Association honors Watson with Member-in-Training Award

March 4, 2003

Association honors Watson with Member-in-Training Award
 
The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry recently honored Dr. Lea C. Watson with its 2003 Member-in-Training Award.

Watson, a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UNC’s department of psychiatry, received the award at the association’s 16th Annual Meeting.

The Member-in-Training Award recognizes the best, unpublished original research primarily performed by a new researcher in geriatric psychiatry. Watson was selected by the association’s research committee for her role as the lead author of “Are Residents of Assisted Living Depressed? Results from a Four-State Study.”

In this paper, Watson reported that as many as one-third of residents in assisted living facilities show serious symptoms of depression and that residents with severe depression die at a faster rate than those without depression. Watson is presenting the paper at the conference today (March 4).

Watson’s previous honors include the American Psychiatric Association-Hoescht Marion Roussel Fellowship for Women Residents in Psychiatry and the 2002 Stepping Stones Award from the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatrists.

UNC department of psychiatry contact: Crystal Hinson, (919) 966-9115

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