APA Awards Those Who Made a Difference

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 49th Convocation of Distinguished Fellows:

William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture:Trisha Meili, who survived a near-fatal attack while jogging in Central Park in 1989 and is the author of the best-selling memoir, I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility.

Special Presidential Commendations:Richard Balon, M.D., professor of psychiatry and associate residency training director at Wayne State University School of Medicine; Leah J. Dickstein, M.D., professor emerita of psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine; John F. Greden, M.D., Rachel Upjohn Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical Center, and executive director of the University of Michigan Depression Center; Alfred Herzog, M.D., vice president of medical affairs at Hartford Hospital, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut, and chair of APA's Committee on Patient Safety; JoAnn Macbeth, J.D., APA counsel and partner in the law firm of Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C.; Philip R. Muskin, M.D., chief of consultation-liaison psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and chair of APA's Council on Psychosomatic Medicine; John Oldham, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and executive director of the Institute of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina; Allan Tasman, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville and past president of APA; Cathy Tasman, president of the APA Alliance.

Distinguished Service Award:Thomas Wise, M.D., medical director of behavioral services at Inova Health System in Falls Church, Va., and a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Organizational Distinguished Service Award: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

APA/Lilly Resident Research Award:Eran Chemerinski, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Joseph Holmgren, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at New York University; Soo-Jeong Kim, M.D., a first-year child and adolescent fellow at the University of Chicago; Michael Marcin, M.D., a second-year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Emory University; Marc Miresco, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at McGill University.

Human Rights Award:Carola Eisenberg, M.D., former dean for student affairs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School and one of the founding members of Physicians for Human Rights; Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Maude and Lilian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, professor of psychiatry emeritus at Harvard Medical School; David Lozovsky, M.D., Ph.D., D. Sci., posthumously. Lozovsky was chief of the Section of Biochemistry Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and worked on a U.S. delegation that investigated psychiatric abuses in the former Soviet Union.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry:John March, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of psychiatry and chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentor):John Krystal, M.D., Robert McNeil Jr., a professor of clinical pharmacology and deputy chair for research in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.

APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry (mentee):Daniel Mathalon, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and attending psychiatrist at the VA Connecticut Health Care System.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:Donald Gair, M.D., professor emeritus at Boston University School of Medicine.

Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention:Charles Casat, M.D., director of the Research Behavioral Health Center of the Carolinas HealthCare System.

Isaac Ray Award:Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and coordinator of the law and psychiatry program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry:Kenneth Sakauye, M.D., a professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the geriatric psychiatry program at Louisiana State University Medical Center.

Administrative Psychiatry Award Lecture:Gabriel Koz, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and Eastern Virginia Medical School.

APA Award for Research in Psychiatry:Dilip Jeste, M.D., Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego; Herbert Meltzer, M.D., Bixley/Mays/Johnson professor of psychiatry and pharmacology and director of the Division of Psychopharmacology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

APIRE/AstraZeneca Young Minds in Psychiatry International Awards Program:Raymond Cho, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the STEP clinic; Jose M. Goikolea, M.D., a psychiatrist in the Bipolar Disorders Program of the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona; Stefan Leucht, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Technische Universitat Munchen in Munich; Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu, M.D., a postgraduate student of psychiatry at Makerere University in Uganda; Alexander Niculescu, III, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Indiana University.

APA/Merck & Co. Inc. Early Academic Career Research Award:Eduardo Leonardo, M.D., Ph.D., a research fellow at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Department of Psychiatry; Scott Matthews, M.D., a research fellow at the University of California, San Diego.

APIRE/GlaxoSmithKline Young Faculty Award for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry:Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of bio-engineering and psychiatry at Stanford University; Daniel Saal, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at Emory University.

APIRE/Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Joshua Roffman, M.D., a PGY-4 resident in the Massachusetts General Hospital adult psychiatry training program and chief resident of the consultation-liaison service.

APIRE/Wyeth M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship:Arie Kaffman, M.D., Ph.D., a PGY-4 resident in psychiatry in the neuroscience research training program at Yale University.

2004 Assembly Profile of Courage Award:Richard Kaye, D.O., a psychiatrist in private practice in Suffolk, Va.

Simon Bolivar Award Lecture:Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture:Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D., a professor in Rutgers University's Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.

Carol Davis Ethics Award:David Wahl, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice in Lakewood, Colo., and former member of APA's Ethics Committee; Claire Zilber, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice in Denver and editor of the Colorado Psychiatric Society newsletter; Charles Giannasio, M.D., senior physician at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pa., and former president of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society.

Alexander Gralnick, M.D., Award for Research in Schizophrenia:Anthony Lehman, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture:Robert Simon, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Program in Psychiatry and Law at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award:Eliot Spitzer, New York State attorney general.

Judd Marmor Award Lecture:Thomas Insel, M.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

Frank J. Menolascino Award for Psychiatric Services for Persons With Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities:Nina Cain, M.D., a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Adolf Meyer Award Lecture:Jimmie Holland, M.D., Wayne Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a professor of psychiatry at Cornell University's Weill Medical College.

Award for Patient Advocacy Lecture: Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.).

Oskar Pfister Award Lecture:Armand Nicholi, M.D., an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture:K. Patrick Okura, Ph.D., former national president of the Japanese American Citizens League and former director of the Okura Mental Health Foundation.

Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., Minority Fellowship Achievement Award:Robert Phillips, M.D., medical director of Forensic Consultation Associates Inc.

Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture:Kathryn Zerbe, M.D., professor and vice chair for psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University and director of behavioral medicine in the university's Center for Women's Health.

George Tarjan Award Lecture:Hagop Akiskal, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the International Mood Center at the University of California, San Diego.

Arnold L. Van Ameringen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation:J. Steven Lamberti, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture:Harold Pincus, M.D., professor and executive vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute. ▪