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== <big> </big>Awards and Honors ==
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!Year
!Award/Honor
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|2017
|Distinguished Alumnus Award, Johns Hopkins University
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|2014
|Doctorate of Humane Letters, Muhlenberg College
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|2007
|Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
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|1997
|Shankweiler Fellow for Contributions to Medicine, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
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|1990
|Alumni Achievement Award, Muhlenberg College Allentown, PA
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|1988
|Inductee to the Hall of Fame, Central High School, Philadelphia, PA
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|1988
|Recipient, the Leon J. Obermayer Award, School District of Philadelphia, PA
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|1985
|Co-Author, Constitution for the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10.
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|1985
|Organizer, Core Curriculum, Programme for the Fifth Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Budapest, Hungary, June 28-July 1, 1985.
|-
|1982
|Consultant, Narrator for "Ground Zero: Victory Road," 30 minute TV drama for WCVB-TV Boston, Winner of Peabody Award for Best Public Information Program
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|1979
|Recipient, Grant from the William R. Milton Fund, Harvard University for Research in Medicine
|-
|1978-1979
|Writer for "The Baxters", given the IRIS Award for Best Series in Public Information by the National Association of Television Program Executives, 1978
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|1979
|Writer of "Time Bomb" Episode of "The Baxters", nominated for the Peabody Award Best Program in Public Information in New England
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|1978
|Writer for the New England Regional EMMY Award Winning Series, "The Baxters," WCVB-TV, Boston, Best Series in Informational Programming in New England 1978-1979.
|-
|1977
|Second Prize, Conjoint Media Festival of the Health and Science Communications Association, the Biological Photography Association, and the Association of Medical Illustrators in the Public Information Category for the film "Pain Unit"
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|1975
|Third Prize, Health and Science Communications Association Media Festival, Atlanta, GA, for Television Production "I Want to Die"
|-
|1975
|Second Prize, Health and Science Communications Association Media Festival, for Television Production "Drinkers in Crisis" Atlanta, GA
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|1963-1967
|Pennsylvania Medical Society Scholarship to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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|1963-1967
|Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Scholarship
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|1963
|Valedictorian, Summa cum Laude, Muhlenberg College
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|1960-1963
|Competitive Tuition Scholarship, Muhlenberg College
|}


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 18:14, 2 November 2021

Henry David Abraham (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1942), is an American psychiatrist, writer, and anti-nuclear activist.

Education

Abraham completed his undergraduate studies in 1963 at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he was valedictorian. He received his medical degree in 1967 from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. After completing postgraduate training in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1968, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1971-1974.

Career

Abraham began his career as Chief of the Marlboro-Westboro Unit of the Westboro State Hospital in Massachusetts from 1974 to 1975. He served as Director of Psychiatric Research at the St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston from 1981 to 1993. In 1982 Abraham served as consultant to the Institute of Medicine's report Marijuana and Health,[1] as well as to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third and Fourth Editions, of the American Psychiatric Association. His research led to the recognition of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD)[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] and its inclusion in the diagnostic lexicon of psychiatry.[9]. He is the author of 24 scientific papers including the pathophysiology of HPPD.[10] He has served as an expert consultant to the US Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency, an expert witness in the landmark Supreme Court LSD case of the US v. Stanley in 1987 [11] [12], and in the US Court of Appeals in the case of Ritchie v. Feldman in 2006. [12]

Dr. Abraham addressing a Chinese student exchange program at Harvard University, 2014.

From 1993 to 1995 he directed the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Service at the Tufts New England Medical Center, and from 1995 to 1998 he directed the five programs of the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Services at the Butler Hospital, in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as teaching in the Departments of Psychiatry of Brown and Harvard. He is the author of over thirty scientific papers, books, and abstracts, and over thirty invited lectures in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. His psychiatric expertise has been cited widely in the media. [13] [14] [15] [16]

Abraham’s non-scientific writings have included books, films, op-ed pieces, plays, and teleplays. He is the author of What's a Parent To Do? Straight Talk on Drugs and Alcohol (New Horizon Press, 2004). REF and e-book, The No Nonsense Guide to Drugs and Alcohol [17]. In 1977 his comedy, Silent Partners, was produced by the New England Playwrights’ Guild in Brattleboro VT. [18] A second comedy, High Crimes, was produced at the Old Colony Theatre in Plymouth MA in 1979. [19] From 1978 to 1979 he wrote teleplays for the situation comedies, The Baxters, and Park Street Under, produced at WCVB-TV in Boston. The Baxters won an Emmy in 1979, and was sold to Norman Lear; Park Street Under was a forerunner of the sitcom, Cheers. [20]

