JACOB SPERBER, MD, NUHEALTH’S VICE CHAIR FOR EDUCATION IN PSYCHIATRYAND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT, AWARDED DISTINGUISHED A.P.A. IRMA BLAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING RESIDENTS
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February 1st, 2013
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JACOB SPERBER, MD, NUHEALTH’S VICE CHAIR FOR EDUCATION IN PSYCHIATRYAND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT, AWARDED DISTINGUISHED A.P.A. IRMA BLAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING RESIDENTS
East Meadow, NY….Arthur A. Gianelli, President/CEO of the NuHealth System, proudly announced that Jacob Sperber, MD, vice chair for education in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Nassau University Medical Center, is the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents.
The prestigious award was established in honor of Irma Bland, M.D. and serves as a tribute to her unique and creative contributions to psychiatric education. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) awards annually the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents. This award provides certificates annually to APA members who have made outstanding and sustaining contributions to resident education in psychiatry. Recipients must have significant and sustained contributions (at least three years teaching at the nominating institution) to the advancement of resident education in teaching in different settings – psychiatry emergency services, inpatient, outpatient, community mental health, and other sub-specialty settings.
“Congratulations on this well deserved and distinguished honor! This award recognizes your outstanding and sustaining contributions made as a faculty member at the Nassau University Medical Center. We are indeed fortunate to have teachers like you, serving as mentors and great role models for our residents,” said Gianelli.
Steven J. Walerstein, MD, FACP, NuHealth’s executive vice president for medical affairs and medical director, added his congratulations: “This well deserved honor recognizes Dr. Sperber’s career long contributions as a teacher, mentor and role model. In addition, because teaching and education do not take place in a vacuum, congratulations also go to the psychiatry department, academic affairs, and the faculty as a whole, for creating a culture and an environment in which such talent can flourish.”
While informing the staff on Dr. Sperber’s prestigious award, Nyapati R. Rao, MD, MS, chairman of the psychiatry and behavioral science department, said: “I am extremely proud and pleased to inform our staff that psychiatry’s vice chair for education and program director has been selected as a recipient of the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents of the American Psychiatric Association. He will receive the award at the annual meeting of the organization to be held in San Francisco in May of this year. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Sperber on this well deserved national recognition.”
Jacob Sperber, M.D., has been the Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) since 2006. Before coming to NUMC, he was the Psychiatry Residency Training Director at Mt. Sinai’s North General Hospital Program, from 1999 -2006. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and in the past has held faculty positions at NYU School of Medicine, where he created and led the Cocaine Recovery Program, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was the Director of the Alcoholism Treatment OPD, and at Cornell-NY Hospital Westchester, where he was the Assistant Unit Chief of the Acute Psychiatric Service.
He completed Psychiatric Residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a Medical Internship at St. Luke’s Hospital Center. A graduate of Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, he did his undergraduate work and graduate work in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley in the 60’s.
He is co-author of a chapter on “General Hospitals in the Alcoholism Treatment System,” with Marc Galanter, M.D. His current IRB-approved study of aftercare completion from the NUMC addiction rehab to community aftercare programs is well underway, with promising preliminary results. A resident of Great Neck, Dr. Sperber is a frequent presenter at national and international meetings, including presentations on the positive functions of anxiety, at the International Society for Systems Science, in Waterloo, Canada in 2010, and at the Research Centre for Literature, Arts, and Sciences in Cardiff, Wales, in 2009.
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