APA Honors Those Who Have Made a Difference

These are the honorees and the awards they received, as listed in the program book of APA's 51st Convocation of Distinguished Fellows:

William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture:John Nash Jr., Ph.D., Nobel laureate and mathematician who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film “A Beautiful Mind.”

Special Presidential Commendations:Ezra Griffith, M.D., deputy chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and a professor of psychiatry and African-American studies; Sheldon Miller, M.D., medical director of Timberline Knolls, a residential treatment center in Chicago; Ahmed Okasha, M.D., professor and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Training and Research in Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry at Ain Shams University in Cairo; Melvin Sabshin, M.D., APA medical director from 1974 to 1997; Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, M.D., president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness; Lucy Ozarin, M.D., M.P.H., distinguished APA fellow for 61 years and frequent author and contributor of History Notes, a column that appears in Psychiatric News.

Distinguished Service Award:James Scully Jr., M.D., APA medical director and CEO; George Vaillant, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Organizational Distinguished Service Award:The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a private, independent institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition.

APA/Lilly Resident Research Award:Xingjia Cui, M.D., M.P.H., a PGY-4psychiatry resident at the University of Rochester; Daniel Eisenberg, M.D., a PGY-4 chief psychiatry resident at Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Beth Israel Medical Center; Amir Garakani, M.D., a PGY-5 psychiatry fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Roger Jou, M.D., M.P.H., a PGY-3 psychiatry resident at Yale University; Manpreet Singh, M.D., a PGY-5 pediatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry resident at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine.

Human Rights Award:Steven Sharfstein, M.D., president and CEO of the Sheppard Pratt Health System and clinical professor and vice chair of psychiatry at the University of Maryland and a past president of APA.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry:Gabrielle Carlson, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Stony Brook University School of Medicine.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentor):James Meador-Woodruff, M.D., Herman E. Drummond Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and editor in chief of Neuropsychopharmacology.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry(mentee):Robert McCullumsmith, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:James Harris Jr., M.D.,professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.

Issac Ray Award:Richard Rosner, M.D., medical director of the Forensic Psychiatry Clinic of Bellevue Hospital, clinical professor of psychiatry, and director of the forensic psychiatry residency program at New York University School of Medicine.

Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry:Hugh Hendrie, M.B., Ch.B, D.Sc., faculty of medicine at the University of Glasgow, a professor of psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, and a research scientist at the Indiana University Center on Aging Research, Regenstrief Institute.

APA Administrative Psychiatry Award Lecture:Jon Gudeman, M.D., director of the Center for Psychotherapy at Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

APA Simon Bolivar Lecture:Francisco Fernandez, M.D., director of the Institute for Research in Psychiatry and interim head of the Child Development Center at the University of South Florida.

APA John Fryer Award Lecture:Lawrence Hartmann, M.D., APA past president and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

APA Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture:David Henderson, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Schizophrenia Diabetes and Weight Reduction Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, director of the clozapine program at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center, associate director of the Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program, and associate director in the Division of International Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

APA Alexander Gralnick, M.D., Award for Research in Schizophrenia:William McFarlane, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont and director of the Center for Psychiatric Research at Maine Medical Center and the Spring Harbor Hospital.

AAPL/APA Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture:Carl Malmquist, M.D., a professor of social psychiatry at the University of Minnesota.

APA Judd Marmor Award Lecture:Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., chair of psychiatry at the University of Iowa, director of the Iowa Neuroimaging Center and of the Mental Health Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa, and editor in chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry from 1992 to 2005.

APA Adolf Meyer Award Lecture:Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D., Lawrence E. Kolb professor and chair of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Lieber Chair and director of the Lieber Center for Schizophrenia Research at Columbia University, and principal investigator of the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness Research Program.

APA Oskar Pfister Award Lecture:William Miller, Ph.D., emeritus distinguished professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of New Mexico.

APA Award for Research in Psychiatry:A. John Rush, M.D., professor of psychiatry and vice chair in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

APA Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture:J. David Kinzie, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University.

APA Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture:Silvia Olarte, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Psychoanalytic Institute at New York Medical College.

APA George Tarjan Award Lecture:Nalini Juthani, M.D., a professor of clinical psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a member of the Psychiatric News Editorial Advisory Board.

APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture:Stephen Scheiber, M.D., former executive vice president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

APA/AACDP Research Mentorship Award:Andrew Krystal, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center.

APA/AstraZeneca Young Minds in Psychiatry International Awards Program:Zubin Bhagwagar, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University and inpatient unit chief and director of the Bipolar Research Clinic at Yale's Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit; Maristela Spanghero, M.D., a clinical researcher at the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil; Carmine Pariante, M.D., senior lecturer and head of the Stress, Psychiatry, and Immunology Laboratory at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London; Rakesh Karmacharya, M.D., Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at McLean Hospital; Marcia Sant'Anna, M.D., a psychiatrist with the Mood Disorders Centre for Excellence in Vancouver; Daniel Smith, M.D., a clinical lecturer in psychological medicine at Cardiff University.

APA/Merck & Co. Inc. Early Academic Career Research Award:Andrew Pieper, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Scott Schobel, M.D., a fellow in schizophrenia research at Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry.

APIRE/Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Tiffany Farchione, M.D., a PGY-5 fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry and chief resident of the research track at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; Christina Mangurian, M.D., chief resident at Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry.

APIRE/Wyeth M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Christopher Pittenger, M.D., Ph.D., chief resident of the Neuroscience Research Training Program, co-director of the Yale OCD Research Clinic, and the McNeil research fellow.

Carol Davis Ethics Award:D. Ray Freebury, M.D., a lecturer of psychoanalytic ethics at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society; L. Alan Wright, M.D., a private practitioner and chair of APA's Ethics Committee from 1996 to 2006.

Health Services Research Early Career Award:Seth Himelhock, M.D., an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; Grayson Norquist, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award:Sen. Richard Codey (D-N.J.), New Jersey State Senate president and champion of those with mental disorders.

Frank J. Menolascino Award for Psychiatric Services for Persons With Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities:Stephen Ruedrich, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and director of the Developmental Disabilities in Psychiatry Program at MetroHealth Medical Center.

Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., Minority Fellowship Achievement Award:Yvonne Ferguson, M.D., a child psychiatrist at Sansum Medical Clinic and the head of the Disaster Mental Health Committee at Cottage Hospital's Department of Psychiatry. ▪