Don R. Lipsitt Award for Achievement in Integrated and Collaborative Care

The Don R. Lipsitt Award for Achievement in Integrated and Collaborative Care recognizes a psychiatrist who has demonstrated excellence and innovation in advancing Integrated and Collaborative Care through innovative, evidence-based models of population mental health care delivery. The award honors leadership in evidence-based care delivery through research and scholarship, clinical systems development, and/or education.

Don R. Lipsitt, MD, FACLP, for whom the award is named, was the founding Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry of Mount Auburn Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and as a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, he taught medical students, residents, and primary care physicians for over 50 years. He was the founding editor of two journals for consultation-liaison topics, General Hospital Psychiatry and the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. Presidencies include the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, American Association of General Hospital Psychiatry, and Massachusetts Psychiatric Society.

The award was established in 2014 with support from the Foundation of the ACLP and is named in honor of Don R. Lipsitt, MD, FACLP, a longstanding advocate for the integration of psychiatry and medicine.

AWARD DETAILS

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must demonstrate:

- - Nominees must be psychiatrists.
  - Academy membership is not required.

SELECTION

Submissions are reviewed by the ACLP Research & Evidence-Based Practice Committee.

RECOGNITION

The recipient receives:

- Plaque presented at the Annual Meeting
- A $1,000 honorarium
- Complimentary Annual Meeting registration (if not already an ACLP member)
- An invitation to deliver a lecture at the Annual Meeting

TIMELINE

- Applications open March 16, 2026 and close April 30, 2026.

APPLICATION

Nominations may be submitted by the candidate or by others on their behalf through the online nomination form.

The nominee should have a track record of significant contributions in research and scholarship, clinical systems development, and/or education related to population-based Integrated and Collaborative Care. Leadership in shaping or implementing innovative models of care, and optional contributions to healthcare policy, will also be considered. Population mental health delivery refers to the provision of services that improve mental health at a population level, as opposed to care to individual patients. Collaborative Care is a one example of population mental health delivery that is a team-based, evidence-driven approach in which multidisciplinary providers share responsibility for the health outcomes of an entire patient population. It emphasizes population focus, measurement-guided care, and treat-to-target clinical goals, regardless of individual patient engagement levels.

SUBMIT APPLICATION

2025 Award Recipient

Joseph Cerimele, MD, MPH

Dr. Joseph Cerimele is a Research Professor and Psychiatrist at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a national leader in collaborative and integrated care. Trained under the late Dr. Wayne Katon, his work has advanced measurement-based and population-focused care for complex psychiatric conditions, including bipolar disorder and PTSD. He has led NIH- and PCORI-funded studies, developed the Patient Mania Questionnaire-9, and serves as Deputy Editor of the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Previous Award Winners

2024	Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD
2023	Lorin Scher MD, FACLP
2022	Elizabeth Lowdermilk, MD
2021	Jamie Belsito
2020	David Katzelnick, MD
2019	Hochang B. Lee, MD, FACLP
2018	Jane Walker, MBChB, MSc, PhD, MRCPsych
2017	Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA, FACLP
2016	Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH,
2015	Michael Sharpe, MD, FACLP
2014	Jeff Huffman, MD, FACLP