The Visiting Professorship Program was established in 1998 to promote the understanding and practice of consultation-liaison psychiatry and to increase interest in, and awareness of, consultation-liaison psychiatry.
Visiting Professorship awards — up to $2,500 each — are used to support the travel expenses, lodging, meals, and honorarium for an ACLP member to serve as a visiting professor to a host university, hospital, or medical facility. The faculty sponsor at the host institution must also be a member of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
A limited number of Visiting Professorships are awarded each year. Any university, hospital, or medical facility may apply, although preference is given to programs that support interdisciplinary and/or interdepartmental interactions and institution-wide involvement.
Awards presenter Leo Pozuelo, MD, FACLP, with ACLP members who nominated three of the four recipients of the 2018 Visiting Professor awards: (Left to right) Maria Tiamson-Kassab, MD, FACLP; Emily Holmes, MD, MPH; Lisa Rosenthal, MD, FACLP
| VISITING PROFESSORSHIP AWARDS | |
| 2021 | No awards |
| 2020 | Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, FACLP, visiting University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine; nominated by Henry Weisman, MD Mark Oldham, MD, visiting Stanford University; nominated by Jose Maldonado Terry Rabinowitz, MD, DDS, FACLP, visiting Northwell Health System (Dept Psychiatry)- Donald and Barabara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofsta/Northwell; nominated by Hindi Mermelstein, MD, DFAPA, FACLP Joli Suzuki, MD, visiting University of Illinois at Chicago; nominated by Abhisek Khandai, MS, MD |
| 2019 | David Kroll, MD, visiting LSU/Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Psychiatry Residency Program; nominated by L. Lee Tynes, MD, PhD Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP, visiting University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; nominated by Sarah Laughon, MD Gen Shinozaki, MD, FACLP, visiting Indiana University of Texas Southwestern; nominated by Sherwood Brown, MD, PhD |
| 2018 | Carol Alter, MD, FACLP, visiting Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; nominated by Lisa Rosenthal, MD, FACLP Hochang (Ben) Lee, MD, FACLP, visiting the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; nominated by Andrew Siegel, MD Donald Rosenstein, MD, FACLP, visiting Indiana University School of Medicine; nominated by Emily Holmes, MD, MPH Michael Sharpe, MD, FACLP, visiting the University of California, San Diego; nominated by Maria Tiamson-Kassab, MD, FACLP |
| 2017 | Jesse Fann, MD, FACLP, visiting Stanford University School of Medicine; nominated by José Maldonado, MD, FACLP Philip Muskin, MD, FACLP, visiting University of Iowa; nominated by Gen Shinozaki, MD, FACLP William Sledge, MD, visiting UAB Hospital Center for Psychiatric Medicine; nominated by Rita Patton, MD Jürgen Unützer, MD, visiting Cambridge Health Alliance; nominated by Hsiang Huang, MD, MPH |
| 2016 | Nancy Byatt, DO, MBA, FACLP, visiting University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA Sanjeev Sockalingam, MD, FRCPC, FACLP, visiting Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA, visiting University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2015 | Andrea DiMartini, MD, FACLP, visiting Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL Jeff Huffman, MD, FACLP, visiting Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Christina Wichman, DO, FACLP, visiting Oxford Women’s Centre, Oxford, UK |
| 2014 | Hochang Benjamin Lee, MD, FACLP, visiting Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA James Levenson, MD, FACLP, visiting the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA José Maldonado, MD, FACLP, FACFE, visiting the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| 2013 | Elisabeth J.S. Kunkel, MD, FACLP, visiting Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA Tomer T. Levin, MBBS, FACLP, visiting Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
| 2012 | Mary Ann Cohen, MD, FACLP, visiting Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Catherine Crone, MD, FACLP, visiting the University of Chicago Laura Roberts, MD, FACLP, visiting Oregon Health and Science University Jeffrey, Staab, MD, visiting Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine |
| 2011 | Harvey Chochinov, MD, PhD, FACLP, visiting the Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego; Scott Irwin, MD, PhD, faculty sponsor Wayne Katon, MD, FACLP, visiting the University of Alabama; Richard Kennedy, MD, FACLP, faculty sponsor |
| 2010 | William Breitbart, MD, FACLP, visiting Loyola University Medical Center; Murali Rao, MD, faculty sponsor Wayne Katon, MD, FACLP, visiting Brigham & Women’s Hospital; David Gitlin, MD, FACLP, faculty sponsor Terry Rabinowitz, MD, FACLP, visiting the University of North Carolina; Donald Rosenstein, MD, FACLP, faculty sponsor Linda Worley, MD, FACLP, visiting Thomas Jefferson University; Keira Chism, MD and Madeleine Becker, MD, faculty sponsors |
