Guilherme Polanczyk, M.D., Ph.D., Receives AACAP Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder

For Immediate Release

Contact: Rob Grant, Communications Director
202.966.7300, Ext. 119
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Anna Eisenberg, Communications Coordinator
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Washington, D.C., October 11, 2010 - The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is pleased to announce Guilherme Polanczyk, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Un of Sao Paulo Medical School, as the AACAP Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder recipient for his paper, "Implications of Extending the ADHD Age-of-Onset Criterion to Age 12: Results from a Prospectively Studied Birth Cohort," published in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

The AACAP Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder, established through support of the Elaine Schlosser Lewis Fund in 1994. The award of $5,000 is given annually for the best paper published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on attention-deficit disorder, written by a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and published between July 2009 and June 2010. This award is named in memory of Dr. Owen Lewis's late mother, Elaine Schlosser Lewis, who was a teacher and advocate on behalf of children.

Dr. Polanczyk presents "Implications of Extending the ADHD Age-of-Onset Criterion to Age 12: Results from a Prospectively Studied Birth Cohort," during AACAP's 57th Annual Meeting, October 29, 2010 in New York, NY.

For more information on this award, please contact Anna Eisenberg, Communications Coordinator, at 202.966.7300, ext. 154 or aeisenberg@aacap.org.

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