Dr. Michael Jellinek honored with American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Catcher in the Rye Humanitarian Award

BURLINGTON, MA (October 27, 2015) – Michael S. Jellinek, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Lahey Health Community Network, was presented with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Catcher in the Rye Humanitarian Award at its annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

The Catcher in the Rye Humanitarian Award, established in 1990, is the AACAP’s most prestigious award and recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of children’s mental health. These contributions may include advocacy, increasing awareness, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, research, and/or acts of bravery or kindness. Dr. Jellinek is receiving this award for his development of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist, which is the most widely used screening instrument to help primary care pediatricians identify children with emotional problems. His questionnaire is used worldwide.

“I am honored to receive the Catcher in the Rye Humanitarian Award by the AACAP,” said Dr. Jellinek. “My work has always focused on the interface between pediatrics and child psychology, and I am deeply passionate about the emotional wellbeing of children. I’m thankful for my colleagues at the AACAP for their work in continuing to draw attention to advances in the fields of child and adolescent psychiatry.”

Dr. Jellinek is a highly regarded child psychiatrist, and is board certified in pediatrics, general psychiatry, and child/adolescent psychiatry. He has been a professor of psychiatry and of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School since 1996, has written 124 original reports, 240 chapters and articles, and edited six books, and co-developed with J. Michael Murphy EdD the Pediatric Symptom Checklist. He holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia College and received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He spent his residency training at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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