Psychiatr News August 4, 2006
Volume 41, Number 15, page 17
© 2006 American Psychiatric Association
APA Awards Diverse Group Who Advanced MH Field
Eve Bender
Those honored by APA at its 2006 annual meeting include a former U.S.
president and dedicated researchers and clinicians who have contributed
significantly to the field of psychiatry and mental health.
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 50th Convocation of Distinguished Fellows:
William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture: Pulitzer
Prize-winning author David K. Shipler, who reported for the New
York Times for 20 years and has written four books.
Special Presidential Commendations: Peter Kramer, M.D.,
clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University;
Anthony Ng, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed
Services University of Health Sciences, assistant clinical professor of
psychiatry at George Washington University, and chair of APA's Committee on
the Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters; Annelle Primm, M.D., M.P.H.,
director of APA's Department of Minority and National Affairs and associate
professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; the
Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to
eliminating legal and clinical barriers to timely and humane treatment for
people with severe mental illness.
Distinguished Service Award: Alan Leshner, Ph.D., chief
executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and executive publisher of its journal Science; John McIntyre, M.D.,
chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Unity
Health System in Rochester, N.Y., and clinical professor of psychiatry at the
University of Rochester.
Organizational Distinguished Service Award: Association of Gay
and Lesbian Psychiatrists, which promotes education and advocacy on
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental health issues.
APA/Lilly Resident Research Award: Tiffany Farchione, M.D.,
a PGY-4 child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of
Pittsburgh; Fernando Goes, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at Johns
Hopkins University; Falk Lohoff, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at
the University of Pennsylvania; Jeffrey Miller, M.D., a PGY-4
psychiatry resident at Columbia University; Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele,
M.D., a PGY-5 child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.
Human Rights Award: President Jimmy Carter, founder of the
Carter Center and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his significant
foreign policy accomplishments and work in human rights; former first lady
Rosalynn Carter, who has worked for more than three decades to improve
the quality of life for people around the world. She created and chairs the
Carter Center's Mental Health Task Force; the Carter Center, which
was founded in 1982 and works in partnership with Emory University to advance
human rights and alleviate human suffering.
Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry: F.
Xavier Castellanos, M.D., Brooke and Daniel Neidich Professor of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, director of research, and director of the Institute
for Pediatric Neuroscience at the New York University Child Study Center.
APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological
Psychiatry (mentor): Francine Benes, M.D., Ph.D., professor of
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Brain Tissue
resource Center and the Harvard Psychiatry Clinical Neuroscience Training
Program at McLean Hospital; Dolores Malaspina, M.D., M.S.P.H.,
professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a research psychiatrist at
New York State Psychiatric Institute.
APIRE/Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological
Psychiatry (mentee): Rakesh Karmacharya, M.D., Ph.D., chief
resident in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program at McLean Hospital;
Cheryl Corcoran, M.D., assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at
Columbia University and research psychiatrist at the New York State
Psychiatric Institute.
Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: John Schowalter, M.D., Albert J.
Solnit Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry and senior research scientist at
Yale University.
Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention: Steven Adelsheim,
M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, pediatrics, and family and
community medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and
associate vice chair for outreach partnerships.
Isaac Ray Award: Robert Sadoff, M.D., clinical professor of
psychiatry and director of the Center for Studies in Social-Legal Psychiatry
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry: Marion
Zucker Goldstein, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the State University
of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and director of the Division of Geriatric
Psychiatry at the SUNY Buffalo and Erie County Mental Health Center.
APA Simon Bolivar Award Lecture: Pedro Delgado, M.D.,
immediate past president of the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry and
the Dielmann Chair of Psychiatry and associate dean for faculty development
and professionalism at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio School of Medicine.
APA John Freyer Award Lecture: Barbara Gittings, longtime
gay activist and founder of the New York chapter of the lesbian organization,
Daughters of Bilitis; Franklin Kameny, Ph.D., who has fought for the
civil rights of gay people since the 1950s and served as commissioner of the
D.C. Commission on Human Rights and drafted the text of the D.C. Anti-Sodomy
Law Repeal Bill, which was enacted in 1993.
APA Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture: Milton Hollar,
M.D., supervisor in training and mentoring psychiatry residents at the
Bronx Psychiatric Center.
Alexander Gralnick, M.D., Award for Research in Schizophrenia:
Gerard Hogarty, M.S.W., professor emeritus of psychiatry at the
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center.
