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Each year the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine recognizes the achievements of one Consultation-Liaison psychiatrist or internist by name a Donald Oken Fellow and inviting that person to participate in the Annual Meeting.

The Oken Fellow typically is someone who has never attended an SBSM Annual Meeting – a goal of this award is to introduce the Society to someone unfamiliar with SBSM and our community, and to nurture a relationship that benefits both the Fellow and the Society’s membership through the sharing of experiences and involvement with research – both clinical and basic.

The Award Includes:

  • Complimentary registration to the Annual Meeting
  • Itemized travel expenses to the Annual Meeting
  • $1,000 honorarium
  • The opportunity to participate in a meaningful way in the life of the meeting, and by extension, the Society

Criteria for Nominees:

  • Senior leadership position in his or her field and able to influence other SBSM prospective members
  • Preferably, not previously attended an SBSM meeting
  • Involvement in clinical or basic research
  • Effective teacher/leader to medical students, residents, and fellows

Additional Requirements:

  • The recipient will be expected to attend the entire annual meeting
  • The recipient will be expected to stay at the conference hotel
  • The recipient will be required to participate in the meeting by presenting a paper, poster, or attending a workshop or roundtable lunch as appropriate

Award Winners

2024: Stephen Zipfel, MD
2020: Hochang Benjamin Lee, MD
2019: Robert J. Boland, MD
2018: Gail Daumit MD
2017: Wolfgang Söllner, MD, Nuremberg General Hospital and Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Germany
2016: No Fellowship given
2015: Murry Stein, MD, MPH, University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA
2014: David Spiegel, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
2013: Roger Kathol, MD, Cartesian Solutions, Inc., Burnsville, MN
2012: Michael Sharpe, MD, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2011: James L. Levenson, MD, VCU Medical Center, Richmond, VA
2010: Jurgen Unutzer, MD University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2009: Kurt Kroenke, MD, Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN
2008: Theodore A Stern, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2007: William Breitbart, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2006: Elizabeth Lin, MD, MPH, Center for Health Studies, Group Cooperative, Seattle, WA