| 2009 | Kurt Kroenke, MD, visiting Cambridge Health Alliance; Amy Bauer, faculty sponsor Theodore Stern, MD, FACLP, visiting Thomas Jefferson University; Keira Chism, MD and Madeline Becker, MD, faculty sponsors Paula Trzepacz, MD, FACLP, visiting Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; Hochang Lee, MD, faculty sponsor |
| 2008 | Andrea DiMartini, MD, FACLP, visiting Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami Miller, School of Medicine; Jorge Luis Sotelo, MD, FACLP, faculty sponsor Roger G. Kathol, MD, FACLP, visiting Thomas Jefferson University Hospital; Elisabeth J.S. Kunkel, MD, FACLP, faculty sponsor Tomer T. Levin, MD, FACLP, visiting VA New York Harbor Medical Center, New York Campus; Brian D. Bronson, MD, faculty sponsor |
| 2007 | Philip R. Muskin, MD, FACLP, visiting Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, faculty sponsor Andrew J. Roth, MD Steven D. Passik, PhD, visiting Massachusetts General Hospital, faculty sponsor William Pirl, MD, FACLP Joseph S. Weiner, MD, PhD, FACLP, visiting Austin Medical Education Programs/Seton Hospitals, faculty sponsor Lawrence A. Houser, MD |
| 2006 | James L. Levenson, MD, FACLP Michael C. Sharpe, MD, FACLP Harold J. Wain, PhD, FACLP Joseph S. Weiner, MD, PhD, FACLP |
| 2005 | No awards |
| 2004 | Andrew J. Roth, MD, FACLP |
| 2003 | Paula T. Trzepacz, MD, FACLP William R. Yates, MD, FACLP |
| 2002 | Harvey M. Chochinov, MD, PhD, FACLP Francisco Fernandez, MD |
| 2001 | James L. Levenson, MD, FACLP |
| 2000 | Andrea DiMartini, MD, FACLP Wayne J. Katon, MD, FACLP Seth Powsner, MD |
| 1999 | Wayne J. Katon, MD, FACLP Constantine G. Lyketsos, MD, FACLP |
| 1998 | Michael K. Popkin, MD, FACLP Paula T. Trzepacz, MD, FACLP |
Any university, hospital, or medical facility may apply for an ACLP Visiting Professorship grant. Both the faculty sponsor and the Visiting Professor must be a member of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. All applications are reviewed for competitiveness by an ACLP-appointed committee.
ACLP strongly encourages applications for programs that support interdisciplinary and/or interdepartmental interactions and institution-wide involvement. Applications are rated on relevance to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry; overall quality of program design; inclusion of plans for interdepartmental and interdisciplinary programs; and likely impact on the institution and/or community.
Application for the program must be made using the online Visiting Professorship Application. All three parts of the application, described below, must be filled in with as much detail as you can provide.
Three Parts to the Application:
PART 1. Institution and Faculty Sponsor. Identify and describe the institution and the faculty sponsor, who must be a member of ACLP. Indicate your preferred ACLP member as the Visiting Professor, whom you have previously contacted to assure his or her availability and willingness to serve as a Visiting Professor. The Academy reserves the right to name another individual.
PART 2. Goals for the Program at Your Institution. Identify a main topic of interest which the Visiting Professor will address. Topics could be general principles in the evaluation and management of the medically ill (psychiatric assessment, legal issues, ethical issues; psychological responses to illness), psychiatric symptoms and disorders in the medically ill, psychiatric treatment of the medically ill, and issues within specialties and subspecialties (e.g., pain, oncology, pediatrics, organ transplantation, etc.).
Relevant CLP systems topics include setting up or improving a CLP teaching service, providing CLP services in non-academic settings, primary care integration, research in C-L Psychiatry, and C-L Psychiatry Administration (e.g., reimbursement for CLP services).
In addition, provide a brief summary of the background of your department. Describe your goals for the Visiting Professorship Program at your institution and how the Visiting Professor will help you achieve these goals. Justify the need for the Program, and how it will further CLP education in your hospital/community.
PART 3. Format. Download and complete this Word document; have it completed and ready before you start the online application form, as you will be asked to upload it. The form requires you to provide a detailed listing of specific activities that describe what is expected of the Visiting Professor. This should include the types of venues, the composition and size of the anticipated audience, and the time allotted for each activity. The program duration may be from one to three days. Please be as specific as possible.
Suggested presentation formats include:
Disciplines expected to attend might include trainees or faculty from neurology, pain, geriatrics, internal medicine, other medical specialties; social workers, chaplains, nurses, hospital administrators, etc.
The final online entry of the application is to describe how the institution will allocate the $2,500 award — a budget for travel, food, honorarium, etc.