Riba Honored for Clinical Work

Michelle Riba, M.D., a past president of APA, was presented with the Outstanding Clinician Award by the University of Michigan last November in recognition of her excellent work within the profession of psychiatry and her leadership at the university where she has taught since 1993.

Riba has also served as president of the Association for Academic Psychiatry and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, and she is the Zone 2 representative to the World Psychiatric Association. She also holds several leadership positions at the University of Michigan—associate chair for integrated medical and psychiatric services in the Department of Psychiatry, director of the PsychOncology Program at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and associate director of the Comprehensive Depression Center and the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research.

Riba has been a leading advocate for psychoncology (a term she prefers to psycho-oncology), and told Psychiatric News she believes the award "recognizes the importance of psychiatric issues for patients with cancer."

APA President Carol Bernstein, M.D., commented, "We are enormously pleased at Michelle's getting this recognition. It also shows once again how much psychiatry contributes to the practice of so many fields of medicine."