Title: David Mechanic to Receive Rema Lapous Award for 2003
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Section/SPIG: Epidemiology
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| David Mechanic, PhD |
David Mechanic, University Professor and Rene Dubos Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, is the recipient of the Rema Lapouse Award by the Mental Health, Epidemiology, and Statistics Sections of the American Public Health Association. Mechanic, who will be honored at an award ceremony at a special session at the 131st APHA Annual Meeting, will present a special address at a session in his honor on Monday, Nov. 21, 2003 in San Francisco.
Milton Terris established this award in 1972 to honor his wife, Rema Lapouse, a founding member of the Mental Health Section. The award is granted annually to recognize leaders in the field who have made significant contributions to the scientific understanding of the epidemiology and control of mental disorders. Psychiatric epidemiology concerns the etiology, course, outcome, prevention, intervention and rehabilitation of mental illness. Prior awardees have included H. Warren Dunham, Morton Kramer, Lee Robins, Jerome Myers and George Brown.
Internationally known, Mechanic is presently Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research; the Center for Research on the Organization and Financing of Care for the Severely Mentally Ill; the Rutgers Program in Mental Health Services Research Training; and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards Program in Health Policy. Elected to the National Academy of Science in 1991, he has served on numerous national and international committees, advisory panels and task forces. He received his PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and began his career at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to training research scientists, he has authored, coauthored, or edited 23 books and hundreds of articles, chapters and reports, which have appeared in many languages. He is expert on medical sociology, health services research, psychiatric epidemiology, and health policy. David Mechanic, a sociologist, is a worthy selection for the most coveted award in psychiatric epidemiology.