The Benjamin Rush Scholar in the History of Psychiatry
The Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry offers the Benjamin Rush scholarship to a highly qualified and motivated incoming psychiatry resident who foresees a future career in scholarship or mental health policy. In addition to normal clinical training, the Rush Scholar will embark on a parallel track of study intended to give this individual expertise in the history of psychiatry, neuroscience and the behavioral sciences. The Rush Scholar will commence these studies at the beginning of the PGY-II year, with "Oxford" style tutorials and readings intended to cover such issues as the history of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, psychiatric professionalization and institutionalization, psychiatry and the law, ethics, the emergence of psychoanalysis and neuroscience, and psychiatry in culture and society. Study will focus on Europe and America from 1800 to the present. Readings of critical primary and secondary sources will be supplemented by discussions with selected nationally renowned mentors, as well as participation in the working groups of Weill Cornell's Institute for the History of Psychiatry. Midway through the third year of residency, the Rush Scholar will choose his/her own course of independent study in a branch of history or mental health policy and will be assigned a mentor to facilitate and guide their research. The Rush Scholar will be expected to complete a publishable paper by the end of residency. The scholarship includes an annual expense account for books, travel, and assorted research related activities. The director of the scholarship is Dr. George Makari. Applicants interested in the Benjamin Rush Scholars program should make their interest known at the time of application to the program.
Selected Faculty
George J. Makari, M.D is Director of the Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell, and Visiting Associate Professor at Rockefeller University. He is also on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and serves on a number of editorial boards including: Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Academic Psychiatry, History of Psychiatry, Psychiatrie, Sciences Humaines, Neurosciences, American Imago, Psychoanalysis and History, and Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Co-editor of the Weill Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry book series, Dr. Makari has won numerous awards and honorary lectureships for his scholarship in the history of psychoanalysis. His history, A Revolution in Mind, on the development and evolution of psychoanalysis in Europe is forthcoming from Harper Collins.
Jack D. Barchas M.D. is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Because of his deep interest in public policy issues, Dr. Barchas chaired the Board on Biobehavioral Science and Mental Disorders of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the Association for Research on Nervous and Mental Disorders, as well as President of the Pasarow Foundation and Director of the Pritzker Network on Depression. Author of several hundred-research papers and editor of a dozen books, Dr. Barchas recently completed an eight-year term as Editor of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Beatrix A. Hamburg, M.D. is DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Co-Director of the Social Medicine and Public Policy Program. She is a past President of the William T. Grant Foundation and has held professorships in psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Hamburg is or has been a member of the New York City Board of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Royal Society of Medicine of London, the Committee on Successful Adolescence of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Carnegie Council on Adolescence. She has served as Expert Consultant for Children and Youth for the World Health Organization, and, in New York State, on the Public Health Council, the Governors Task Force on Life and Law, and the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education. Recipient of many honors and awards, Dr. Hamburg has a research interest in normal adolescent development, adolescent psychopathology, and endocrine-behavior interactions. However, she is most noted for her work on peer counseling, diabetic children and adolescents, the health and mental health status of minority populations, as well as school-based programs for conflict resolution and violence prevention. She is author of two books, Violence in American Schools and, most recently, Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development, a book jointly written with Dr. David Hamburg.
David Hamburg, M.D. is President Emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, DeWitt H. Wallace Distinguished Scholar at the Weill Cornell Medical College, and Distinguished Presidential Adviser on International Affairs, National Academy of Sciences. Formerly Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University, Dr. Hamburg has been John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University and served as President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences as well as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Recipient of the International Peace Academy's 25'th Anniversary Special Award, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Dr. Hamburg is the founder of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, and has served on the Advisory Committee on Medical Research of the World Health Organization as well as, during the Clinton Administration, the Presidents Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Currently, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the UN Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide and Chair of a parallel committee for the European Union, Dr. Hamburg's research contributions have dealt with biological responses and adaptive behavior in stressful circumstances, and with several aspects of human aggression, conflict resolution, and violence prevention. In 2007, Oxford University Press will publish his book, Never Again: Practical Steps toward the Prevention of Genocide.
Nathan Kravis, M.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, as well as Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In addition, Dr. Kravis is currently on the faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and has been an adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychiatry at New York University and Mt. Sinai Hospital, as well as in the English Department at Columbia University. Author of a number of articles in the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry, he serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2005-2007) and is Associate Director of Cornell's Institute for the History of Psychiatry.
Robert Michels, M.D., is Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine, Cornell University, and University Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College. He served as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University from 1991 to 1996. A former member of the Board on Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Dr. Michels is a past President of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American College of Psychiatrists, and the American Association of Chairmen of Departments of Psychiatry. He is a Fellow of The Hastings Center, where he was Secretary from 1972-1977 and a member of their Board of Directors since 1993. n international expert on medical ethics, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Michels is the author of more than 300 scientific articles and is Deputy Editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry. He is or has been a member of several editorial boards including The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychiatry, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research.
Theodore Shapiro, M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry in Pediatrics at the Weill Cornell Medical University and was, until February 2002, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Shapiro has also served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psycho-pharmacology. Also, he served for ten years as Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and was Book Review Editor for North America of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Author of over 200 scholarly papers, Dr. Shapiro has a long-standing and continuing interest in the interaction of language, affect, and communication and childhood. He has written or edited six books in this and related fields.
Rosemary A. Stevens, Ph.D. is a DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar in Social Medicine and Public Policy at Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry. She is also the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor Emeritus in Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Department of History and Sociology of Science and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Among many honors, she has won national awards in the history of medicine, history of public health, and health services research, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences as well as of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Stevens has a strong, abiding interest in American medicine and its history (as well as in organizational and social comparisons between health care in Britain and the United States), and has chaired or been a member of national policy committees on subjects as diverse as national blood policy, for-profit health care, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, alternative medicine, graduate medical education payments, and Medicare as social contract. Dr. Stevens publications include books on the history of medical practice in England, the history of specialization in American medicine, the early implementation of Medicaid, physician migration policy and its implications, and the history of American hospitals. Her current research focuses on the formal organization of specialization in American medicine today.