1960s - Barchas

Jack D. Barchas, M.D. ’61, the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and chair of psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and psychiatrist-in-chief at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, received the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Award for Research in May at its annual meeting in New York. This honor, the oldest and most prestigious of the APA’s research awards, was shared with J. Christian Gillin, M.D., who received the award posthumously. Barchas’ Award for Research lecture was titled “Adventures in Psychiatric Research: From Neurobiology to Public Policy.”