This award, established in 1988, is given to a psychiatric educator or team of educators to honor excellence in impactful psychiatric education that is further exemplified in an outstanding educational project or program. The award acknowledges innovative and exemplary psychiatric educators for their educational projects or programs—at the medical school, residency and faculty development levels, as well as for programs involved in educating non-psychiatrists and/or the general public about psychiatry.
The awardee will receive a $500 honorarium. The winner will also be invited to give a 30-minute presentation, including Q&A, at the meeting. This presentation is held Friday morning of the meeting.
Nomination Guidelines
Criteria for nomination for the AAP Psychiatric Education Award include evidence of excellence in education that is exemplified in an outstanding education project as described below.
The nominee will be a psychiatric educator recognized for:
innovation or leadership
associate or full professor, chair, dean or equivalent level
long-term, sustained impact on psychiatric education
national and/or international reputation in psychiatric education
The nominee’s recognized education project or curriculum will be recognized for:
balance between innovation and generalizability (e.g., portable or reasonable to “take home”)
impact on psychiatric education evaluation or outcome measures (e.g., satisfaction, change, or other)
Other requirements and information necessary for nomination include:
Nominee (designer of the project/program) must be an AAP member
Nominee’s name, title, institutional affiliation department’s name, address, phone, and email address
Nominee’s curriculum vitae
Project/program title, aim, and description (one page).
Letter from the nominee’s department chair (or his/her designate) detailing a sustained body of work involving educational endeavors, techniques, or innovations as well as education/administrative duties at the local, national and international levels
At least one additional letter of support from other faculty, residents, students, or CME program coordinators is required, but no more than four (4) will be accepted.
Thank you for your interest. The Awards Portal is NOW OPEN! The deadline for submissions for this award is April 1, 2026. Click here to access the Awards Portal. FOR QUESTIONS ONLY, contact Hermioni L. Amonoo, MD, MPP, MPH, Awards Committee Chair, at hermioni_amonoo@dfci.harvard.edu
Award Recipients
* Awards were not distributed in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2024
2025 Patrice Malone, MS, MD, PhD, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY
2023 Robert E. Feinstein, MD, Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Long Island, NY
2022 John Teshima, MEd, MD, FRCPC, University of Toronto "From Personal to Programmatic: Two Tales of Faculty Development"
2021 David A. Ross, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine "At the Interface of Science and Society: Integrating Neuroscience into Modern Psychiatry"
2018 Melissa R. Arbuckle, MD, PhD, Columbia University
2016 Stephen M. Goldfinger, MD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
2015 Avram Mack, MD, FACP, Georgetown University, "The Academic Psychiatrist at the Center of the General Hospital Safety Movement -- a Real and Potential Space"
2014 Michael Travis, MD, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, "Trying to Re-integrate Clinical Psychiatry and Neuroscience"
2013 Geraldine S. Fox, MD, MHPE, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Teaching from the Heart with Personal Stories"
2012 Duke University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences [Crystal White, MD and Andrew Muzyk, PharmD] - A One Year Psychopharmacology Course for Upper Level Psychiatry Residents Utilizing Active-Learning Educational Exercises and a Resident-as-Teacher Model
2011 Susan J. Lieff, MD, MEd, MMan, "A Leadership Tune-up: Paradigms and Practices of Medical Education Leaders"
2010 Patrick O'Neill, MD, “Fear and Loathing in Academic Medicine: An Interactive Exposure to Our New Fiscal Reality”
2009 Lowell Tong, MD, “The Headless Monster, a Seamount and Fish”
2008 Nyapati Raju Rao, MD, “Looking Back and Moving Forward: Observations on IMG Education and Faculty Development by a Psychiatry Educator”
2007 Michele Pato, MD, "What to Learn and What to Teach"
2006 Robert Hales, MD
2005 Barbara Doleshal, MD
2004 Ivan Silver, MD
2003 Priyanthy Weerasekera, MD, “McMaster Postgraduate Psychotherapy Training Program”
2002 Paul Rodenhauser, MD
2001 Debra Klamen, MD
2000 Allan Tasman, MD
1999 Bernard Beitman, MD, “Psychotherapy Training Program”
1998 Susan Block, MD
1997 Ira Glick, MD
1996 Jerald Kay, MD
1995 Michael G. Goldstein, MD, “Physician Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Nicotine Dependence”
1994 David Preven, MD, "New Perspectives on Suicide: '... not to be' a sick (sic) solution, Hamlet needed Help"
1993 Leah Dickstein, MD, “Health Awareness Program”
1992 Jonathan Borus, MD
1991 J. Thomas Ungerleider, MD, “Interactive Teaching Seminar on Substance Abuse for Medical Students”
1990 John Nemiah, MD
1989 Bryce Templeton, MD, “Interaction Analysis System for Interview Evaluation”
1988 Carolyn Robinowitz, MD