http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/66e6f94076324e526f9e6d82395dfd52.pdf ef73c8b8d1ac73a93f5f80e1c32313b3 PDF Text Text May 30, 19 88 McAipin Award Panel National Mental Health Association 1021 Prince Street Alexandria, VA 22314-2971 Dear Panelists: lam pleased to nominate Professor Alfred M. Freedman for the 19 88 McAlpin Mental Health Research Achievement Award. Few psychiatrists have done as much for the education and training of psychiatric professionals, have encouraged such useful and important academic research, and have provided leadership for the nation’s major scientific societies as has Dr. Freedman. His formal academic curriculum vitae is attached, but I would like to highlight a few aspects of his record which encourage me to make this nomination. Formally, Dr. Freedman was certified in psychiatry and psychoanalysis his after graduation from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1942. He assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Psychiatry at the New York Medical College in 1960, and created an outstanding research and teaching center. His major contributions in academic research are in the treatment of opiate dependence with narcotic antagonists and long-acting opioids; and in his studies of the effects of psychoactive substances on brain functions. joined him as a member of the faculty of the New York Medical College in 1966. At the time, opioid addiction had surfaced as a national problem. Few psychiatrists were willing to undertake the treatment of those afflicted with drug addiction, yet he established the first municipal hospital treatment unit for drug dependence. He supported two separate research programs in addiction, one based on sociological models (under Richard Brotman) and another, based on biological models of narcotic antagonism. His program developed the merits of naloxone, cyclazocine, and naltrexone as treatments for opiate dependence; and broadened the applications of methadone and ievo—acetyimethadyl as narcotic substitutes. He encouraged the collaborative study of chronic hashish users in Athens; and began studies of the central effects of cocaine, when cocaine use was a rare and i occasional dependence. addition to developing a Department and teaching programs for medical students and residents, and encouraging the research studies, he found time to edit the definitive Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, which is now used worldwide. ile also founded and edits the journal integrative Psychiatry. In �Nomination of Alfred M. Freedman, MJ). Page 2 in his residency training programs, he recognized the special needs of women physicians, and he developed the first post~graduate training program for women psychiatrists. lie established a Day-Hospital program for the severe mentally ill; and has always maintained relationships with many community hospitals for the education of their personnel. (i believe that the present program is affiliated with 14 community hospitals). in his support of the studies of is not well known in this which pharmaco-electroencephaiography, a discipline And in his willingness in 1968 to and Japan. country, but well established in Europe when the treatment was outside support studies of convulsive therapy -- at a time the main stream of psychiatric practice and research. That encouragement led his student, Richard Abrams and myself, to become international leaders and authors in ECT. The diversity of his interests is to be seen His reputation in research led to his election as President of the American College of Psychopharmacoiogy 0972), President of the American Psychopathological Association (1971). in 1973, he was elecred President of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Freedman has an enviable record of participation and interest in international psychiatry. He invited leaders from foreign countries to visit the Department and lecture, in the Goldman lecture series that began in the early 19605. He has been an active member of international psychiatric associations and is well known as lecturer, teacher, and friend throughout the psychiatric world, not only in Western countries, but in many developing countries as well. Al has received many awards and much recognition for his leadership, humanity, and support of academic principles in research and teaching. He is a warm, friendly, and encouraging man, with friends throughout the world. His wife, Marcia is a Professor at Columbia University, and both their sons have enviable academic records. Considering the long list of outstanding recipients of the McAlpin Award, am proud to recommend your consideration to add his name to this list. i have discussed this nomination with him, and he has agreed to be considered for the award, and to attend the symposium in Los Angeies in September. His current address and telephone numbers are listed in his 9.x; Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely yours, (V‘ax Fink, 649,-). Professor of Psychiatry 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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