The Schonfeld Award honors the first President and founding member of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, William A. Schonfeld, MD This prestigious award is given to individuals recognized for their outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent and young adult psychiatry, as well as for their excellence and dedication to the clinical practice of adolescent and young adult psychiatry throughout the course of their career. Historically, this award is presented to the keynote speaker of our Annual Conference. 
 

The recipient of the 2026 William A. Schonfeld, M.D. Award was Cathryn Galanter, M.D., a distinguished clinician, educator, and leader in the field of Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry who is Professor of Psychiatry and Division Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Stony Brook University. She is a nationally recognized expert on child and adolescent psychiatry and a clinical and academic leader with background transforming educational and research programs, mentoring and supervising physicians and clinicians and overseeing curriculum design. Her clinical and research interests include implementing evidence-based practices, attention deficit hyperactivity and bipolar disorders, collaboration with pediatrics and schools, assessment and measurement based care and clinical decision making.

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She is the recipient of numerous grants as Principal or Site Principal Investigator from NIMH and PCORI including WeCare (Answering the Alarm: A System of Care for Black Youth At-Risk for Suicide), Metformin for Overweight & Obese Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Treated with Second-Generation Antipsychotics (MOBILITY), a Career Development Award (Improving Child Psychiatrists' Clinical Decision Making) and from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and Columbia University.

 

She has trained primary care clinicians in the assessment and treatment of children’s mental health as a founding member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Mini-Fellowship in Patient-Centered Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care (PPP) of The Resource for Advancing Children’s Health (REACH) Institute. She has held national offices in AACAP, APA and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training. She has peer-reviewed publications and co-edited The DSM-5-TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health (2025).

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Dr. Galanter delivered ASAP's first annual Lois T. Flaherty Memorial Lecture on March 13, 2026. Her lecture may be viewed online here.

                               

         

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RECIPIENTS OF THE WILLIAM A. SCHONFELD, MD AWARD 

* Deceased

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1969 Peter Blos, MD *
1970 Irene Josselyn, MD *

1971 Rudolph Ekstein, MD

1972 E. James Anthony, MD *

1973 Fritz Redl, PhD *

1974 Phyllis Greenacre, MD *

1975 Melvin Sabshin, MD*

1976 Moses Laufer, MD*

1977 Robert Coles, MD

1978 Hilde Bruch, MD *

1979 Heinz Kohut, MD *

1980 George Tarjan, MD *

1981 Selma Fraiberg *

1982 Otto F. Kernberg, MD

1983 Margaret S. Mahler, MD *

1984 Bruno Bettelheim, Ph.D. *

1985 Daniel Offer, MD*

1986 John Bowlby, MD *

1987 Jerry M. Lewis, MD*

1988 Vivian Rakoff, MBBS*

1989 James F. Masterson, MB*

1990 Richard C. Marohn, MD *

1991 Erik and Joan Erikson*

1992 Sir Michael Rutter, MD*

1993 Carl Whitaker, MD*

1994 Gustavo Lage, MD*

1995 Ghislaine Godenne, MD*

1996 Aaron Esman, MD*

1997 Bertram Slaff, MD*

1998 John Meeks, MD*

1999 Philip Katz, MD*

2000 Paul H. Wender, MD*

2001 Michael Kalogerakis, MD*

2002 Lois Flaherty, MD*

2003 Richard A. Ratner, MD

2004 Glen T. Pearson, MD

2005 Richard Rosner, MD*

2006 Robert Weinstock, MD

2007 Stephen B. Billick, MD

2008 Joseph Biederman, MD

2009 Cynthia Pfeffer, MD

2010 Harold S. Koplewicz, MD

2011 Glenn Saxe, MD

2012 Jennifer Havens, MD

2013 Kevin M. Gray, MD

2014 Robert L. Findling, MD

2015 Efrain Bleiberg, MD

2016 John Walkup, MD

2017 Jesse Shatkin, MD

2018 Lisa Dixon, MD

2019 Richard Pleak, MD

2020 Edward Mulvey, PhD

2021 Christopher "Kip" Thompson, MD

2022 Shady Shebak, MD

2023 Daniel F. Becker, MD

2024 Fabian Saleh, MD

2025 Gabrielle Shapiro, MD

2026 Cathryn Galanter, MD

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