Mary E. Schwab-Stone, M.D.

Among those receiving Seton Elm-Ivy Awards in April for their contributions to relations between the city and the university was Mary E. Schwab-Stone, M.D., the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study Center and associate professor of psychology. Schwab-Stone helped to develop a clinical consultation service for New Haven’s Special Education Department, which evaluates between 35 and 40 children and youths each year, offers the department advice on program and policy issues and trains new generations of child psychiatrists on how to work in and with schools. Since 1992 she has developed and led the Social and Health Assessment Program, which oversees the assessment of mental health symptoms, competencies, Problem behaviors and risk factors in the middle and high school population.