Don R. Lipsitt Award for Achievement in Integrated and Collaborative Care
The Don R. Lipsitt Award for Achievement in Integrated and Collaborative Care recognizes a psychiatrist who has demonstrated excellence and innovation in advancing Integrated and Collaborative Care through innovative, evidence-based models of population mental health care delivery. The award honors leadership in evidence-based care delivery through research and scholarship, clinical systems development, and/or education.
Don R. Lipsitt, MD, FACLP, for whom the award is named, was the founding Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry of Mount Auburn Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and as a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, he taught medical students, residents, and primary care physicians for over 50 years. He was the founding editor of two journals for consultation-liaison topics, General Hospital Psychiatry and the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. Presidencies include the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, American Association of General Hospital Psychiatry, and Massachusetts Psychiatric Society.
The award was established in 2014 with support from the Foundation of the ACLP and is named in honor of Don R. Lipsitt, MD, FACLP, a longstanding advocate for the integration of psychiatry and medicine.
AWARD DETAILS
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must demonstrate:
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- Nominees must be psychiatrists.
- Academy membership is not required.
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SELECTION
- Submissions are reviewed by the ACLP Research & Evidence-Based Practice Committee.
RECOGNITION
The recipient receives:
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- Plaque presented at the Annual Meeting
- A $1,000 honorarium
- Complimentary Annual Meeting registration (if not already an ACLP member)
- An invitation to deliver a lecture at the Annual Meeting
TIMELINE
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- Applications open March 16, 2026 and close April 30, 2026.
APPLICATION
Nominations may be submitted by the candidate or by others on their behalf through the online nomination form.
The nominee should have a track record of significant contributions in research and scholarship, clinical systems development, and/or education related to population-based Integrated and Collaborative Care. Leadership in shaping or implementing innovative models of care, and optional contributions to healthcare policy, will also be considered. Population mental health delivery refers to the provision of services that improve mental health at a population level, as opposed to care to individual patients. Collaborative Care is a one example of population mental health delivery that is a team-based, evidence-driven approach in which multidisciplinary providers share responsibility for the health outcomes of an entire patient population. It emphasizes population focus, measurement-guided care, and treat-to-target clinical goals, regardless of individual patient engagement levels.
2026 Award Recipient
Jesse Fann, MD, MPH
Dr. Fann is the Mark N. Tabbutt Endowed Professor for Education in Brain Health and Director of the Clinician Scientist Training Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, where he is also Adjunct Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine and Epidemiology. For more than 25 years, he has served as Medical Director of Psychosocial Oncology at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, where he developed and directs the Integrated Psychosocial Oncology Program, using the collaborative care model to integrate evidence-based psychosocial care into routine cancer care.
He is president of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and serves on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s Distress Management Clinical Practice Guidelines panel. His research focuses on cost-effective strategies to integrate psychosocial care for people with cancer, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other medical conditions, with funding from NIH, PCORI, CDC, the American Cancer Society, and the Department of Education. Dr. Fann earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, his MD from Northwestern University, and his MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Washington, where he also completed his residency and research fellowship training and served as Chief Resident at UW Medical Center.
Previous Award Winners
| 2025 | Joseph Cerimele, MD, MPH |
| 2024 | Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD |
| 2023 | Lorin Scher MD, FACLP |
| 2022 | Elizabeth Lowdermilk, MD |
| 2021 | Jamie Belsito |
| 2020 | David Katzelnick, MD |
| 2019 | Hochang B. Lee, MD, FACLP |
| 2018 | Jane Walker, MBChB, MSc, PhD, MRCPsych |
| 2017 | Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA, FACLP |
| 2016 | Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH |
| 2015 | Michael Sharpe, MD, FACLP |
| 2014 | Jeff Huffman, MD, FACLP |