The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2005 AACAP Presidential Scholar Awards.
For immediate release:
August 26, 2005
Contact:
Jim Wood, Director Development and Communications
202.966.7300, ext. 120, jwood@aacap.org
WASHINGTON, DC—The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2005 AACAP Presidential Scholar Awards. Nominated by their Program or Training Directors, the awardees will receive a stipend to support a one-week tutorial to study with a leading AACAP member. The recipients also receive funding to attend the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Joint Annual Meeting in Toronto, October 18-23, 2005.
The following people have been selected as the 2005 Presidential Scholars:
Administration
Ayesha Mian, M.D., University of Texas at Houston
Forensics
R. Gregg Dwyer, M.D., University of South Carolina
Public Policy
Joel V. Oberstar, M.D., University of Minnesota Medical School
Research
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, M.D., University of Chicago
Guido Frank, M.D., University of California, San Diego
Representing over 7,500 child and adolescent psychiatrists nationwide, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is the leading authority on children’s mental health. AACAP members actively research, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and their families.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is the leading authority on children’s mental health. AACAP members actively research, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and their families.
Our Facts for Families, available free of charge on the AACAP website, provide concise and up-to-date information on a wide array of issues relating to children’s mental health. Written in a simple, straightforward manner, these 88 one-page fact sheets are valuable to anyone raising or working with children. In addition, the AACAP routinely refers the media to expert spokespeople on child and adolescent issues, and sponsors The Campaign for America’s Kids – an initiative designed to fund an Advocacy Institute for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, with the goal of mental health for all children.
AACAP Mission: The Mission of the AACAP is the promotion of mentally healthy children, adolescents and families through research, training, advocacy, prevention, comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, peer support and collaboration.
