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Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein has been named the fourteenth reipient of the Abraham L. Halpern Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. He will present My 55-Year Journey as a Social Psychiatrist: From Activism to Community Psychiatry to Political Advocacy to Leadership to Retirement and Beyond at the 2026 Humanitarian Award Forum during the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. His lecture will be held on Sunday, May 17th from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. in Room 301 (LL) at the San Francisco Moscone Center.
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Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein has been named the fourteenth reipient of the Abraham L. Halpern Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. He will present My 55-Year Journey as a Social Psychiatrist: From Activism to Community Psychiatry to Political Advocacy to Leadership to Retirement and Beyond at the 2026 Humanitarian Award Forum during the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. His lecture will be held on Sunday, May 17th from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. in Room 301 (LL) at the San Francisco Moscone Center.
Dr. Anita Everett has been named the thirteenth recipient of the Abraham L. Halpern Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. She will present Universal Themes in Social Psychiatry at the 2025 Humanitarian Award Forum during the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Her lecture will be held on Sunday, May 18th from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. in Room 512 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Dr. Steven Moffic, award-winning psychiatrist, writer, and speaker, has been named the twelfth recipient of the Abraham L. Halpern, MD Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. He will present The Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award: Is It Really an Impossible Dream? The Social Psychiatric Integration of Religion, Spirituality and Humanism at the 2024 Humanitarian Forum on Monday, May 6th in New York during the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Carl L. Hart, Chair of the Department of Psychology and the Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University, has been named the tenth recipient of the Abraham L. Halpern, MD Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. He will present Addiction Research and Discrimination: The Need fpr A New Paradigm at the 2022 Humanitarian Forum on Sunday, May 22nd in New Orleans during the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
Stevan Weine, MD, Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health, University of Illinois-Chicago, has been named the ninth recipient of the Abraham L. Halpern, MD Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. He will present Building Hope: Scenes from a Global Mental Health Journey at the 2020 Humanitarian Forum on Saturday morning, April 25th in Philadelphia, at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
Henri Parens, MD has been named the seventh recipient of the Abraham L. Halpern Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. He will receive the award during the 2018 Humanitarian Forum, The Power of The Good, on Sunday, May 6th in New York City, at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
Nada L. Stotland, MD has been chosen as the fifth recipient of the Abraham L. Halpern Humanitarian Award of the American Association for Social Psychiatry. She will receive the award at the AASP Humanitarian Award Forum on Sunday, May 15, 2016 in Atlanta.