Abraham’s career as an anti-war activist began with a public protest over the bombing of Cambodia in 1972. [21] In 1979 Abraham was asked to co-author the By-Laws of Physicians for Social Responsibility. He also served as editor of the PSR Newsletter and Secretary of its Board of Directors from 1979 to 1983, helping with public appearances, interviews, and original articles in the popular press to propel PSR into a national voice for the prevention of nuclear war. [22] In 1981 the New York Times featured a photo of Abraham in its Ideas and Trends section addressing a PSR symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [23]

In that same year Abraham was drafted to co-author the Constitution of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and negotiate the formation of the organization in the Hague with physicians from over forty nations. He also lectured widely In the US, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on the medical consequences of nuclear war. His work with IPPNW led to an organization encompassing member physicians in over forty countries, contributing to a worldwide movement against nuclear weapons, and culminating in the organization being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.[24] [25] [26] [27]


Awards and Honors

Year Award/Honor
2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Johns Hopkins University
2014 Doctorate of Humane Letters, Muhlenberg College
2007 Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
1997 Shankweiler Fellow for Contributions to Medicine, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
1990 Alumni Achievement Award, Muhlenberg College Allentown, PA
1988 Inductee to the Hall of Fame, Central High School, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Recipient, the Leon J. Obermayer Award, School District of Philadelphia, PA
1985 Co-Author, Constitution for the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10.
1985 Organizer, Core Curriculum, Programme for the Fifth Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Budapest, Hungary, June 28-July 1, 1985.
1982 Consultant, Narrator for "Ground Zero: Victory Road," 30 minute TV drama for WCVB-TV Boston, Winner of Peabody Award for Best Public Information Program
1979 Recipient, Grant from the William R. Milton Fund, Harvard University for Research in Medicine
1978-1979 Writer for "The Baxters", given the IRIS Award for Best Series in Public Information by the National Association of Television Program Executives, 1978
1979 Writer of "Time Bomb" Episode of "The Baxters", nominated for the Peabody Award Best Program in Public Information in New England
1978 Writer for the New England Regional EMMY Award Winning Series, "The Baxters," WCVB-TV, Boston, Best Series in Informational Programming in New England 1978-1979.
1977 Second Prize, Conjoint Media Festival of the Health and Science Communications Association, the Biological Photography Association, and the Association of Medical Illustrators in the Public Information Category for the film "Pain Unit"
1975 Third Prize, Health and Science Communications Association Media Festival, Atlanta, GA, for Television Production "I Want to Die"
1975 Second Prize, Health and Science Communications Association Media Festival, for Television Production "Drinkers in Crisis" Atlanta, GA
1963-1967 Pennsylvania Medical Society Scholarship to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1963-1967 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Scholarship
1963 Valedictorian, Summa cum Laude, Muhlenberg College
1960-1963 Competitive Tuition Scholarship, Muhlenberg College

