Saeed earns national psychiatry award

Dr. Sy Saeed, professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine in the Brody School of Medicine, has been honored with the Administrative Psychiatry Award by the American Psychiatric Association. Saeed also serves as chief of psychiatry for Vidant Medical Center.

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Established in 1983, the award honors an APA member who is a nationally-recognized clinician executive, whose effectiveness as an administrator of major mental health programs has expanded the body of knowledge of management in the mental health services delivery system, and who serves as a role model for other psychiatrists.

The award is co-sponsored and selected by the American Association of Psychiatric Administrators. The award and lecture were presented May 18.

A 1982 graduate of Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan, Saeed completed residency training at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute. He served as professor and chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and clinical director for the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Service Network of North Central Illinois from 1995 until 2004.

Saeed is the founding editor of the Psychiatrist Administrator journal, and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Psychiatric Administration and Management. He is an elected member of the American College of Psychiatrists, a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a distinguished fellow of the APA and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Health, London.