APA Awards Achievements in Mental Health Field

William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture: Carrie Fisher, actress and author of four novels, including Post-cards From the Edge. Fisher, who has bipolar illness, is a longtime mental health advocate who has testified in the Senate to urge legislators to increase government funding for medications for people with mental illness.

Special Presidential Commendations: Howard Osofsky, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans; Joy Osofsky, Ph.D., a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, head of the Division of Pediatric Mental Health, and co-director of the Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center; Daniel Winstead, M.D., director of the American Board of Family Medicine, president of the Louisiana Psychiatric Medical Association, president of the Southern Psychiatric Society, and president-elect of the American College of Psychiatrists; Robert Hirschfield, M.D., Titus H. Harris Chair, Harry K. Davis Professor, and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; David Kupfer, M.D., Thomas Detre Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and chair of APA's DSM-5 Task Force; Martin Keller, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and Carolyn Robinowitz, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University, APA past president, and interim editor in chief of Psychiatric News.

Distinguished Service Award: Jack Barchas, M.D., Barklie McKee Professor and chair of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, psychiatrist in chief at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, Payne Whitney Clinic, and president of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education; Lois Talbot Flaherty, M.D., editor of Adolescent Psychiatry, The Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry; and Pedro Ruiz, M.D., a professor, executive vice chair, and director of clinical programs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, past APA president, and president-elect of the World Psychiatric Association.

Organizational Distinguished Service Award: The Pritzker Family Philanthropic Foundation, which was established more than 30 years ago to address the stigma surrounding mental illness and the negative biases toward the field of psychiatry. In addition, to boost network and consortium activities in psychiatric research, the foundation helped establish a wider network of psychiatric researchers and facilitated their collaboration.

APA/Lilly Resident Research Award: Joanne Byars, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the University of Iowa; Vegas Coleman, M.D., a senior fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine; Amit Etkin, M.D., Ph.D., a PGY-4 resident and acting assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University; Nathan Kolla, M.D., a PGY-5 psychiatry resident and Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto; Aliza Wingo, M.D., a graduate of the Emory University Department of Psychiatry residency program.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentor): Robert Zipursky, M.D., a professor and Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychiatry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, and chief of psychiatry and vice president of mental health and addiction services at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentee): Michael Kiang, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry: Ellen Leibenluft, M.D., senior investigator and chief of the Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in the Emotion and Development Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health and deputy editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Thomas Anders, M.D., distinguished professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences (emeritus) at the University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. Institute and immediate past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Isaac Ray Award: Ezra Griffith, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, deputy chair for diversity and organizational ethics in the Department of Psychiatry, and professor of African-American studies in the Yale College and graduate school.

Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry: Anand Kumar, M.D., a professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and associate editor of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

APA Administrative Psychiatry Award Lecture: Arthur Lazarus, M.D., senior director of global clinical development for AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.

APA Simon Bolivar Lecture: Maria Oquendo, M.D., a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, training director for the psychiatry residency program, and vice chair of education in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

APA John Fryer Award Lecture: Evan Wolfson, executive director and founder of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality worldwide.

APA Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture: Donna Norris, M.D., a child, adolescent, and forensic psychiatrist in private practice in Massachusetts and chair of the Ethics Committee of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (see Norris Recounts Struggles of Black Psychiatrists).

AAPL/APA Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture: Robert Simon, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry, director of the program in psychiatry and law at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Suburban Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Kenneth Tardiff, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of psychiatry and public health at the Payne Whitney Clinic and the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

APA Adolf Meyer Award Lecture: Solomon Snyder, M.D., distinguished service professor of neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.

APA Oskar Pfister Award Lecture: George Vaillant, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service.

APA Patient Advocacy Award Lecture: Kenneth Duckworth, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

APA Award for Research in Psychiatry: Thomas McGlashan, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.

APA Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture: Richard Mollica, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at Massachusetts General Hospital.

APA Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture: Judith Herman, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital.

APA George Tarjan Award Lecture: Mantosh Dewan, M.D., SUNY distinguished service professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.

APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture: Glen Gabbard, M.D., Brown Foundation chair of psychoanalysis, professor of psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine, and training and supervising analyst at the Houston/Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.

APA/AACDP Research Mentorship Award: B. Timothy Walsh, M.D., the William and Joy Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and director of the Division of Clinical Therapeutics at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

APA/AstraZeneca Young Minds in Psychiatry International Awards Program: David Gavin, M.D., a research assistant professor at the Psychiatric Institute at the University of Chicago; Benjamin Goldstein, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and director of the Youth Bipolar Disorder Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

APIRE/Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Ted Satterthwaite, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the University of Pennsylvania; David Hong, M.D., a clinical fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry training at Stanford University.

Carol Davis Ethics Award: Mark Komrad, M.D., a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland and a member of the clinical and teaching staff of Sheppard Pratt Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital; Debbie Weaver, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Health Services Research Early Career Award: Lisa Dixon, M.D., director of the Division of Services Research and associate director for mental illness research at VA Capitol Health Care.

Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and a member of the Select Intelligence Committee, the Commerce Committee, and the Finance Committee.

Frank J. Menolascino Award for Psychiatric Services for Persons With Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities: Julie Gentile, M.D., an associate professor at Wright State University's Department of Psychiatry and the project director and primary investigator for Ohio's Coordinating Center of Excellence in Dual Diagnosis.

Profile of Courage Award: Wayne Fenton, M.D., who before his death in 2006 was medical director of Chestnut Lodge and director of the Division of Adult Translational Research and associate director for clinical affairs at NIMH.

Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., Minority Fellowship Achievement Award: Ikwunga Wonodi, M.D., an associate professor and director of the First Episode Psychosis Clinic at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.