Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D.

Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., associate dean for faculty affairs and professor of psychiatry and psychology, is the 2008 recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Leadership Award. This award recognizes innovative research accomplishment and leadership that improve women’s lives and advance health outcomes. She is the founding director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, which was started in 1998 in response to the need for gender-based research. Mazure was also the 2007 recipient of the Marion Spencer Fay Award, given by the National Board for Women in Medicine.