Ilse R. Wiechers, MD, MPP, MHS, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, has been chosen to receive the highly selective Hartford-Jeste Award for Future Leaders in Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association.
The award will be presented to Wiechers at the APA Annual Meeting in Atlanta in May.
Established in 2013, the award recognizes an early-career geriatric psychiatrist who has made noteworthy contributions to geriatric psychiatry through excellence in research, teaching, clinical practice, and community service, and has demonstrated the potential to develop into a leader in the field, according to the APA website.
Wiechers will receive a $1,000 honorarium and a plaque at the annual meeting.
Wiechers chairs the Public Policy Committee for the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP), and is Associate Director at the Northeast Program Evaluation Center in the Office of Mental Health Operations of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
She serves as the National Program Director for the Psychotropic Drug Safety Initiative, a national VA psychopharmacology quality improvement program that aims to improve the safe and effective use of psychiatric medication at VA medical facilities.
Wiechers provides clinical care to older veterans in the Integrated Primary Care Clinic at the VA Medical Center in West Haven, and teaches faculty in the Yale Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship.