Administrative Psychiatry Award
Honors as a role model an APA member and administrator of a major mental health program that has expanded the knowledge of management of mental health service delivery systems.
- Deadline: July 1
- Eligibility: APA member
Advancing Minority Mental Health, Awards for
Presented by the APA Foundation – recognizes mental health professionals and/or groups for achievements in addressing disparities in mental health.
- Deadline: March 5
- Eligibility: Open
Berson Senior Psychiatrist Award
Recognizes an APA Life Member or Life Fellow who has made a significant contribution to psychiatry.
- Deadline: March 1
- Eligibility: APA Life Member or Life Fellow
Bland (Irma) Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents
Recognizes excellence in teachers of residency education.
- Deadline: June 1
- Eligibility: APA member
Bolivar (Simon) Award
Honors a prominent advocate for Hispanic mental health.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Person of Hispanic descent
Davis (Carol) Ethics Award
The Carol Davis Ethics Award, established in 2005, promotes the educational role of the ethics process and is presented to an APA member who has authored an outstanding publication on ethics.
- Deadline: November 15
- Eligibility: A publication on ethics of psychiatry, the authors of which include at least one APA member.
Distinguished Service Award
Honors individuals and/or organizations who have contributed exceptional meritorious service to the field of psychiatry and/or APA.
- Deadline: October 31
- Eligibility: Open
District Branch Best Practice Award
Recognizes district branches that have developed functions and innovative programs that can be adapted by other district branches.
- Deadline: March 1
- Eligibility: APA district branch
Fryer (John) Award
Honors an individual whose work has contributed to the improvement of mental health of sexual minority communities.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Open
Fuller (Solomon Carter) Award
Honors a black citizen who has pioneered in an area that has significantly benefited the quality of life of black people.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Person of African descent
Gralnick, MD (Alexander) Award for Research in Schizophrenia
Acknowledges research achievements in the treatment of schizophrenia, emphasizing early diagnosis and treatment and psychosocial aspects of the disease process.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: M.D. or Ph.D.
Guttmacher (Manfred S.) Award
Recognizes an outstanding contribution to the literature of forensic psychiatry presented at any professional meeting or published in the previous year.
- Deadline: June 1
- Eligibility: Open
Hartford-Jeste Award for Future Leader in Geriatric Psychiatry
Honors noteworthy contributions enhancing the field of geriatric psychiatry.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Geriatric psychiatrist with a rank no higher than assistant professor
Health Services Research Award
Honors an early career psychiatrist and a senior APA member for outstanding contributions to the field of psychiatric health services research.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: APA member
Ittleson (Blanche) Award for Research in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry
Recognizes a child psychiatrist or group of investigators for outstanding research pertaining to the mental health of children and adolescents.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: Child and adolescent psychiatrist or group of psychiatric investigators
Javits (Jacob) Award for Public Service
Recognizes a public servant for contributions to the field of mental health.
- Deadline: August 31
- Eligibility: State or federal public servant
Kempf Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry
Recognizes research on the psychobiological, psychological, and/or sociological causes and treatment for schizophrenia. An award goes to a senior researcher and to his/her mentee.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: Researcher and his/her Resident-Fellow mentee
Lima (Bruno) Award in Disaster Psychiatry
Recognizes district branch members for outstanding contributions to the care and understanding of the victims of disasters.
- Deadline: September 8
- Eligibility: APA member
Marmor (Judd) Award
Honors an individual who has contributed to research advancing the biopsychosocial aspects of psychiatry.
- Deadline: September 8
- Eligibility: Open
McGavin (Agnes Purcell) Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Recognizes outstanding career achievement in child and adolescent psychiatry.
- Deadline: August 15
- Eligibility: Child and adolescent psychiatrist
McGavin (Agness Purcell) Award for Prevention
Honors a child and adolescent psychiatrist for outstanding work related to the preventive aspects of emotional disorders of childhood.
- Deadline: August 15
- Eligibility: Child and adolescent psychiatrist
Menolascino (Frank J.) Award
Recognizes an APA member who has made significant contributions to psychiatric services for persons with intellectual developmental disorders/developmental disabilities.
