Dr. Abraham Halpern

Dr. Abraham L. Halpern is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at New York Medical College and Former President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. His outstanding contributions to psychiatry include teaching, publishing, consulting, and membership in professional societies.

Dr. Halpern's tireless efforts to expose the political abuse of psychiatry in China through national and international bodies and the media led to an investigation of this extensive abuse. He contributes as a member of editorial boards of respected American journals on medicine and psychiatry.

Dr. Halpern is highly regarded for his community service and since 1992 has been a member of the United Nations Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, representing both the International Council of Prison Medical Services and the World Psychiatric Association.

In addition to numerous other awards and honors, in the year 2000 Dr. Halpern received the Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association. In March, 2003, he received the Medical Society of the State of New York’s President’s Citizenship Award for 2003. Dr. Halpern was honored “in recognition of prolonged and distinguished service to the community in addition, and unrelated, to his professional practice.”

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