohoff, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the University of Pennsylvania; Jeffrey Miller, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at Columbia University; Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, M.D., a PGY-5 child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Human Rights Award:President Jimmy Carter, founder of the Carter Center and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his significant foreign policy accomplishments and work in human rights; former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who has worked for more than three decades to improve the quality of life for people around the world. She created and chairs the Carter Center's Mental Health Task Force; the Carter Center, which was founded in 1982 and works in partnership with Emory University to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry:F. Xavier Castellanos, M.D., Brooke and Daniel Neidich Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, director of research, and director of the Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience at the New York University Child Study Center.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentor):Francine Benes, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Brain Tissue resource Center and the Harvard Psychiatry Clinical Neuroscience Training Program at McLean Hospital; Dolores Malaspina, M.D., M.S.P.H., professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a research psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentee):Rakesh Karmacharya, M.D., Ph.D., chief resident in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program at McLean Hospital; Cheryl Corcoran, M.D., assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:John Schowalter, M.D., Albert J. Solnit Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry and senior research scientist at Yale University.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention:Steven Adelsheim, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, pediatrics, and family and community medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and associate vice chair for outreach partnerships.

Isaac Ray Award:Robert Sadoff, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Studies in Social-Legal Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry:Marion Zucker Goldstein, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at the SUNY Buffalo and Erie County Mental Health Center.

APA Simon Bolivar Award Lecture:Pedro Delgado, M.D., immediate past president of the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry and the Dielmann Chair of Psychiatry and associate dean for faculty development and professionalism at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine.

APA John Freyer Award Lecture:Barbara Gittings, longtime 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.

APA Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture:Milton Hollar, M.D., supervisor in training and mentoring psychiatry residents at the Bronx Psychiatric Center.

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

AAPL/Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture:Liza Gold, M.D., clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and associate director of the residency program in psychiatry and law.

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

Adolf Meyer Award Lecture:Aaron Beck, M.D., University Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of cognitive therapy.

Award for Patient Advocacy Lecture:Loretta Duvall, R.N., nurse and president of the Stamford/Greenwich, Conn., National Alliance on Mental Illness (2002-2005) and the mother of four, three of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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

Award for Research in Psychiatry:Kenneth Wells, M.D., M.P.H., senior scientist at the RAND Corporation, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the David Geffen School of Medicine, and professor of health services at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health.

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

Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture:Albert Gaw, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, medical director of San Francisco's Community Behavioral Health Sciences, and past speaker of APA's Assembly.

Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture:Altha Stewart, M.D., president of SBHA, a behavioral health care consulting group, president of the American Psychiatric Foundation, and medical director of the Women's National Basketball Association.

George Tarjan Award Lecture:Dilip Jeste, M.D., professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and chief of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry. He is also editor in chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

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.

APA/AACDP Research Mentorship Award: Charles Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D.

APA/AstraZeneca Young Minds in Psychiatry International Awards Program:Catherine Abbo, M.B., Ch.B., M. Med., staff psychiatrist heading the forensic unit at Butabika Psychiatric Hospital in Uganda; Sheila Caetano, M.D., a postgraduate student at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; R. Andrew Chambers, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine and director of the Laboratory for Translational Research of Dual-Diagnosis Disorders; Paola Dazzan, M.D., Ph.D., clinical lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and consultant psychiatrist for a first-episode psychosis team; Falk Lohoff, M.D., postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania; E. Serap Monkul, M.D., part-time postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and a student in the master's in affective neuroscience program, which is jointly awarded by the universities of Maastricht and Florence.

APA/Merck & Co. Inc., Early Academic Career Research Award:Karleyton Evans, M.D., clinical research staff member of the Psychiatric Neuroscience Research and Neurotherapeutics Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Arie Kaffman, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Child Study Center at Yale University.

APA/Pfizer Minority Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Kaney Fedovskiy, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at Emory University; Rakesh Karmacharya, M.D., Ph.D., chief resident in the schizophrenia and bipolar disorder program at McLean Hospital.

APIRE/GlaxoSmithKline Young Faculty Award for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry:Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.

APIRE/Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Andrew Pieper, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

APIRE/Wyeth M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Charles Gillespie, M.D., Ph.D., a PGY-4 resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Emory University where he is investigating the psychobiology of vulnerability and resilience to trauma through the study of human genetics as applied to the biology of fear and stress.

Carol Davis Ethics Award:Dewey Walker, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice and staff psychiatrist at the Colorado Physicians Health Program; Claire Zilber, M.D., private practice psychiatrist, co-chair of the Colorado Psychiatric Society (CPS) Ethics Committee, and editor of the CPS Newsletter.

Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award:Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), who is chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging and who led efforts to pass legislation establishing a new youth suicide prevention and early intervention program.

Frank J. Menolascino Award for Psychiatric Services for Persons With Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities:Stephen Durrenberger, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Marshall University School of Medicine and medical director of the Prestera Center in West Virginia.

Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., Minority Fellowship Achievement Award:Michelle Clark, M.D., chief psychiatrist of the South Central Health and Rehabilitation Program AB 2034 Clinic in San Francisco and consultant to the king/Drew Medical Center Oasis Clinic for HIV Disorders and the Bay Area Consortium for Quality Health Care AIDS Minority Health Initiative. ▪