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Carl C. Bell, M.D., president and chief executive officer of the Community Mental Health Council Inc., was honored for his efforts to reduce violence in America, particularly black-on-black violence.
Harvey Bluestone, M.D., who has served as director of the department of psychiatry at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine for 30 years, was honored for his creativity, dedication, and compassion as a community psychiatrist.
Evelyn P. Ivey-Davis, M.D., and V. Terrell Davis, M.D., were honored for their more than 100 years of combined service to state hospital psychiatry, community psychiatry, and psychiatric organizations. Evelyn P. Ivey-Davis, M.D., is a former president of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association and former medical director of the New Jersey state-operated Brisbane Children's Treatment Center. V. Terrell Davis, M.D., was chief of psychiatry at the Wilmington (Del.) Medical Center, where he developed a comprehensive psychiatric service for emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care. Both are founding members of the American College of Psychiatrists.
Alvin Golub was honored for his 13 years of service as executive director of the Washington Psychiatric Society. Golub was deputy executive director for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and helped organize the District of Columbia Coalition for Adequate Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, which worked to enact the earliest nondiscriminatory mental health legislation.
Donald W. Hammersley, M.D., was honored in recognition of his 26 years of service as APA deputy medical director. Hammersley joined the APA staff in June 1961 and retired in January 1988. He directed the Office of Psychiatric Services for many years and was editor of the Hospital and Community Psychiatry Journal (now Psychiatric Services).
Leslie Herz was honored for her years of dedicated service to APA and her leadership within the APA Auxiliary. She was one of the earliest members of the auxiliary and served as president in 1990-91. She was active with the local psychiatric and medical community in Buffalo, N.Y., when her husband, Marvin I. Herz, M.D., chaired the department of psychiatry at the School of Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Zigmond M. Lebensohn, M.D., was recognized for his pioneering work in general hospital psychiatry. Lebensohn is chief emeritus of the department of psychiatry at Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, D.C., and a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Stuart E. Nichols Jr., M.D., was honored for his courage and leadership in the area of gay rights. Nichols is former chief of the Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center. He has been a member of the APA Committee on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues, deputy representative to the APA Assembly on behalf of homosexually identified psychiatrists, president of the Caucus of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Members, and chair of the APA Commission on AIDS.
Robert L. Pyles, M.D., was recognized for his leadership of the psychoanalytic community. He is president-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association and recent past chair of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England. He is also the first president and cofounder of the Coalition for Patient Rights.
Melvin Sabshin, M.D., was honored for his 23 years of service to APA as its medical director. Appointed in September 1974, Sabshin is a distinguished fellow in the Egyptian, Hong Kong, and Royal Australian and New Zealand psychiatric associations and an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the World Federation for Mental Health.
Patricia H. Sharpley, M.D., was recognized for her courage, good humor, and dedicated service to APA in the Assembly and on the Membership Committee. She has been president of the Indiana Psychiatric Society and a representative or deputy representative to the APA Assembly since 1975.
Leonard I. Stein, M.D., director of research and education at the Mental Health Center of Dane County Inc. of Madison, Wis., was recognized for helping to develop a model system of community-based psychiatric care.
(Psychiatric News, July 4, 1997)