AAPL/Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture: Liza Gold, M.D.,
clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of
Medicine and associate director of the residency program in psychiatry and
law.
Judd Marmor Award Lecture: Kenneth Kendler, M.D., director
of the Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics.
Adolf Meyer Award Lecture: Aaron Beck, M.D., University
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and founder
of cognitive therapy.
Award for Patient Advocacy Lecture: Loretta Duvall, R.N.,
nurse and president of the Stamford/Greenwich, Conn., National Alliance on
Mental Illness (2002-2005) and the mother of four, three of whom were
diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Oskar Pfister Award Lecture: Ned Cassem, M.D., a
consultation psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Award for Research in Psychiatry: Kenneth Wells, M.D.,
M.P.H., senior scientist at the RAND Corporation, professor of psychiatry
and behavioral science at the David Geffen School of Medicine, and professor
of health services at the University of California at Los Angeles School of
Public Health.
Benjamin Rush Award Lecture: Leon Eisenberg, M.D.,
professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School.
Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture: Albert Gaw, M.D., clinical
professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco,
medical director of San Francisco's Community Behavioral Health Sciences, and
past speaker of APA's Assembly.
Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture: Altha Stewart, M.D.,
president of SBHA, a behavioral health care consulting group, president of the
American Psychiatric Foundation, and medical director of the Women's National
Basketball Association.
George Tarjan Award Lecture: Dilip Jeste, M.D., professor
of psychiatry and neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine, director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research
on Aging, and chief of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry. He is also editor
in chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture: Charles
Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., Reunette W. Harris Professor and chair of the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of
Medicine.
APA/AACDP Research Mentorship Award: Charles Nemeroff, M.D.,
Ph.D.
APA/AstraZeneca Young Minds in Psychiatry International Awards
Program: Catherine Abbo, M.B., Ch.B., M. Med., staff psychiatrist
heading the forensic unit at Butabika Psychiatric Hospital in Uganda;
Sheila Caetano, M.D., a postgraduate student at the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; R. Andrew Chambers,
M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the Indiana University School
of Medicine and director of the Laboratory for Translational Research of
Dual-Diagnosis Disorders; Paola Dazzan, M.D., Ph.D., clinical
lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and consultant psychiatrist
for a first-episode psychosis team; Falk Lohoff, M.D., postdoctoral
fellow in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania; E. Serap Monkul,
M.D., part-time postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio and a student in the master's in
affective neuroscience program, which is jointly awarded by the universities
of Maastricht and Florence.
APA/Merck & Co. Inc., Early Academic Career Research Award:
Karleyton Evans, M.D., clinical research staff member of the
Psychiatric Neuroscience Research and Neurotherapeutics Division at the
Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard
Medical School; Arie Kaffman, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the
Department of Psychiatry and Child Study Center at Yale University.
APA/Pfizer Minority Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Kaney
Fedovskiy, M.D., a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at Emory University;
Rakesh Karmacharya, M.D., Ph.D., chief resident in the schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder program at McLean Hospital.
APIRE/GlaxoSmithKline Young Faculty Award for Research Development in
Biological Psychiatry: Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., assistant
professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.
APIRE/Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Andrew Pieper,
M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center.
APIRE/Wyeth M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Charles
Gillespie, M.D., Ph.D., a PGY-4 resident in the Department of Psychiatry
at Emory University where he is investigating the psychobiology of
vulnerability and resilience to trauma through the study of human genetics as
applied to the biology of fear and stress.
Carol Davis Ethics Award: Dewey Walker, M.D., a
psychiatrist in private practice and staff psychiatrist at the Colorado
Physicians Health Program; Claire Zilber, M.D., private practice
psychiatrist, co-chair of the Colorado Psychiatric Society (CPS) Ethics
Committee, and editor of the CPS Newsletter.
Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award: Sen. Gordon Smith
(R-Ore.), who is chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging and who
led efforts to pass legislation establishing a new youth suicide prevention
and early intervention program.
Frank J. Menolascino Award for Psychiatric Services for Persons With
Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities: Stephen Durrenberger,
M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Marshall University School of
Medicine and medical director of the Prestera Center in West Virginia.
Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., Minority Fellowship Achievement Award:
Michelle Clark, M.D., chief psychiatrist of the South Central Health
and Rehabilitation Program AB 2034 Clinic in San Francisco and consultant to
the king/Drew Medical Center Oasis Clinic for HIV Disorders and the Bay Area
Consortium for Quality Health Care AIDS Minority Health Initiative. 
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