REACH President to Receive Irving Philips Prevention Award

Given the persisting national shortages of child/adolescent psychiatrists, the US Surgeon General issued an urgent call to train primary care providers (PCPs) to deliver child mental healthcare. 

Because of the REACH Institute’s continuing, and increasingly successful efforts to address this problem, REACH Institute President and CEO Peter S. Jensen, M.D., has been selected for the prestigious Irving Philips Prevention Award, to be given at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Toronto, October, 2011.  

AACAP's Irving Philips Award for Prevention was established in 1993 in honor of Irving Philips, M.D. Dr. Philips served as AACAP President from 1985-1987 and was renowned for his work in the field of prevention. This award recognizes a child and adolescent psychiatrist and AACAP 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. Philips was Dr. Jensen's first mentor and the director of the training program at the University of California - San Francisco where Dr. Jensen received his training in child and adolescent psychiatry.  The Irving Philips Prevention Award is accompanied by the honoree delivering an honorary lecture at AACAP's annual meeting.  Dr. Jensen will present "Using Basic Science to Integrate Child Mental Health Services Into Primary Care," at AACAP's 58th Annual Meeting, October 20, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.