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Past Recipients of the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health

The National Academy of Medicine’s NAM Perspectives health periodical provides a venue for leading health, medical, science, and policy experts to reflect on issues and opportunities important to the advancement of our mission.

2023

Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, President for Academic Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research; Chair, Department of Psychiatry Yale University

Professor, Oxford University; Co-chair, U.K. Government Mental Health Mission

2022

Daniel H. Geschwind, MD, PhD

Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor in Neurology, Psychiatry, and Human Genetics Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor for Precision Health Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment Semel Institute, UCLA

2021

Spero M. Manson, PhD

Director Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health University of Colorado

2020

Stephen Hinshaw, PhD

Professor University of California, Berkeley Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychology University of California, San Francisco

2019

Daniel Weinberger, M.D.

Director and CEO Lieber Institute for Brain Development Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Genetics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

2018

Kenneth B. Wells, MD, MPH

Professor-in-Residence Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

2017

Joseph T. Coyle, MD

Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital

Catherine Lord, PhD

Director, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Pediatrics Weill Cornell Medicine

Matthew State, MD, PhD

Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor Chair of Psychiatry Member, Weill Institute for Neurosciences University of California, San Francisco

2016

Steven E. Hyman, MD

Director Stanley Institute

Robin Murray, FRS

Professor of Psychiatric Research King’s College London

2015

Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD

Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center

Kenneth S. Kendler, MD

Rachel Brown Banks Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry Director, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

2014

Vikram Patel, FMedSci

Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Public Health Foundation of India

2013

William T. Carpenter, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine Maryland Psychiatric Research Center

2012

Huda Akil, PhD and Stanley J. Watson, MD, PhD

Co-Directors Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2011

William E. Bunney, MD

Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine

Ellen Frank, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry Professor of Psychology Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

2010

Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD

Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience and Chair, Department of Neuroscience Director, Friedman Brain Institute Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Charles P. O’Brien, MD, PhD

Kenneth Appel Professor Vice Chair of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

2009

David Mechanic, PhD

Director Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

2008

Paul R. McHugh, MD

University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Professor of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2007

Beatrix Hamburg, MD

DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholars, Department of Psychiatry Weill Cornell Medical College

David Hamburg, MD

DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholars, Department of Psychiatry Weill Cornell Medical College

2006

Jack D. Barchas, MD

Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry Weill Medical College of Cornell University Psychiatrist-in-Chief Weill Cornell Medical Center

2005

Floyd E. Bloom, MD

Chairman of the Department of Neuropharmacology Scripps Research Institute

2004

Albert J. Stunkard, MD

Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus University of Pennsylvania

2003

Aaron T. Beck, MD

University Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania President, Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research

2002

David Satcher, MD, PhD

Director, National Center for Primary Care Morehouse School of Medicine

2001

Michael L. Rutter, MD

Professor of Developmental Psychopathology MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London

Solomon H. Snyder, MD

Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

2000

Rosalynn Carter

Vice Chair, Board of Trustees The Carter Center

1999

Nancy C. Andreasen, MD, PhD

Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry Director, Mental Health Clinical Research Center University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

1998

David Kupfer, MD

Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Director of Research, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

1997

Herbert Pardes, MD

Vice President for Health Sciences, Columbia University Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

1996

Leon Eisenberg, MD

Professor of Social Medicine Emeritus Harvard Medical School

1995

Samuel B. Guze, MD

Spencer T. Olin Professor of Psychiatry Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Barnes and Renard Hospital

1994

Myrna Weissman, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Gerald Klerman, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry Cornell University Medical College

1993

Seymour S. Kety, MD

Senior Scientist, National Institutes of Mental Health Professor of Neuroscience Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

1992

Daniel X. Freedman, MD

Judson Braun Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine