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Fountain House, one of the world’s leading
mental health models, held its 9th annual Symposium and
Luncheon on Monday, April 30, 2012, at the Grand Ballroom of
The Pierre in New York City. The event, titled “The Changing
Mind: Youth and Neuroplasticity,” raised over one million
dollars for Fountain House and was attended by more than 500
guests. The Fountain House Humanitarian Award was presented
to
Mark Vonnegut, MD
– pediatrician, author and educator – who has lived with
schizophrenia throughout his adult life.
The Symposium featured a panel
discussion geared to a lay audience by leading experts in
the fields of mental health research, treatment, and public
policy: Joseph T. Coyle, MD, Eben S. Draper
Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical
School, and Editor-in-Chief of Archives of General
Psychiatry; Brian D’Onofrio, PhD, Associate
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Indiana University, whose
research explores the causes of child and adolescent
psychopathology and adjustment; and Elyn Saks,
JD, PhD,
Orrin B. Evans
Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the
Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California Gould
School of Law. Saks chronicled her struggle with
schizophrenia in the memoir
The Center
Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness.
Chairs for
the event were: Patricia Begley, Kitty de Chazal, Kim S.
Fennebresque, Lorna Hyde Graev, Alexandra A. Herzan, Anne
Mai, Lynn Nicholas, PsyD, and Andrea Roy.
Consuelo Mack,
managing editor and anchor of “Consuelo Mack
WealthTrack,” served as Master of Ceremonies.
Frances Beatty Adler and Allen Adler,
Courtney Allinson Arnot,
Ann Barish, Debbie Bancroft, Cece
Black, Lauren Lawrence, Deeda Blair, Susan Braddock, Susan Brody, Dana
Buchman, Denise LeFrak
Calicchio, Judy Cormier, Becky de Kertanguy, Jackie
and Nicholas Drexel, Chip Fisher, Jane and Stephen Fillo,
Jacquie Garrett, Mark Gilbertson, Betsy Gotbaum, Lorna and
Larry Graev, Agnes Gund, Dr. Jimmie Holland, Joy Ingham,
Mary Kalikow, Marianna Kaufman, Fernanda Kellogg and Kirk
Henckels, Jo Carole Lauder, Jeanne Lawrence, Kate Lear,
Rosemary and Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, Sharon Handler Loeb, Dr.
Shari Lusskin, Kitty McKnight, Payne Middleton, Lynn and
Nick Nicholas, Susan Nitze, Peggy and Marne Obernauer, Jr.,
Elizabeth Peabody, Emilia Saint-Amand, Andrea Stark, Zibby
Tozer, Jean Shafiroff, Sydney Shuman, Elizabeth Watson,
Baker Woolworth.
For more information about
Fountain House: www.fountainhouse.org
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