In 2010, Jamison was conferred with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews in recognition of all her life's work. Jamison is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association's William Styron Award (1995), the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Research Award (1996), the Community Mental Health Leadership Award (1999), and was a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She has been named one of the "Best Doctors in the United States" and was chosen by Time as a "Hero of Medicine." She was also chosen as one of the five individuals for the public television series Great Minds of Medicine. Jamison has won numerous awards and published over 100 academic articles. In 2010, she was a panelist in the series of discussions on the latest research into the brain, hosted by Charlie Rose with series scientist Eric Kandel on PBS. She was Honorary President and board member of the Canadian Psychological Association from 2009 to 2010. She was distinguished lecturer at Harvard University in 2002 and the Litchfield lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2003. Jamison has given visiting lectures at a number of different institutions while maintaining her professorship at Hopkins. Andrews in Scotland.Īfter several years as a tenured professor at UCLA, Jamison was offered a position as Assistant Professor and then Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
She also studied zoology and neurophysiology as an undergraduate at the University of St. She went on to found and direct the school's Affective Disorders Clinic, a large teaching and research facility for outpatient treatment.
in 1973 and a PhD in 1975, and became a faculty member at the university. She continued on at UCLA, receiving a C.Phil. Jamison began her study of clinical psychology at University of California, Los Angeles in the late 1960s, receiving both B.A. She holds the post of the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. Her work has centered on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and writer.
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