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Introduction to the Salmon Lecture
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Introduction to the Salmon Lecture Thomas William Salmon, MD (1876–1927) directed psychiatric services at Ellis Island for the U.S. Public Health Service, was medical director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, and served as director of psychiatry for the American forces in France in World War I. He was Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, played a critical role in persuading New York State to establish its Psychiatric Institute at the Columbia University Medical Center, and was the first president of the American Psychiatric Association who had not been superintendent of a mental hospital. Following his death, The New York Academy of Medicine established the Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene, which has sponsored an annual lecture in his name since Adolph Meyer delivered the first one in 1932. The Salmon Committee includes eight members of the ARNMD Board of Trustees. The Salmon Lecture generally occurs on the weekend of the ARNMD meeting, and when the topic is relevant, is often presented on the occasion of the meeting. The 69th Salmon Lecture was given by Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, the Rachel Brown Banks Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Human Genetics at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. His paper was considered particularly appropriate for Clinical Neuroscience Research, and is published here. The Salmon Committee hopes to bring Salmon Lectures to these pages regularly. Robert Michels 1,* Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University, 418 East 71st Street, Suite 41, New York, NY 10021, USA
* Tel.: 11-212-746-6001. E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Michels). 1 Chairman, Salmon Committee. 1566-2772/02/$ - see front matter q 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. PII: S 1566-277 2(02)00012-9
Introduction to the Salmon Lecture Thomas William Salmon, MD (1876–1927) directed psychiatric services at Ellis Island for the U.S. Public Health Service, was medical director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, and served as director of psychiatry for the American forces in France in World War I. He was Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, played a critical role in persuading New York State to establish its Psychiatric Institute at the Columbia University Medical Center, and was the first president of the American Psychiatric Association who had not been superintendent of a mental hospital. Following his death, The New York Academy of Medicine established the Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene, which has sponsored an annual lecture in his name since Adolph Meyer delivered the first one in 1932. The Salmon Committee includes eight members of the ARNMD Board of Trustees. The Salmon Lecture generally occurs on the weekend of the ARNMD meeting, and when the topic is relevant, is often presented on the occasion of the meeting. The 69th Salmon Lecture was given by Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, the Rachel Brown Banks Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Human Genetics at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. His paper was considered particularly appropriate for Clinical Neuroscience Research, and is published here. The Salmon Committee hopes to bring Salmon Lectures to these pages regularly. Robert Michels 1,* Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University, 418 East 71st Street, Suite 41, New York, NY 10021, USA
* Tel.: 11-212-746-6001. E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Michels). 1 Chairman, Salmon Committee. 1566-2772/02/$ - see front matter q 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. PII: S 1566-277 2(02)00012-9