
Award Recipients

2022

Robert Kohn, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University School of Medicine
Dr. Kohn has been an active member of SSPC, having hosted the Annual Meeting on three occasions, and he was a Board member from 2004 to 2015. Dr. Kohn has been the Treasurer for the World Psychiatric Association Transcultural Psychiatry Section since 2015. He also has been a Consultant to the Pan American Health Organization – WHO since 1996 and has been the Director of the Brown University World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research on Psychiatric Epidemiology and Mental Health since 2015.

2022

Ruth S. Shim, MD, MPH
Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry
Associate Dean, Diverse and Inclusive Education
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine

Sarah Y. Vinson, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Morehouse School of Medicine

2022

Jim Boehnlein, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Oregon Health and Science University
Associate Director for Education
VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

2022
No award this year

2022

Nealie Ngo
Nealie Ngo for Healing the Whole Family: An Educational Graphic Novel about Intergenerational Trauma in an Asian-American Family
Nealie Ngo graduated from Yale in 2018 with a B.A. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health. She is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences and is currently taking a gap year to complete a Masters of Public Health at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She plans to specialize in Psychiatry and is interested in cultural psychiatry, child/adolescent psychiatry, and college mental health. Nealie’s interest in culture and mental health began while completing her senior thesis at Yale. She created The Body Image, a graphic novel about the global history of the ideal female body and its significance for contemporary body image narratives and those struggling with eating disorders. This project sparked her interest in merging medicine, public health, and art, and she has continued her efforts, presenting her graphic novel domestically and internationally in the UK and Japan. Nealie currently works as a Graphic Artist and Research Consultant at Yale Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether), a research group focused on AAPI mental health. She has created culturally-sensitive comics in English and Chinese about depression, “mentalization” (imagining yourself in someone else’s shoes), and choosing non-traditional college majors in AAPI families. Her most recent work, a collaboration with Grace Chiang, author of New York Times’ Healing the Whole Family, is a graphic novel depicting intergenerational trauma in an AAPI family. Nealie’s other works include comics about climate change and health, religious spirituality and mental health, and AAPI COVID-19 stories.
Past Award Recipients
The Lifetime Achievement Award
2021 – Roberto Lewis-Fernandez
2020 – Francis Lu
2019 – Ted Lo
2018 – Joan Koss-Chioino
2017 – Steven Wolin
2016 – Armando Favazza
2015 – James Boehnlein
2014 – Jim Jaranson
2013 – No Award given
2012 – Renato Alarcon
2011 – Spiro Manson
2010 – Laurence Kirmayer
2009 – No Award Given
2008 – Wen-Shing Tseng
2007 – Joe Yamamoto
2006 – Ed Foulks
2005 – Ray Prince
2004 – Bob Kraus
2003 – Joe Westermeyer
2002 – Ron Wintrob
The Creative Scholarship Award
2021 – H. Steven Moffic
2020 – Sam Okpaku
2019 – Claire Pain
2018 – No Award Given
2017 – Robert Lemelson
2016 – Brandon Kohrt
2015 – Russell Lim
2014 – Roberto Lewis-Fernandez
2013 – No Award Given
2012 – Kamaldeep Bhui and Dinesh Bhugra
2011 – James Griffith
2010 – Richard Mollica for his book “Healing Invisible Wounds – Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World”
2009 – No Award Given
2008 – Francis Lu for the DVD “The Culture of Emotions”
2007 – Joe Yamamoto
2006 – Laurence Kirmayer for his body of scholarly work at McGill University
2005 – No Award Given
2004 – Armando Favazza for his book “PsychoBible”
2003 – Dave Kinzie for his body of scholarly work from the Intercultural Psychiatric Program at Oregon Health and Science University
2002 – Wen-Shing Tseng for his book “The Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry”
The Liz Kramer Service Award
2021 – Bonnie Kaiser
2020 – Connie Cummings
2019 – Liz Kramer
The Charles Hughes Fellowship
2021 – No Award Given
2020 – Siyabulela Mkabile for “Traditional healers’ explanatory models of intellectual disability in Cape Town”
2019 – Katherine Pizarro for “Exploring the social-ecology of parental monitoring in Peru”
2018 – Ali Giusto for “Observational measurement of family functioning for a low-resource setting – Adaptation and feasibility in a Kenyan sample”
2017 – Elsa Friis for “Family-Based Adolescent Maltreatment in Kenya – Development of a Culturally Grounded Model”
2016 – Hunter Keys for “Cholera, stigma, and the policy tangle in the Dominican Republic – an ethnography and policy analysis of Haitian migrant experiences”
2015 – Alyssa Ramírez-Stege for “Culture in Context – evaluating the utility of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in Mexican Mental Health Patients”
The John Spiegel Fellowship
2021 – Alec Terrana for ‘“Foundations of Somali resiliency: Insights from a non-Western perspective”
2020 – Jonathan Gomez for ‘“They are coming to hurt me,’ Cries for Structurally Competent Psychiatric Care from Central American Migrants in the United States”
2020 – Andrea Mendiola for “Cultural Formulation in a Case of Spiritual Possession – Religion, Dissociation, and Culture”
2018 – Monika Karazja for “Are the arguments against global mental health and its perceived cultural insensitivity true?”
2017 – Eden Almasude for “Postpartum Depression and Psychosis in Refugee Women – A Transcultural Approach”
2016 – Saikiko Yamaguchi for “Rethinking the concept of “kokoro no kea” (care for mind) for victims of disaster in Japan”
2015 – Minoo Ramanathan