APA Honors Contributors To Mental Health Field

Psychiatrists, film directors, journalists, and researchers are part of an eclectic group of professionals who were honored at APA's 2004 annual meeting in New York in May for their dedication to psychiatry and mental health causes.

Each year APA honors a number of individuals who have worked to improve the lives of people with mental illness in many ways, such as clinical practice, research, and public policy and advocacy work.

These are the honorees and the awards they received, as listed in the program book of APA's 48th Convocation of Distinguished Fellows:

William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture:Tom Wolfe, an author best known for his national best-sellers The Right Stuff, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Bonfire of the Vanities.

Special Presidential Commendations:Martha J. Kirkpatrick, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); John S. McIntyre, M.D., APA past president and Assembly speaker, vice president for behavioral health and chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral health at Unity Health System in Rochester, N.Y; Jessie Nelson, writer, director, and producer of films such as “Corrina, Corrina” and “I Am Sam”; Herbert S. Peyser, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, psychiatric consultant to the Smithers Alcoholism Center of St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, and an APA Assembly representative from the New York County District Branch; Katharine A. Phillips, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Brown Medical School and director of the body dysmorphic disorder program at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I.; Joe Yamamoto, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at UCLA and clinical professor emeritus at the University of Southern California.

Distinguished Service Award:Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., the Andrew H. Woods chair of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry; David Satcher, M.D., the 16th U.S. surgeon general, who completed his term in February 2002 and served as former assistant secretary for health.

Organizational Distinguished Service Award:National Mental Health Association, the country's oldest and largest nonprofit mental health organization, founded by Clifford Beers in 1909.

APA/Lilly Resident Research Award:Li-Shiun Chen, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital; Karl Deisseroth, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at Stanford University; Josette Lindahl, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the University of South Dakota; Michael Rapp, M.D., a PGY-2 psychiatry resident at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Jason Schillerstrom, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

Human Rights Award:Walter Reich, M.D., the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, ethics, and human behavior at George Washington University, for his work to condemn Soviet abuse of psychiatry to suppress political dissent.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry:Laurence L. Greenhill, M.D., the Ruane Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatric Psychopharmacology at Columbia University and director of the New York State research unit of pediatric psychopharmacology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentor):Stephen R. Marder, M.D., director of the Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 22 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, director of the section on psychosis at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentee):Jonathan E. Sherin, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA and staff psychiatrist at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:Clarice J. Kestenbaum, M.D., a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry:Christopher C. Colenda, M.D., M.P.H., dean of the college of medicine at Texas A&M University.

Administrative Psychiatry Award Lecture:Peter F. Buckley, M.D., professor and chair of the department of psychiatry and health behavior at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.

APA Award for Research in Psychiatry:Jack D. Barchas, M.D., the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and chair of the department of psychiatry at the Weill-Cornell University Medical College and psychiatrist in chief at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center of the New York Presbyterian Hospital; J. Christian Gillin, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and co-director, Lab of Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Gillin died in September 2003.

APA/Merck & Co. Inc. Early Academic Career Research Award:Benjamin Flores, M.D., clinical instructor and staff physician in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University Medical Center; Jan Wei Jiang, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center.

APIRE/AstraZeneca Young Minds in Psychiatry International Award:Michael Breakspear, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow at the Brain Dynamics Centre at Westmead Hospital and School of Physics at the University of Sydney; Michael T. Compton, M.D., an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine; Cathryn Galanter, M.D., a postgraduate child psychiatry research fellow at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute; Aysegul Yildiz, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dokuz Eylul Medical School in Izmir, Turkey.

APIRE/GlaxoSmithKline Severe Mental Illness Research Fellowship: Daphne J. Holt, M.D., Ph.D., a research and clinical fellow in the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

APIRE/GlaxoSmithKline Young Faculty Award for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry:D. Jeffrey Newport, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine and associate director of the Emory Women's Mental Health Program.

APIRE/Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Konasale M.R. Prasad, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Steven H. Snyderman, M.D., a research fellow and assistant instructor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia.

APIRE/Wyeth M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Eric Wexler, M.D., Ph.D., a research fellow at the Palo Alto VA/Stanford University.

2003 Assembly Profile of Courage Award:Harold I. Eist, M.D., former APA president and private practitioner in Maryland who successfully resisted attempts by the Maryland Board of Registration in Medicine to obtain one of his patient's medical records; Daniel S. Shrager, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice in Pittsburgh who fought a court battle to keep his patient's medical records from a health insurance company.

Simon Bolivar Award Lecture:Andres J. Pumariega, M.D., professor and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn., and director of the university's Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody.

Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture:Phyllis Harrison-Ross, M.D., emeritus professor of psychiatry and behavioral health services at the New York Medical College, emeritus attending psychiatrist and chief of psychiatry at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York City, and founder and managing partner of Black Psychiatrists of Greater New York and Associates.

Alexander Gralnick, M.D., Award for Research in Schizophrenia:Stephen R. Marder, M.D., director of the Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 22 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, director of the section on psychosis of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and a professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture:Margaret G. Spinelli, M.D., an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of the Maternal Mental Health Program at New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award:Sen. Harry Reid (D), the minority whip and senator from Nevada.

Judd Marmor Award Lecture:David Spiegel, M.D., the Jack, Lulu, and Sam Wilson Professor of Medicine, associate chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, director of the Psychosocial Research Laboratory, and medical director of the Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine.

Frank J. Menolascino Award for Psychiatric Services for Persons With Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities:Edwin J. Mikkelsen, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Adolf Meyer Award Lecture:Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and a professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, an associate editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, and joint editor in chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Patient Advocacy Award Lecture:Jerilyn Ross, M.A., director of the Ross Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders and president and CEO of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

Oskar Pfister Award Lecture:Elizabeth S. Bowman, M.D., a clinical professor of neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Benjamin Rush Award Lecture:David Mechanic, Ph.D., the Rene Dubos University Professor of Behavioral Sciences and founder and director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture:Salman Akhtar, M.D., a lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College.

Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., Minority Fellowship Achievement Award:Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture:Malkah T. Notman, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

George Tarjan Award Lecture:Norma C. Panahon, M.D., medical director of outpatient services at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at SUNY Buffalo.

Arnold L. van Ameringen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation:Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture:Eugene V. Beresin, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital child and adolescent psychiatry residency training program. ▪