Deadline to Submit: October 25th, 2024
Purpose
The Humanitarian Award is intended to recognize those who have demonstrated service and advocacy for mental illness.
Instructions
- Submit a statement or letter describing the the nominee's service and advocacy for mental illness.
- The Honorific Award Committee will review all nominations and select a recipient.
- The award will be presented by the President of the Society at the Society's Annual Meeting.
- All applications must be submitted on-line.
Previous Recipients
2005 - Michael Phillips - Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center
2006 - The Pritzker Family Fund
2007 - Mike Wallace - CBS News Correspondent
2008 - Andrew Solomon - Author, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
2009 - Margaret Trudeau
2010 - Howard J. Osofsky, MD - Louisiana State University
2011 - Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD - Johns Hopkins
2012 - Honorable Steve Leifman - Miami-Dade County Court
2013 - Laurie Flynn - NAMI
2014 - Patrick Kennedy, Congressman
2015 - Herbert Pardes, MD - New York - Presbyterian
2016 - Bernard Marcus - The Marcus Foundation, Inc.
2017 - The Simons Foundation - New York, NY
2018 - David Satcher, MD, PhD - Morehouse School of Medicine
2019 - Patrick McGorry, MD, PhD - Orygen
2020 - Tami Benton, MD - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2021 - National Alliance on Mental Illness
2022 - Rick Wolthusen, MD, MPP - Duke University Medical Center
2023 - Arash Javanbakht, MD- Wayne State University 2024- Arthur Evans, PhD - American Psychological Association
QUESTIONS
Society of Biological Psychiatry
615.432.0096
sobp@sobp.org