- Deadline: July 1
- Eligibility: APA member
Meyer (Adolph) Lectureship
Honors outstanding research investigators from throughout the world.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: Open
Mrazek (David) Award
The David A. Mrazek Memorial Award recognizes an outstanding clinician in the field of pharmacogenomics.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: Pharmacogenomics clinician
Nasrallah Family Award for Advances in Psychiatric Neuroscience
This award recognizes distinguished contributions to psychiatric neuroscience that have had a major impact on the field and/or altered the practice of psychiatry.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: U.S. or Canadian citizen
Patient Advocacy, Award for
Recognizes a public figure who has promoted the improvement of services for people with mental disorders and substance abuse and who has fought stigma by speaking out about experiences with mental illness and psychiatric treatment.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: Open
Pfister (Oskar) Award
Honors an outstanding contributor in the field of psychiatry and religion.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Open
Pierce (Chester) Human Rights Award
Recognizes the extraordinary efforts of an individual or organization to promote human rights of populations with mental health needs.
- Deadline: June 1
- Eligibility: Individual or organization
Profile of Courage Award
Recognizes an APA member who has taken, at risk to her or his professional and personal status, an ethical stand against intimidating pressure for the good of patients and in keeping with APA's Principles of Medical Ethics With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry.
- Deadline: March 1
- Eligibility: APA member
Psychiatric Services Achievement Awards
Recognizes innovative programs that deliver services to people with mental illness or disabilities, have overcome obstacles, and can serve as models for other programs.
- Deadline: July 31
- Eligibility: U.S. or Canadian programs
Ray (Isaac) Award
Recognizes an individual for outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry or to the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence.
- Deadline: June 1
- Eligibility: Open
Research Mentorship Award
Honors an academic psychiatrist who has fostered the research of of a student, Resident-Fellow Member, or early career psychiatrist in a significant manner through direct mentorship or by the promotion of novel research-oriented training activities.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: Academic psychiatrist
Research in Psychiatry, Award for
Recognizes a single distinguished contribution, a body of work, or a lifetime contribution that has had a significant impact on the field and/or altered the practice of psychiatry.
- Deadline: September 30
- Eligibility: U.S. or Canadian citizen
Resident Recognition Award
Recognizes one outstanding psychiatry resident from every residency program in the U.S. and Canada.
- Deadline: March 31
- Eligibility: APA Resident-Fellow Member
Assembly Resident-Fellow Member (RFM) Mentor Award
Recognizes outstanding mentors by the APA Assembly Committee of Resident-Fellow Members.
- Deadline: March 1
- Eligibility: APA member
Richards (William W. "Bill") Rural Psychiatry Award
Recognizes APA members who have made exemplary contributions to the treatment of patients with mental illness and the practice of psychiatry in rural and/or remote geographic areas.
- Deadline: Discretion of Area Councils
- Eligibility: APA member
Roeske (Nancy C.A.) Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education
Honors APA members who have made outstanding and sustaining contributions to medical student education.
- Deadline: June 1
- Eligibility: APA member
Rush (Benjamin) Lectureship
Recognizes and individual who has achieved renown for his/her contributions to the history of psychiatry.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Open
Shellow (Ronald A.) Award
Recognizes departing members of the Assembly who have served the Assembly far beyond the general standards of service.
- Deadline: March 1
- Eligibility: APA Assembly member
Soo (Kun-Po) Award
Recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions toward understanding the impact and importance of Asian cultural heritage in areas relevant to psychiatry.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Open
Sorum (William) Assembly RFM Award
Honors a Resident-Fellow Member (RFM) or a district branch in each Area for having made the most notable progress in RFM involvement and/or representation in APA.
- Deadline: Discretion of Area Council
- Eligibility: APA Resident-Fellow Member or APA district branch
Spurlock (Jeanne) Minority Fellowship Achievement Award
Acknowledges achievements of former fellows of the Minority Fellowships Program who have made (or are making) significant contributions to the profession and/or the minority community.
- Deadline: June 1
- Eligibility: Past recipient of the APA Minority Fellowship
Symonds (Alexandra) Award
Recognizes a woman psychiatrist who has made significant contributions to promoting women's health and the advancement of women.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Woman psychiatrist
Tarjan (George) Award
Honors a physician who has made significant contributions to the enhancement of the integration of international medical graduates into American psychiatry.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Physician
Vestermark Psychiatry Educator Award
Recognizes an educator who has made outstanding contributions to undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate education and career development in psychiatry.
- Deadline: June 1
- Eligibility: Psychiatric educator
Weinberg (Jack) Memorial Award for Geriatric Psychiatry
Honors a psychiatrist for outstanding work in clinical practice, training, or research in geriatric psychiatry.
- Deadline: August 1
- Eligibility: Psychiatrist
Williams (Warren) Assembly Speakers Award
Recognizes outstanding recent activity in or contributions to the field of psychiatry and mental health.
- Deadline: Discretion of Area Council
- Eligibility: Open