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APA's Dodgen selected as Switzer Scholar in rehabilitation policy

Daniel Dodgen, PhD, of APA's Public Policy Office, has been selected as a Switzer Scholar in rehabilitation. He is one of 20 experts chosen from across the nation to participate in a three-day meeting to discuss "Disability policy: issues and implications for the new millennium."

Recommendations made at this year's seminar, which focused on employment policy, will be published in a report for consumers, policy-makers, employers and educators.

Dodgen, a graduate of the University of Southern California, received a doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Houston and practiced as a clinician in Los Angeles before coming to APA two years ago. At APA, he has specialized in public policies related to children, families and people with disabilities.

Dodgen's position at APA also involves developing better communication between psychologists and policy-makers.

The Switzer program was sponsored by the national rehabilitation association and named in memory of Mary E. Switzer, who headed the Rehabilitation Services Administration and was vice president of the World Rehabilitation Fund when she died in 1971.

--J. Volz

Nancy C. Andreasen, PhD, MD, has won the $20,000 1999 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Andreasen, the Andrew H. Woods chair of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, won for her outstanding research contributions to psychology and psychiatry. Her research has focused on exploring the biological basis of human behavior in mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia. She was among the earliest investigators to demonstrate brain abnormalities in people with schizophrenia and mood disorders. In addition, Andreasen was the first investigator to show a relationship between manic-depressive illness and creativity.

Andreasen earned her PhD in psychology from the University of Nebraska in 1963, and went on to get her MD from the University of Iowa in 1970. She is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry.

APA's Lori Valencia Greene has won the Judy Halpern Award from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice "for outstanding service to the reproductive rights movement." Greene is the senior legislative and federal affairs officer in APA's Public Policy Office.

The coalition is honoring Greene for her contributions to the development of the Black Church Initiative--a project that aims to generate dialogue on reproductive health issues between African-American religious leaders and the African-American community. For the past three years, Greene has co-chaired the National Black Religious Summit on Sexuality, which included developing workshops on issues such as HIV/AIDS.

Greene has worked in the Public Policy Office for more than three years, focusing on issues that impact the gay, lesbian and bisexual community, women's issues and ethnic-minority concerns.

APA member Karl Pribham, MD, traveled to his native Czech Republic in October to accept the country's Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Prize, "VIZE 97," recognizing his more than 60 years of outstanding contributions to brain research.

Pribham earned his MD from the University of Chicago in 1941. He practiced neurosurgery in Florida for 10 years and developed the brain research program at the Yerkes Laboratory for Primate Biology. He spent 10 years teaching and doing research at Yale University followed by 30 years at Stanford University as a professor in the departments of psychology and psychiatry.

Pribham currently directs Radford University's Center for Brain Research and Informational Sciences.

Anthony J. Marsella, PhD, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen for his teaching and research contributions to international psychology. Marsella, a professor of psychology and director of the Cultural Research and International Studies program at the University of Hawaii, has studied coping and post-traumatic stress in different ethnic groups. He is currently investigating the psychosocial well-being of immigrants and refugees.

Maj. Elaine Orabona, PhD, has been selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Orabona, who participated in the U.S. Department of Defense Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1996, is the chief of the inpatient mental health unit at Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi.

Orabona, who was been in the Air Force since 1987, functions as a prescribing psychologist at Keesler, where she has been for three years.

St. Louis practitioner Diane Sanford, PhD, has won a clinical excellence award from the National Association for Women's Health (NAWH) for her unique approach to postpartum care for women.

Five years ago, Sanford launched Women's Healthcare Partnership--an interdisciplinary clinical practice that offers comprehensive postpartum health care. Sanford founded the practice with Susan Kendig, a women's health nurse. The practice offers postpartum counseling and health classes, taught jointly by a nurse and a counselor, on topics such as postpartum sexuality, breast-feeding and postpartum depression. All classes emphasize active, self-management of physical and emotional health and effective communication with physicians and other health-care providers, says Sanford. Women's Healthcare Partnership is also developing a CD-ROM series on women's health for women and clinicians.

Sanford received the award at the NAWH 12th Annual Summit on Women's Health in Philadelphia in October.

--J. Chamberlin



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