Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

How to Apply

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.

Nominators of 2018 Visiting Professors
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
2018	Carol Alter, MD, FACLP visiting Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; nominated by Lisa Rosenthal, MD, FACLPHochang (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, FACLPPhilip 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, WASanjeev 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, ILJeff 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, MAJames 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, PATomer T. Levin, MBBS, FACLP visiting Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2012	Mary Ann Cohen, MD, FACLP visiting Olive View-UCLA Medical CenterCatherine 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 sponsorWayne 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 sponsorWayne 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 sponsorTheodore 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 sponsorRoger 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, MDSteven 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 award

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

How the to Apply for the Visiting Professorship Program

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. Applications must be received by April 1.

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. Complete and attach the fill-in-the-blanks Word document for Part 3: Format. Here you provide a detailed listing of specific activities that clearly 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 alloted for each activity. The program duration may be from one to three days. Please be as specific as possible.