The ADAA Awards Program recognizes member participation and commitment to the association and community. We are pleased to announce the recipients of three new ADAA awards.

Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award

To honor the memory and lifework of Jerilyn Ross, cofounder of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and president from 1985 to 2010, this award acknowledges a professional who exemplifies excellence and outstanding advocacy for patient education and care, training, and research.

Sally Winston, PsyD
Anxiety & Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland

An early practitioner of integrative cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders, Dr. Winston has worked tirelessly in the interest of disseminating this approach for treating anxiety and related disorders. Her involvement in ADAA dates to 1981, and she was among the earliest clinicians to adopt evidence-informed care for anxiety and stress disorders. She provides clinical services, teaches and supervises other clinicians, and advocates on behalf of patients with debilitating anxiety disorders.

A tireless clinician, Dr. Winston takes on tasks and responsibilities on behalf of ADAA and for the greater good of all.

Members of Distinction Awards

This new award recognizes midcareer clinicians and researchers who advance the mission of ADAA through significant service and commitment to the organization and its membership.
ADAA is pleased to present awards to two distinguished members.
 
Naomi Simon, MD (Researcher)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders

A member of ADAA since 1998, Dr. Simon was co-chair of the 2006 Annual Conference and is now the chair of the new standing committee on professional education. She has served on the Scientific Council and numerous other committees, including the Strategic Planning and Annual Conference Committees. Dr. Simon has also helped organize task forces for conferences on Women and Anxiety Disorders and on Anxiety in Primary Care.

She presents her research every year at the ADAA Annual Conference and has served as a mentor for many recipients of the Career Development Travel Awards.
 
Karen Cassiday, PhD (Clinician)
Anxiety & Agoraphobia Treatment Center

As the chair of the new standing committee on membership, Dr. Cassiday is working to define new categories of membership and special interest groups, as well as enhancing opportunities for members in other ways.

Since becoming an ADAA member in 1991, she has served on the Strategic Planning Committee and Clinical Advisory Board, including serving as chair. Now a member of the ADAA Board of Directors, she works with the organization to respond to the media on a broad range of topics. Dr. Cassiday has also gained her own celebrity status as an expert on animal hoarding for Animal Planet.

In addition to presenting every year at the ADAA Annual Conference, she has encouraged many early career clinicians to become more involved with ADAA.

Clinician Outreach Award

This award acknowledges an ADAA member who fulfills the public education and outreach mission of the association by serving the community with a novel, innovative project that expand the delivery of information or clinical services.
 
Tami Roblek, PhD
University of Colorado, Denver and The Children's Hospital

A member of ADAA since 2008, Dr. Roblek developed the OCD and Anxiety Disorders Program—the only one of its kind in Colorado—serving children ages 5 to 19.
The program works to improve the training of mental health and primary care professionals in Colorado in the early identification of youth with anxiety disorders; increase the number of clinicians who can treat anxiety in children and adolescents using evidence-based, state of the art interventions; implement an outpatient and intensive-outpatient program focused on evidence-based treatment of youth with anxiety disorders; and  provide outreach and education to the surrounding community. 

Outpatient clinic visits have increased by more than 200 a month, and thanks to Dr. Roblek's structured training curriculum that focuses on the accurate assessment and effective treatment of anxious youth, psychology interns, externs, fellows, psychiatry residents, and psychiatric nurses and social workers benefit from this multidisciplinary training clinic.