Dr. Steven Moffic has been named the twelfth recipient of the Abraham L. Halpern, MD Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. On Monday, May 6th during the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in New York, he will present Is It Really an Impossible Dream? The Social Psychiatric Integration of Religion, Spirituality and Humanism at the 2024 Humanitarian Forum; discussant is Dilip V. Jeste, MD.
H. Steven (Hillel) Moffic, M.D., is an award-winning psychiatrist, educated at the University of Michigan, Yale, and the University of Chicago, who has specialized in the cultural and ethical aspects of psychiatry. A prolific writer and speaker, he received the one-time designation of being a Hero of Public Psychiatry from the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 2002, the intermittently awarded Administrative Psychiatry Award from the APA in 2016, and two awards of appreciation from Jewish Family Services of Milwaukee for pro bono services with them. With the inspiration provided by his muse and wife of 51 years, Rusti, children Stacia and Rabbi Evan, and four grandchildren, he has recently been leading Tikkun Olam advocacy movements on climate instability, burnout, Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism for a better world.
