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NARSAD's 22nd Annual NY Awards Dinner
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NARSAD RAISES $1
MILLION FOR BRAIN &
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH AT
22ND
ANNUAL NY AWARDS
DINNER
Inaugural
“Productive Lives”
Award
Presented to
Walgreens SVP
Eight Scientists Win
World’s Leading
Prizes for
Brain & Behavior
Research
Achievements
Photos
by: Charles Manley
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Seated—Connie Lieber, NARSAD
president emeritus;
Sen. Pete Domenici of New
Mexico.
Standing—NARSAD
chairman Steve Lieber, chairman and
senior portfolio manager of
Saxon Woods Advisors, LLC,
general partner of Alpine Woods
Growth Values, L.P; Nancy
Domenici, Kay Lewis, Randy
Lewis,
senior vice president of
logistics for Walgreens, winner
of NARSAD’s inaugural Productive
Lives award
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Raquel Gur, M.D., Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania; Daniel H. Wolf,
M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Eric
Nestler, M.D., Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of
Medicine; Lewis Judd, M.D., University of
California, San Diego; Brenda Milner, CC.,
Ph.D., McGill University; Ruben Gur, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania (in back);
husband-and-wife team E. Jane Costello, Ph.D.,
and
Adrian C.
Angold, M.D.,
Duke University; Herb Pardes, M.D., president
and CEO New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, NARSAD Scientific
Council president; and Today
show contributor, event emcee Gail Saltz,
MD, associate professor of psychiatry at New
York-Presbyterian Hospital,
Weill-Cornell School of Medicine.
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Great Neck, N.Y.—More than 340 patrons gathered in
the search for cures to mental illness this past
Friday evening on October 30, while celebrating the
creation of job opportunities for people with
disabilities at NARSAD’s 22nd annual
Awards Dinner at the Pierre. The event, which raised
$1 million, was highlighted by the presentation of
the organization’s first-ever “Productive Lives”
award to Randy Lewis, senior vice president of
logistics for Walgreens, and award presentations to
eight celebrated researchers for their lifetime
accomplishments in brain and behavior research. Mr.
Lewis was honored for his commitment to providing an
inclusive workplace for people of all abilities,
including those with mental illness.
Presenting the award to Mr. Lewis was Senator Pete
Domenici of New Mexico, who has been instrumental in
helping pass one of the most significant
mental-health bills in U.S. history—The Paul
Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and
Addiction Equity Act of 2008. NARSAD Scientific
Council president Herbert Pardes, M.D., president
and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, made the
presentations to the scientists. Today show
contributor Gail Saltz, MD, associate professor of
psychiatry at
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill-Cornell School
of Medicine, emceed the event.
Researchers and families came together to support
NARSAD, which raises funds to provide grants to
researchers seeking new insight into causes and
possible treatments for mental illnesses that
include schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder,
anxiety disorders such as PTSD, and childhood
disorders like autism.
In addition to the evening’s honorees and
presenters, the evening’s attendees included: NARSAD
Chairman Stephen A. Lieber; the organization’s
President Emeritus Constance C. Lieber; Dean of the
Columbia University Medical Center Lee Goldman,
M.D.; Nobel Prize laureates Eric Kandel, M.D., of
Columbia University, and Paul Greengard, Ph.D., of
Rockefeller University, George Handran, trustee of
the Sidney R. Baer Jr. Foundation; NARSAD Board
Member Lynnda Maria Davis with husband Steven Davis,
Board Chairman of Bob Evans Farms, Inc., and Milton
and Tamar Maltz.
Following is the complete list of the eight NARSAD
2009 prize winners selected by NARSAD’s 116-member
Scientific Council, a volunteer body of leading
experts in mental health research (additional
information is available
on
the NARSAD Web site):
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E. Jane Costello, Ph.D.,
and
Adrian C. Angold, M.D., Duke
University
Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child and
Adolescent Psychiatric Research
For Contributions to Understanding the Development
of
Mental Health Problems:
Psychiatric Disorders Part of Human Condition
Psychological and Behavioral Disorders Can Begin By
Age Two
Hormonal Changes, Low Birthweight Linked to
Depression in
Teen Girls
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Brenda Milner, CC., Ph.D.,
McGill University
Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in
Cognitive Neuroscience
Founder of Cognitive Neuroscience—
Bringing Together Brain & Behavior
“One of the Most Important Neuroscientists That Has
Ever Lived”
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Raquel Gur, M.D., Ph.D., and Ruben Gur, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania
Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in
Schizophrenia Research
For Contributions to Understanding How Gender &
Development Influence Brain Function in Health &
Disease
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Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Falcone Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood
Disorders Research
For Contributions to Discovering How Genes &
Environment Interact to Cause Depression
Leading to New Treatments and Possibly Preventing
Relapse
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Lewis Judd, M.D.,
University of California,
San Diego
Falcone Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood
Disorders Research
For Contributions to Understanding Bipolar Disorder:
Providing a New View: Life Long Impairment vs.
Acute Isolated Episodes,
Dominated by More Depression Than Mania
New Model of Treatment: People and Clinicians
Monitor Moods
In addition, the following prize for outstanding
work in schizophrenia by a “young investigator” will
be presented to:
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Daniel H. Wolf, M.D., Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania
The
Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Prize
For Contributions to Understanding the Social,
Emotional
and Cognitive Deficits In People with Schizophrenia
NARSAD began awarding prizes in 1987, with the
introduction of the Lieber Prize, and over the years
added the additional prizes as a way to recognize
those who have made outstanding contributions to the
advancement of brain science and the improvement of
treatment options for patients.
Since NARSAD began funding research, it has
distributed more than $256 million in grants to
nearly 3,000 scientists at more than 440
universities, medical centers and research
institutes in the United States and 28 other
countries. NARSAD was initially founded as the
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and
Depression and now supports work on all major mental
illnesses, including bipolar disorder, autism, and
anxiety, such as post-traumatic stress and obsessive
compulsive disorders.
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