Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice

The Board of Professional Affairs decided to pause these awards for 2025. APA is reviewing all of its awards and pending the outcome of that review, BPA will make a decision regarding continuing these specific awards. If these awards are resumed in 2026, deadline information will be posted accordingly.

Nominations will be considered for psychologists working in a wide variety of institutional practice settings (e.g. schools, military, state hospitals, Department of Veterans Affairs, etc.).

Awardees receive an honorarium of $1,000 and have the opportunity to participate in a formal presentation of this award during a virtual Awards Ceremony later this year. They may also submit a short video describing their research or other contributions to a broad audience for use on the APA website.

To be eligible, services should have been provided to diverse client groups or patient populations, including but not limited to:

• children/adolescents/adults/older adults

• urban/rural/frontier populations

• minority populations

• persons with serious mental illness will be considered

Contributions may be judged distinguished by virtue of peer recognition, advancement of the public's recognition of psychology as a profession, relevant professional association honors, or other meritorious accomplishments denoting excellence as a practitioner including improvement of institutional service delivery systems or development of psychologically informed public policy.

All nominees must have excellent overall personal and professional reputations. Nominees should not have received disciplinary action from a state board of examiners in psychology and must have no history of ethical violations at the state or national level.

2025

Brigitte Khoury, PhD

2024

Lisa Kathryn Kearney, PhD, ABPP

2023

Sharon Mitchell, PhD

2022

Gayle Iwamasa, PhD, HSPP

2020

Barry A. Hong, PhD, ABPP

2019

Daniel Holland, PhD, MPH, ABPP

2018

Louise A. Douce, PhD

2017

Linda R. Mona, PhD

2016

John E. Carr, PhD

2015

Rosie Phillips Bingham, PhD

2014

Kevin M. McGuinness, PhD

2013

David J. Drummond, PhD 

2012

Michael E. Barnes, PhD

2011

Ronald H. Rozensky, PhD, ABPP

2010

Kathleen M. McNamara, PhD, ABPP, FACP

2009

Eduardo S Morales, PhD

2007

Thomas W. Miller, PhD

2006

Thomas J. Fagan, PhD

2005

Moran T. Sammons, PhD

2004

Rodney R. Baker, PhD

2003

Lt. Col. Frank Budd, PhD

2002

Frank J. Sullivan, PhD

2001

JoAnne L. Pedro-Carroll, PhD

2000

Allan G. Barclay, PhD

1998/9

Gary B. Melton, PhD

1997

Gary B. Mesibov, PhD

1996

Milton F. Shore, PhD
Alice F. Chang, PhD

1995

Laura S. Brown, PhD
Bruce D. Sales, JD, PhD

1992

J. Wilbert Edgerton, PhD
Gerald P. Koocher, PhD

1991

Oliva M. Espin, PhD
Jose Szapocznik, PhD

1990

Henry Tomes, PhD

1989

James Garbarino, PhD

1988

Stephen F. Morin, PhD

1987

Edwin Shneidman, PhD
Lenore Walker, EdD

1986

Patrick H. DeLeon, PhD, JD

1985

Eric Scholper, PhD

1984

Stephen Goldston, EdD

1983

Meredith P. Crawford, PhD

1982

Asher R. Pacht, PhD
Carolyn R. Payton, PhD

1981

Jane W. Kessler, PhD

1980

Nicholas Hobbs, PhD

1979

William A. Hunt, PhD