Eleanor and Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award

The Eleanor and Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award is the Academy's highest honor. It is presented to a member who has demonstrated distinctive achievements in C-L/PM training, research, clinical practice, and leadership.

Dr. Thomas P. Hackett, from MGH Psychiatry History

The award was established in 1988 to honor Thomas P. Hackett, Jr., MD, FAPM, professor and chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital 1974-1988 and president of APM 1987-88. Dr. Hackett was a long-time leader in the field of C-L psychiatry. He died of a heart attack at age 59, two months after he took office as president of APM. The first Hackett award was presented in 1989 to Edwin H. Cassem, MD, FAPM, who also succeeded Dr. Hackett as chief of psychiatry at MGH, 1989-2000.

In 2009 the award was renamed to include Dr. Hackett's wife, Eleanor, who passed away of leukemia in April 2009. "Ellie" had presented the award at the annual meeting almost every year since its inception. She received APM's Special Recognition Award in 2003.

HACKETT AWARD RECIPIENTS   2009 Francis Creed, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych   2008   Theodore A. Stern, MD, FAPM   2007 Frederik J. Huyse, MD, PhD, FAPM   2006 Russell Noyes, Jr., MD, FAPM   2005 Richard Mayou, MD   2004 Joel E. Dimsdale, MD   2003 Wayne J. Katon, MD, FAPM   2002 James J. Strain, MD, FAPM   2001 Michael K. Popkin, MD, FAPM   2000 Don R. Lipsitt, MD   1999 Thomas N. Wise, MD, FAPM   1998 James S. Eaton, Jr., MD, FAPM   1997 Alan Stoudemire , MD , FAPM   1996 George B. Murray, MD, FAPM   1995 Donald S. Kornfeld, MD, FAPM   1994 Jimmie C. Holland , MD, FAPM   1993 Norman B. Levy, MD, FAPM   1992 Avery D. Weisman, MD   1991 Zbigniew J. Lipowski, MD   1990 W. Alwyn Lishman, MD, DSc     1989 Edwin H. Cassem, MD, FAPM   Frederik J. Huyse, MD, PhD, FAPM received the award from Mrs. Hackett in 2007, in Amelia Island, Florida.

James Levenson presented the 2009 Hackett Award to Francis Creed, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych at the Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. Eleanor Hackett at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Miami with the recipients of the last and first award she presented: to Theodore Stern (2008) and Edwin "Ned" Cassem (1989).   To recommend a member for the Hackett Award, please e-mail the name of your nominee with the reasons for your nomination directly to the chair of the Fellowship & Awards Subcommittee by April 1.

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