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APA each year honors individuals who have advanced the field of psychiatry through clinical care, 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 1998 annual meeting in Toronto:
Special Presidential Commendations: Robert J. Campbell III, M.D., editor in chief, Psychiatric News; Irving B. Harris, chair, Executive Committee and director, Pittway Corporation; Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical University School of Medicine; Herbert Pardes, M.D., vice president for Health Sciences, dean, faculty of medicine, and chair, department of psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Naomi Rae-Grant, M.D., president, Canadian Academy of Child Psychiatry and professor emerita, University of Western Ontario; Walter Reich, M.D., immediate past director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and senior scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Samuel Ritvo, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, Yale University Child Study Center; David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service and HHS assistant secretary for health; Albert J. Solnit, M.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and senior research scientist, Yale Child Study Center; and Gene L. Usdin, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry emeritus, Louisiana State Medical School.
Distinguished Service Award: George L. Engel, M.D., professor emeritus, departments of medicine and psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Jay Katz, M.D., Elizabeth K. Dollard professor emeritus of law, medicine, and psychiatry and Harvey L. Karp Professorial Lecturer in Law and Psychoanalysis, Yale Law School.
APA Award for Research in Psychiatry: Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D., professor of psychiatry, pharmacology, and radiology and vice chair for research, department of psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Robert W. McCarley, M.D., professor and chair, Harvard University department of psychiatry at Brockton/West Roxbury Veterans' Affairs Medical Center.
APA/Lilly Resident Research Award: Helen C. Kales, M.D., University of Michigan Health Systems; Xiaohua Li, M.D., Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham; Sheila M. Loboprabhu, M.D., University of Michigan Medical Center; Daniel H. Mathalon, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine; and Joel S. Peck, M.D., University of Hawaii Affiliated Hospitals Psychiatric Residency Program.
Francis J. Braceland Award for Public Service: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., deputy assistant secretary for women's health, Department of Health and Human Services.
Alexander Gralnick Award for Research in Schizophrenia: Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D., professor of psychiatry, pharmacology, and radiology and vice chair for research, department of psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Human Rights Award: Jack Weinberg, M.D. (posthumously), former head of the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute. He fought internationally for human rights, condemned the use of psychiatry for political purposes in the former U.S.S.R., worked for equal treatment of mental patients in apartheid-era South Africa, and fostered communication between Israelis and Egyptians following the peace treaty.
Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry: Peter S. Jensen, M.D., associate director, child and adolescent research, and chief, developmental psychopathology research branch, National Institute of Mental Health.
Agnes Purcell McGavin Award: John F. McDermott Jr., M.D., professor emeritus, University of Hawaii School of Medicine.
Robert T. Morse Writers Award: Wray Herbert, U.S. News and World Report, and Sue MacDonald, Cincinnati Enquirer. The award honors popular writers who have contributed to the public understanding of psychiatry and mental illness.
Isaac Ray Award: Richard J. Bonnie, the John S. Battle Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, and director, Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy.
Robert L. Robinson Award: Fred Rothenberg, "Dateline NBC," for his work "On the Fringe," describing the story of television personality Marc Summers, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. The award recognizes television and radio productions that contribute significantly to a better public understanding of psychiatry and mental illness.
Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry: David Blau, M.D., former president of the Boston Society for Gerontologic Psychiatry and former coeditor of the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. He is now a consulting editor of the journal.
The following awards were also made by APA but not presented at the Convocation:
APA/SmithKline Beecham Junior Faculty Fellowship for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry:Linda L. Carpenter, M.D., chief, Mood Disorders Clinic at Butler Hospital; Steven J. Garlow, M.D., Ph.D., researcher in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University; and John F. Neumaier, M.D., Ph.D., director, Molecular Neuroscience Laboratory at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Administrative Psychiatry Award Lecture: Michael J. Vergare, M.D., chair, department of psychiatry, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia.
Simon Bolivar Award Lecture: Javier I. Escobar, M.D., professor and chair, department of psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecture: Deborah B. Prothrow-Stith, M.D., professor of public health practice, Harvard School of Public Health.
Manfred S. Guttmacher Award: Archie Brodsky, B.A., senior research associate, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Harvard Medical School; Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., codirector of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Harvard Medical School; and Larry H. Strasburger, M.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award: U.S. Rep. Garnet Coleman (D-Tex.).
Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Marlene P. Freeman, M.D., Harvard Longwood Psychiatric Residency Training Program.
Adolf Meyer Award: Sir David Paul Goldberg, D.M., director of research and development, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
Award for Patient Advocacy: ur R. Miller, Bruce Bromley Professor of Law, Harvard Medical School.
Oskar Pfister Award: Allen E. Bergin, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, Brigham Young University.
Benjamin Rush Award: Elizabeth Lunbeck, Ph.D., associate professor of history, Princeton University.
Kun-Po Soo Award: Robert O. Pasnau, M.D., assistant dean, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine.
Alexandra Symonds Award: Leah J. Dickstein, M.D., associate chair for academic affairs and professor, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine.
George Tarjan Award: Richard Balon, M.D., professor of psychiatry, department of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Arnold L. Van Ameringen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation: John A. Talbott, M.D., professor and chair, department of psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Seymour D. Vestermark Award for Psychiatric Education Lecture: James H. Shore, M.D., interim chancellor and professor and chair, department of psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.