Dr. Harold Alan Pincus, vice chair of psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, received the 2017 C. Charles Burlingame Award Oct. 18 in Hartford for his contributions to health services and the diagnosis, classification and treatment of mental disorders.
The Institute of Living’s annual Burlingame Award is considered among the most prestigious annual psychiatric health awards in the nation. The award is named after C. Charles Burlingame, the former IOL superintendent who, for 19 years starting in 1931, helped shape the IOL’s model of psychiatric treatment. Dr. Pincus is the 30th recipient.
Dr. Pincus is also noted for his work in policy research, science policy and research career development. He has had a particular research interest in the practice of evidence-based medicine, quality measurement and improvement and the relationships among general medicine, mental health and substance abuse — developing and empirically testing models of care that bridge these domains.
Dr. Pincus, co-director of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Columbia University and director of Quality and Outcomes Research at New York Presbyterian Hospital, delivered the Burlingame Award Lecture in the Commons Building’s Hartford Room Oct. 19: “Integrating Behavioral Health and General Medical Care: Drowning in the Mainstream or Left on the Banks.”