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 Press Release 
For immediate release Sponsored By NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association The new president of McLean Hospital, Scott L. Rauch, M.D., will moderate discussions with four leading Boston-based scientists currently receiving NARSAD research grants. NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association is a nonprofit organization raising funds for innovative scientific research on mental illness. The scientists’ presentations will include:
Benefit Dinner In addition to the free public symposium, a dinner to benefit NARSAD will be held after the symposium at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Dr. Rauch will discuss his research on neuroimaging and the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders and related conditions, including anxiety and mood disorders. Dr. Rauch served as Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Neuroscience Research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he was founding Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and the MGH Division of Psychiatric Neuroscience Research and Neurotherapeutics. Joining Dr. Rauch will be another distinguished Boston-based NARSAD researcher, Deborah Levy, Ph.D. Dr. Levy, an expert on schizophrenia, is Director of the Psychology Research Laboratory at the Mailman Research Center at McLean Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Tickets for the dinner are $150 per person, or $1,250 for a table of ten; all proceeds will be used to fund NARSAD research grants. To make reservations, call NARSAD at 800-829-8289 or 516-829-0091 or e-mail events@narsad.org. About NARSAD “NARSAD is the single most important non-governmental funding institution for psychiatric research in the world,” said George B. Handran, a trustee of the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation. “Here in Boston, NARSAD has always played a major role in supporting vital research and encouraging young researchers to pursue their careers.” NARSAD raises and distributes funds for research on the causes, treatments and prevention of mental illnesses. It distributes funding to early-career and established scientists to help them pursue advances in understanding such conditions as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, eating disorders, ADD/ADHD, autism and other childhood and adult disorders. NARSAD is the largest donor-supported organization in the world devoted to funding scientific research on psychiatric illnesses. Since it began giving grants in 1987 as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, NARSAD has awarded more than $215 million for 3,194 research projects at 415 universities and medical research institutions in the United States and 25 other countries. For additional information on the work of NARSAD, the research it supports and various psychiatric disorders, visit the organization’s website at www.narsad.org. The Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation is a private grantmaking organization that focuses on alleviating mental illness through education, research and direct care. The foundation gives grants in the Boston, New York and St. Louis areas, and NARSAD is among its grantees. The late Sidney R. Baer, Jr., a native of St. Louis who established the foundation in 2000, suffered from schizophrenia and lived much of his adult life in Boston. For more information on the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation, visit www.baerfoundation.com. |
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