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The Dlin/Fischer Award is presented for significant achievement in clinical research and the best paper submitted for presentation at the annual meeting. There is no application or nomination procedure for the award. Rather, individuals who submit the top-rated abstracts are invited to submit a paper to vie for the award.
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Linda Ganzini, MD, FAPM presented the 2009 Dlin/Fischer Award to Lisa Seyfried, MD. |
The award is named for Barney M. Dlin, MD, FAPM (APM president 1983-84) and H. Keith Fischer, MD, FAPM (APM president 1975-76), corroborators on many research projects and papers.
Barney "Ben" Dlin, who passed away in December 2008 in his 90s, played a significant role in elevating the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine into a leading psychiatric organization and made many important contributions to  psychological aspects of both coronary artery disease and inflammatory bowel disorders.
Dr. Dlin wrote about his first job as a doctor in his autobiography Country Doctor: A Memoir. As a result of his experience, he believed that "every student of medicine should spend time in rural practice . . . no matter what specialty is pursued." Thomas Wise, MD, FAPM provides a tantalizing review of the book in the December 2001 issue of Psychosomatics.
H. Keith Fischer was 79 when he passed away in December 1995. He was clinical professor of psychiatry at Temple University, where he'd been on the faculty for 50 years and where he started the first open psychiatric inpatient unit and the first art therapy program in Pennsylvania. In the January 1996 APM Newsletter, his cohort Barney Dlin wrote a memorial that is reprinted here.
| DLIN/FISCHER AWARD RECIPIENTS |
| 2009 |
Lisa Seyfried, MD
Predictors of Suicide in Older Patients with Dementia |
 2008 Program Chair Maryland Pao presented the 2008 Dlin/Fischer Award to Kennth Larsen, DMin, PhD.
2007 Program Chair Lewis Cohen presented the 2007 Dlin/Fischer Award to Hochang B. Lee, MD |
| 2008 |
Kenneth Larsen, DMin, PhD
A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of Perioperative Administration of Olanzapine to Prevent Postoperative Delirium in Joint Replacement Patients |
| 2007 |
Hochang B. Lee, MD
Longitudinal Association Between Cluster B Personality Disorders and Incident Cardiovascular Diseases Among Community Residents |
| 2006 |
Per Fink, MD, PhD, DMSc, FAPM
A Two-Year Follow-up Study of Hypochondriasis/High Anxiety in Primary Care |
| 2005 |
James R. Rundell, MD, FAPM
Somatoform-Spectrum Diagnoses Among Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Personnel Medically Evaculated from the Theater of Operations |
| 2004 |
Jose R. Maldonado, MD, FAPM, et al
Postoperative Sedation Can Dramatically Alter the Development of
Delirium After Cardiac Surgery |
| 2003 |
Graeme C. Smith, MD, FAPM; Thomas Trauer, PhD
Prospective
Psychosocial Monitoring of Living Kidney
Donors Using the SF-36 Health Survey:
Outcome at 4 and 12 Months |
| 2002 |
Matthew J. Bair, MD, et al
Impact of Pain on Depression Treatment
Efficacy |
| 2001 |
Mary Ellen Olbrisch, PhD; James L.
Levenson, MD, FAPM; et al
Psychosocial
Evaluation of Organ Transplant Candidates:
Comparative Surveys of Process Criteria &
Outcomes 1989 and 2000 |
| 1999 |
Mary Amanda Dew, PhD; Andrea
DiMartini, MD, FAPM; et al
Patterns and
Predictors of Risk for Depressive and Anxiety-Related Disorders During the First Three
Years After Heart Transplantation |
| 1998 |
Jesse R. Fann, et al
Psychiatric Illness and Healthcare Utilization in an HMO Population with Traumatic Injury |
| 1997 |
Peter A. Shapiro, MD, FAPM, et al
Depression After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Effect on Six-Month Outcome |
| 1996 |
Wayne J. Katon, MD, et al
Cost Effectiveness of Collaborative Intervention to Improve the Primary Care Treatment of Major Depression |
| 1995 |
Constantine G. Lyketsos, MD, et al
Changes in Depression as AIDS Develops |
| 1994 |
Wayne J. Katon, MD, et al
Collaborative Management to Achieve Treatment Guidelines: Impact on Depression in Primary Care |
| 1993 |
Hans Steiner, MD, FAPM
Repressive Adaptation in Youth Is Accompanied by Unrecognized Cardiac Arousal in Normal Adolescents |
| 1992 |
William S. Breitbart, MD; S. Passik, PhD; et al
Suicidal Ideation in AIDS: The Roles of Mood, Pain, Social Support, and Disease Status |
| 1991 |
Mark W. Ketterer, PhD, et al
Noctural Awakening, Sleep Latency, and Snoring in Males Undergoing Coronary Angiography and Age/SES Matched Controls |
| 1990 |
James Rundell, MD, et al
Methods Employed by and Length of Knowledge of HIV-Seropositivity of HIV-Infected Suicide Attempters
Mary Alice O'Dowd, MD, et al
More Suicidal Ideation in ARC and HIV+ Patients Than in AIDS Patients Attending a Psychiatry Outpatient Program |
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There is no application or nomination procedure for the Dlin/Fischer award. Rather, four to six individuals who submit the highest mean-ranking abstracts for oral papers at the annual meeting, as rated by the Oral and Poster Paper Subcommittee, are invited to submit a 5–10 page paper to vie for the award.
Finalists may accept or decline the offer to compete. All those who decline or are not selected will present their paper during the regular Paper Session of the meeting. Note that an individual cannot be a finalist for this award if they have received the award within the previous four years.
Finalists are given about four weeks to submit their papers. The most focus in a paper should be on the methods and results to assure scientific rigor. If the paper has already been published, a PDF reprint may be submitted in lieu of a shorter submission.
The papers will be judged by the Research Committee's full membership. The author who submits the winning paper will present the paper as a featured lecture during the annual meeting.
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