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The following is a list of awards and their recipients who were honored at APA's Convocation of Fellows at the 1997 annual meeting in San Diego:
Distinguished Service Award: Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) and his wife, Nancy, and Henry Work, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Organizational Distinguished Service Award: Children's Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.
APA Award for Research in Psychiatry: Martin B. Keller, M.D., the Mary E. Zucker Professor and chair of the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University School of Medicine.
APA Lilly Resident Research Award: John D. McLennan, M.D., of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; Thamilarasi R. Nair, M.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; Srinivasan S. Pillay, M.D., of McLean Hospital, Boston; Jair C. Soares, M.D., of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; and Zhewu Wang, M.D., of the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics.
Alexander Gralnick Award for Research in Schizophrenia: Thomas H. McGlashan, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and chief executive officer at the Yale Psychiatric Institute.
Human Rights Award: Justice Richard J. Goldstone, who served from 1991 to 1994 as prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and from 1994 to 1996 as the prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry: Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Conn.
Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry: Joseph T. Coyle, M.D., the Even S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and chair of the consolidated department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Guochuan Tasi, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Agnes Purcell McGavin Award: David R. Offord, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Robert T. Morse Writers Award: Laura Beil, Sue Goetinck, Ph.D., and Tom Siegfried of The Dallas Morning News. The award honors writers who have made major contributions to the public understanding of psychiatry and mental illness.
Robert L. Robinson Award: Bill Lichtenstein, president of Lichtenstein Creative Media Inc.; June Peoples, a producer for Lichtenstein Creative Media Inc.; Jean Sebastian, director of development and worldwide outreach at Lictenstein Creative Media Inc.; and Fred Rothenberg, a journalist for "Dateline." The Robert L. Robinson Award recognizes radio and television productions that contribute significantly to a better public understanding of psychiatry and mental illness.
Jack Weinberg Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry: Sanford I. Finkel, M.D., a professor and director of geriatric psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School's department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
These are other annual awards made by APA but were not presented at the Convocation or during award lectures (the winners of the award lectures were announced in the April 18 issue).
APA/SmithKline Beecham Junior Faculty Fellowship for Research Development in Biological Psychiatry: David Feifel, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, and Perry F. Renshaw, M.D., Ph.D., research director of the McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center.
Jacob K. Javits Public Service Award: Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.).
Lilly Psychiatric Research Fellowship: Daniel J. Healy, M.D., of the University of Michigan.
Kun-Po Soo Award: Luke I.C. Kim, M.D., Ph.D., senior psychiatrist at Parole Outpatient Clinic, Sacramento, Calif.
George Tarjan Award: S. Arshad Husain, M.D., chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.
Arnold L. van Ameringen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation: William A. Anthony, M.D., director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University.
(Psychiatric News, July 18, 1997)