Dr. Barbara Milrod Receives Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis from New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Dr. Barbara L. Milrod
Dr. Barbara L. Milrod, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell, received the first juried Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis from the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute this week.
The award, which is accompanied by a $1,000 honorarium, is presented every three years to a living person whose innovative or influential contribution has allowed psychoanalysis to move forward.
Dr. Milrod, who also maintains a private practice specializing in panic disorder and agoraphobia, has expertise in anxiety and mood disorders in adults and children. She has dedicated her career to providing scientific, reliably reproducible evidence demonstrating the efficacy and utility of psychoanalytic forms of treatment. To this end, she became expert in psychotherapy research, specifically in clinical trials and outcome studies. In collaboration with colleagues, Dr. Milrod wrote the first psychoanalytic psychotherapy manual for an Axis I anxiety disorder, panic disorder.
"Dr. Milrod has made a unique contribution to the field of psychoanalysis by developing a specific addition to the treatment of a serious and prevalent disorder by demonstrating to the medical world, the funding world and the research world that psychodynamic treatment is useful and practical," explained Dr. Leon Hoffman, chair of the Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award Committee and co-director of the Pacella Parent Child Center at the Society and Institute. "Her work connects psychoanalysis proper with the research world, is an avenue toward the reintroduction of psychodynamic concepts into medical education, and has achieved the respect of non-psychoanalytic clinicians."
After receiving her medical degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Milrod completed her residency in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan. For the next six years, she maintained positions as an instructor and associate professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and received her psychoanalytic training at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she is currently a Member.
The Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis was established in last year in the name of Dr. Leon Kupferstein, a graduate and past-president of the then New York Psychoanalytic Society (2001 - 2003). Dr. Kupferstein was a dedicated student of Sigmund Freud, but also possessed a firm belief that the art and science of psychoanalysis must move forward and respond to new discoveries about the human condition.
The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the oldest psychoanalytic organization in the Americas, strives to provide the highest level of psychoanalytic training to mental health professionals, promote excellence in psychoanalytic research and offer a range of educational, advisory and affordable therapeutic service programs to the New York City community.
Additional Awards and Honors
Dr. James Bussel, professor of pediatrics, professor of pediatrics in medicine and professor of pediatrics in obstetrics and gynecology, and Dr. David Lyden each received the Medical Breakthrough Award from the Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation for their remarkable research and treatment of children with cancer and blood diseases. The award was presented Nov. 15 at the Foundation's annual Breakthrough Ball at the Plaza Hotel.
Dr. Donald J. D'Amico, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, the Betty Neuwirth Lee and Chilly Professorship in Stem Cell Research and professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell, and Dr. Susanne Binder, adjunct clinical professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell and professor and chairman of the Rudolf Foundation Clinic's Department of Ophthalmology in Vienna, Austria, were both presented with the 2012 Humes Visiting Scholar Award Nov. 15. The award, which promotes the exchange of scholarship between Dr. D'Amico and Dr. Binder's two departments, was presented by Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher on behalf of the American Austrian Foundation.
Dr. Marc Goldstein, the Matthew P. Hardy, PhD Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Urology, professor of urology and professor of reproductive medicine, received the American Society of Reproductive Medicine 2012 Star Award in October in recognition of his presentations for more than 10 successive years at the Society's annual meeting.
Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute, the Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology and professor of neurology and neuroscience, gave the invited Totman Lecture at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Vermont Nov. 8 about "Cadasil, as a paradigm to study small vessel disease of the brain."
Institute for Pediatric Urology at Weill Cornell was chosen in November as the first Comprehensive Center of Excellence in the country for treating children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia by the CARES Foundation, which leads the effort to improve the lives of children with this condition through advancing support, advocacy, education and research. This honor recognizes the Institute as the top place in the country for the medical and surgical treatment of children with this condition.
Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi, chairman of the Department of Surgery and the Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Surgery, gave a special Surgical Grand Rounds lecture on "Surgical Management of Complex Small Bowel Crohn's Disease" at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center Oct. 17.
Dr. Marcus Reidenberg, professor of pharmacology, professor of medicine and professor of public health, chaired the U.S Food and Drug Administration Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee meeting Nov. 9 that recommended the FDA not make the current prescription drug Oxybutynin, used for overactive bladder in women, available over-the-counter. The Committee reviews and evaluate available data concerning the safety and effectiveness of over-the-counter drugs, or any other FDA-regulated product, for use in the treatment of a broad spectrum of human symptoms and diseases.
Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross, the Nathan Cummings Professor of Neurology and professor of neurology and neuroscience, was the keynote speaker at the annual American Physician Scientists Association conference hosted Nov. 17 at Mount Sinai. The Association is a national organization dedicated to addressing the needs of future physician scientists with respect to their training and career development.
Dr. Roger Yurt, the Johnson & Johnson Distinguished Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell and chief of burns, critical care and trauma surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Burn Center, and Burn Center staff received the prestigious 2011 Clinical Research Award at the American Burn Association conference for a research paper published in the Jan.-Feb. 2012 issue of the Journal Burn Care Research about a unique pilot study that showed the benefits of the utilization of Nintendo Wii in burn rehabilitation.
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