Scott Schwartz Award

Academy Fellow Scott Schwartz, M.D. is Director of the New York Medical College Psychoanalytic Institute and of the New York Medical College Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Certification Course. In honor of his work with psychiatric residents, the AAPDP is offering an award for the best original, unpublished paper on psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychiatry, written (and first-authored) by a psychiatric resident or medical student.

The Award will consist of a certificate and a $500 honorarium and will be given yearly at the Annual Meeting of the Academy. The deadline for submissions will be NOVEMBER 1st of the year prior to the Annual Meeting in May. Award recipients will be invited to submit their papers for peer review in either Psychodynamic Psychiatry or the Academy Forum, and for presentation in the Annual Meeting through the formal call for papers procedure.

For further information and to submit papers, please contact the AAPDP Co-Chairs of Psychoanalytic Education: César A. Alfonso, MD (cesaralfonso@mac.com); Timothy Sullivan, MD (tsullivan3@northwell.edu).

Congratulations to:
2021 Scott Schwartz AAPDPP Award Winner – Emily Haas, M.D.

2020 Scott Schwartz AAPDPP Award Winner – Kathryn Skimming, MD

2019 Scott Schwartz AAPDPP Award Winner – Vedrana Hodzic, MD


2018 Scott Schwartz AAPDP Award Winner – Archana Varma, M.D.


2017 Scott Schwartz AAPDP Award Winner – Benjamin S.P. Israel, M.D.


2016 Scott Schwartz AAPDP Award Winner – Daniel Knoepflmacher, M.D.


2015 Scott Schwartz AAPDP Award Winner – Jennilee Tuazon, M.D.


2014 Scott Schwartz AAPDP Award Winner – Christopher Brubaker, M.D., Ph.D.


2013 Scott Schwartz AAPDP Award Winner – Lauren Schwartz, M.D.


2012 Scott Schwartz AAPDP Award Winner – Heather Forouhar Graff, M.D.