Residency Training Director Michael Schwartz, MD has been selected by
the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to receive the annual Irma
Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents. The award is presented
to APA members who have made “outstanding and sustaining contributions
to resident education in psychiatry.”
Dr. Schwartz has been the
department’s Director of Residency Training since 1997 and was Director
of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry from 1997 to 2002. He came to
the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in 1983 from the
National Institute on Aging where he published several of the early
reports on the use of PET scanning to study aging, Alzheimer’s disease
and Down Syndrome. He was recognized by the Department of Psychiatry as
Teacher of the Year on two occasions.
In her letter of
nomination, Professor Laura Fochtmann, MD said that for more than a
decade Dr. Schwartz has been an outstanding leader in the education of
the department’s residents. Citing the many lectures and seminars he
delivers, his monthly leadership of clinical case conferences, his
individualized supervision of residents and his coordination of the
residents' weekly journal club, Dr. Fochtmann commended Dr. Schwartz’s
“thoughtful and scholarly approach to clinical care and education.”
The
award will be announced at the annual meeting of the APA in May. It is
named for Irma J. Bland, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who was an
authority on the role of culture and diversity in psychiatry practice
and education.