Each year APA honors individuals who have advanced the field of psychiatry through their clinical practices, research, public policy, and advocacy.

The following is a list of awards and their recipients who were recognized at APA’s Convocation of Fellows in May at the 2000 annual meeting in Chicago.

• Special Presidential Commendations: James C. Bozzuto, M.D., chair of the Connecticut Psychiatric Association and director of psychotherapy education at the University of Connecticut department of psychiatry; Joseph T. English, M.D., chair of psychiatry at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center and professor of psychiatry and associate dean at New York Medical College; Enoch Gordis, M.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; Jimmie C. Holland, M.D., chair of the psychiatry department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and professor and vice chair of the department of psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College; Carol C. Nadelson, M.D., editor-in-chief, president, and CEO of American Psychiatric Press Inc.; Paul H. Ornstein, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry and professor emeritus of psychoanalysis at the University of Cincinnati; Anna Ornstein, M.D., professor emeritus of child psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati; Donald J. Scherl, M.D., president emeritus of State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn and vice chair emeritus of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health.

• Distinguished Service Award: Floyd E. Bloom, M.D., chair of the department of neuropharmacology at the Scripps Research Institute; Robert Coles, M.D., research scientist for Harvard University Health Services and professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard Medical School; U.S. Senator Paul D. Wellstone (D-Minn.).

• Organizational Distinguished Service Award: The Louisiana Mental Health Reform Coalition for helping to establish a comprehensive, community-based system of care for adults and children with serious mental disorders, as well as for its advocacy training; Suicide Awareness/Voices of Education for its work in suicide prevention, education, and awareness campaigns.

• APA Award for Research in Psychiatry: Dennis S. Charney, M.D., professor of psychiatry and deputy chair of academic and scientific affairs at the Yale University School of Medicine; Charles P. O’Brien, M.D., Ph.D., chief of psychiatry at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, professor and vice chair of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Studies of Addiction.

• APA/Lilly Resident Research Award: Gerard G. Gagne Jr., M.D., Brown University School of Medicine; Wei "Jan" Jiang, M.D., Duke University Medical Center; H. Florence Seung Kim, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine; Stanislav I. Pavlovsky, M.D., Ph.D., Loyola University Medical Center; Eyal Shemesh, M.D., Mount Sinai Medical Center.

• Frances J. Braceland Award for Public Service: Nada L. Stotland, M.D., chair of psychiatry at Illinois Masonic Medical Center and a professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at Rush Medical College, and speaker-elect of the APA Assembly.

• Alexander Gralnick Award for Research in Schizophrenia: Timothy J. Crow, MB, BS, Ph.D., Oxford University.

• Human Rights Award: Abraham L. Halpern, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at New York Medical College; Professor Lars Jacobsson, former head of the department of psychiatry at Umea University Hospital.

• Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry: Daniel S. Pine, M.D., associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.

• Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry: Jonathon D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychology and director of the center for the study of brain, mind, and behavior at Princeton University and professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh; David A. Lewis, M.D., professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh and associate director for basic research at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; Jeffrey A. Liebermann, M.D., professor of psychiatry, pharmacology, and radiology and vice chair of psychiatry research at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Raymond Cho, M.D., M.Sc., Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; Christine E. Marx, M.D., M.A., assistant professor at the University of North Carolina; Joseph N. Pierri, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention: Donald J. Cohen, M.D., director of the Yale Child Study Center and professor of child psychiatry, pediatrics, and psychology at the Yale University School of Medicine; Jerry M. Wiener, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry and pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine.

• Robert T. Morse Writers Award: Janet Filips, Register Guardian; Cindy Lange-Kubick, Lincoln Journal Star.

• Issac Ray Award: Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., codirector of the program in psychiatry and law, Massachusetts Mental Health Center.

• Robert L. Robinson Award: Carol Blakeslee-Collin, producer for the health policy unit at PBS’s "The NewsHour"; Susan Dentzer, on-air correspondent for "The NewsHour’s" health policy unit.

• Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry: Gary W. Small, M.D., Parlow-Solomon professor of aging, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, and director of the UCLA Center on aging.

The following APA awards were given to recipients at different times:

• APA/SmithKline Beecham Junior Faculty Fellowship for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry: Sarah H. "Holly" Hollingsworth Lisanby, M.D., director of the transcranial magnetic stimulation laboratory at Columbia University; E. Christopher Muly, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Emory University; Jair T. Soares, M.D., director of the neurochemical brain imaging laboratory at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

• 1999 Assembly Profile of Courage Award: Noel T. Drury, M.D., for his efforts to protect the rights of psychiatric care for citizens in the state of Montana.

• Simon Bolivar Award Lecture: Rodrigo A. Muñoz, M.D., past president of APA and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and medical director of the day treatment program at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in San Diego.

• Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture: Kweise Mfume, president and chief executive officer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

• Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Lecture: Paul S. Applebaum, M.D., vice president of APA, A.F. Zeleznik distinguished professor of psychiatry, chair of psychiatry, and director of the law and psychiatry program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and director of forensic training and research in the law and psychiatry program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

• Health Services Research Early Career Award: Benjamin G. Druss, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of psychiatry and public health at Yale University; Alexander S. Young, M.D., M.S.H.S., assistant professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and associate director of the VA Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center in the Veterans’ Healthcare Network of Southern California and Nevada.

• Health Services Research Senior Scholar Award: Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D., director of the VA’s Northeast program evaluation center, director of the evaluation division of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), director of the division of mental health services and outcomes research, and professor of psychiatry and public health at Yale University.

• Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award: Helen Thomson (D-Davis), assistant speaker pro-tem of the California Assembly and chair of the Assembly’s select committee on mental health.

• Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Anna Lembke, M.D., Stanford University; Carla Mendez-Buso, M.D., University of Pennsylvania.

• Marmor Award Lecture: Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., director of the department of neuroscience and distinguished service professor of neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.

• 1999 Frank Menolascino Award for Psychiatric Services for Persons with Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities: Ludwik S. Szymanski, M.D., associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.

• Adolf Meyer Award Lecture: Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D., chief of the clinical brain disorders branch of the intramural research program at the National Institute of Mental Health.

• Award for Patient Advocacy Lecture: George McGovern, former U.S. Senator and past Democratic nominee for president.

• Oskar Pfister Award Lecture: Professor Paul Ricoer, professor emeritus of the University of Paris and the University of Chicago. The award is given to honor outstanding contributions in the field of psychiatry and religion.

• Benjamin Rush Award Lecture: Ronald L. Numbers, Ph.D., professor of history of science and medicine and chair of the department of history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Kun-Po Soo Award Lecture: Eng-Kung Yeh, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at Taipei Medical College and clinical professor of psychiatry at National Taiwan University.

• Jeanne M. Spurlock Minority Fellowship Achievement Award: The family of Jeanne M. Spurlock, M.D., in honor of her outstanding contributions to psychiatry and the APA minority fellowships.

• Alexandra Symonds Award Lecture: Nada L. Stotland, M.D., chair of psychiatry at Illinois Masonic Medical Center and a professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at Rush Medical College and speaker-elect of the APA Assembly.

• George Tarjan Award Lecture: Jambur V. Ananth, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, director of the psychopharmacology unit and clinical director of adult psychiatric services at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Jeanne M. Spurlock, M.D., who died November 25, 1999. She was a former APA deputy medical director and director of the APA Office of Minority/National Affairs.

• Arnold L. Van Ameringen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Leona L. Bachrach, Ph.D., associate dean of the William A. Keese School of Continuing Education, Asbury Methodist Village, Gaithersburg, Md.

• APA/NIMH Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award Lecture: Leah H. Dickstein, M.D., professor and associate chair for academic affairs and director of the division of attitudinal and behavioral sciences at University of Louisville School of Medicine.

• Wyeth-Ayerst M.D./Ph.D. Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Joshua Berman, M.D., Ph.D., New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Idil Cavus, M.D., Ph.D., Yale University; Steven Siegel, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.