References

  1. ^ Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Division of Health Sciences Policy (1982). Marijuana and health : report of a study. Internet Archive. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press. ISBN 978-0-309-03236-0. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ Abraham, Henry David (1983-08-01). "Visual Phenomenology of the LSD Flashback". Archives of General Psychiatry. 40 (8): 884. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1983.01790070074009. ISSN 0003-990X.
  3. ^ HD, Abraham (2014). When the trip doesn’t end. The Psychologist. pp. 670–673, vol. 27, no. 9.
  4. ^ Henry David, Abraham (2002). Neuropsychopharmacology, The Fifth Generation of Progress. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia. pp. Chapter 108.
  5. ^ Abraham, Henry David; Duffy, Frank Hopkins (October 7, 1996). "Stable quantitative EEG difference in post-LSD visual disorder by split-half analysis: evidence for disinhibition". Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 67 (3): 173–187. doi:10.1016/0925-4927(96)02833-8. ISSN 0925-4927.
  6. ^ Abraham, H (April 1, 2004). "The Psychopharmacology of Hallucinogens". Neuropsychopharmacology. 14 (4): 285–298. doi:10.1016/0893-133x(95)00136-2. ISSN 0893-133X.
  7. ^ Abraham, Henry D.; Wolf, Ernst (1988). "Visual function in past users of LSD: Psychophysical findings". Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 97 (4): 443–447. doi:10.1037/0021-843x.97.4.443. ISSN 1939-1846.
  8. ^ El-Mallakh, Rif S.; Halpern, John H.; Abraham, Henry D. (2008-08-08), Tasman, Allan; Kay, Jerald; Lieberman, Jeffrey A.; First, Michael B. (eds.), "Substance Abuse: Hallucinogen- and MDMA-Related Disorders", Psychiatry, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 1100–1126, doi:10.1002/9780470515167.ch60, ISBN 978-0-470-51516-7, retrieved 2021-11-01
  9. ^ "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)". 2000. doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890423349. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ David Abraham, Henry (2008). U.S. National Library of Medicine. National Institutes of Health.
  11. ^ RITCHIE v. Ira Feldman, in his individual and official capacities, Defendants-Appellees. United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit. Wayne RITCHIE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America;  Robert V. Lashbrook, in his individual and official capacities; Ira Feldman, in his individual and official capacities, Defendants-Appellees. No. 05-16401. Decided: June 26, 2006
  12. ^ a b Smith, Stephanie (January 31, 1996). "Soldier goes to court over LSD experiment". South Florida Sun Sentinel, (Fort Lauderdale): 22.
  13. ^ Knox, Richard A. (May 11, 1988). "Boston researcher ties panic attacks to previous drug abuse". The Boston Globe.
  14. ^ Barker, Pat; Brannigan, John (2005). "An Interview with Pat Barker". Contemporary Literature. 46 (3): 366–392. doi:10.1353/cli.2005.0031. ISSN 1548-9949.
  15. ^ W Smith, David (2005). "Testing algorithms for blood: what should we test?". Microbiology Australia. 26 (1): 22. doi:10.1071/ma05022. ISSN 1324-4272.
  16. ^ Abraham, Henry D. (October 4, 2005). "Seven lessons of Kate Moss". The Times and Democrat.
  17. ^ Abraham, Henry David. Gaskin, Carol; O'Connell, Diane (eds.). The No Nonsense Guide to Drugs & Alcohol. Dane Low.
  18. ^ "A Residence at Brattleboro, Vt". Scientific American. 8 (1build): 3–3. 1889-07-01. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican07011889-3fbuild. ISSN 0036-8733.
  19. ^ Kelly, Kevin (August 16, 1979). "Nothing funny about High Crimes". Boston Globe.
  20. ^ "Hubert Jessup Obituary (2020) Santa Barbara News-Press". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  21. ^ Statement to President Nixon from Members of the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Lindemann Mental Health Center, The Boston Globe, May 12, 1972, p. 4.
  22. ^ Abraham, Henry David. “We’re all prisoners.” Op-Ed piece, The Boston Globe, Jan. 26, 1981, p. 13. Abraham, Henry David. “The horrors and futility of nuclear weaponry.” Book reviews, Boston Globe, p. 65, Nov. 22, 1981. “Dr. Abraham to speak on nuclear war,” The Post and Evening Times, March 6, 1981, p. S4. Solomon, Rose. “Turn from the arms race while there is time.” Letter to Editor commenting on address by Abraham, in The Post, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 23, 1981. Sund, Debra. “Brezhnev détente will of people, physician says.” Meeting between Abraham and Evgenii Chazov, physician to Soviet president. Bangor Daily News, Nov. 12, 1982. Knox, Richard A. “Medical Messengers at the crossroads.” The Boston Globe, May 9, 1982, p. 111. Sund, Debra. “Anti-nuke physicians denounce proliferation.” Abraham quoted on front page of the Bangor Daily News, Nov. 12, 1982. “Psychiatrist explains perils of nuclear war,” Bangor Daily News Nov. 13, 1982, p. 9. Abraham HD. Inching towards Armageddon. Yale J Biology and Medicine, 56: 67-78, 1983. Fulghum, C. “No medical response to nuclear war, Egleston physicians are told.” Decatur-DeKalb News/Era, September 26, 1985, p. 28. Abraham, Henry David. Letter to the editor. “Preventive Medicine.” Wall Street Journal, November 4, 1985 Cassel C, McCally M, Abraham HD, eds. Nuclear weapons and Nuclear War -a sourcebook for health professionals. Philadelphia, Praeger, 1984.
  23. ^ Boffey, PM. Ideas and Trends: Preventive medicine for nuclear war. The New York Times, Dec. 6, 1981.
  24. ^ “Nobel Prize Announced.” Watertown Press, Nov. 7, 1985, p. 5.
  25. ^ Abraham, Henry David. “Beneath the Cloak of Reason,” Speech in celebration of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, Trondheim, Norway, delivered Dec. 13, 1985.
  26. ^ Hφybräten, Kristin. “Bare tillit kan stoppe galaskapen,” (“Only trust can stop the madness”), Arbeider-Avisa, Trondheim, Norway Dec. 14, 1985.
  27. ^ Newsmakers: Dr. Henry Abraham, The Boston Globe, Dec. 15, 1985, p. 32.

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