We are proud of the commitment and talents of our researchers and clinicians. The work has many inherent rewards. In addition, however, our faculty members are often recognized both professionally in their field and in the public eye. We are pleased to share a few such recent accolades with you, as well as praise for www.aboutourkids.org.
Faculty Honors
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Recent Honors
Founder and Director of NYU Child Study Center Honored at Annual AACAP Ceremonies
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has awarded Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., the Irving Philips Award for Prevention, its highest honor, for his dedication and outstanding achievements in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. This award recognizes a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Academy member who has made significant contributions in a lifetime career or single seminal work to the prevention of mental illness in children and adolescents.
Dr. Koplewicz founded the NYU Child Study Center in 1997 with a mission, based on his own vision, to improve child mental health by expanding scientific knowledge of child and adolescent disorders, delivering evidence-based clinical care, and translating and disseminating new scientifically sound information to mental health professionals, pediatricians, educators, parents and policy makers. Under the leadership of Dr. Koplewicz, the NYU Child Study Center is now recognized as a world-renowned center for child and adolescent psychiatric care.
As Senior Vice President and Vice Dean for External Affairs of the NYU Medical Center, Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospitals Center, Dr. Koplewicz spearheads multiple aspects of prevention, research and treatment. In addition, his leadership as Director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI), has resulted in a $10 million allocation for capital improvements to NKI in Governor Spitzer's budget as well as funds for 15 new research scientists in child and adolescent mental health.
