Henry Nasrallah Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychopharmacology Education
Nominee Eligibility and Award Criteria
This award will be given annually to recognize outstanding contributions in clinical psychopharmacology education and teaching. This award will be given annually to recognize outstanding contributions in clinical psychopharmacology education and teaching. 2025 marked its inaugural year. The nominee should be full member of ASCP and be recognized as an educator nationally and internationally as evidenced by invited CME accredited presentations at national and international conferences.
The Henry Nasrallah award consists of a $3,500 award amount ($2,500 honoraria provided to the award recipient plus $1,000 to cover travel expenses of the award winner). This award will be presented during the 2026 ASCP Annual Meeting (formerly NCDEU) on May 26-May 29, 2026 in Miami, FL. The Award Winner must attend the 2026 ASCP Annual Meeting.
About Dr. Henry Nasrallah
Dr. Henry Nasrallah is an internationally recognized psychiatrist, educator, and researcher. He received his BS and MD from the American University of Beirut and completed his residency at the University of Rochester, followed by a neuroscience fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Nasrallah has held prominent faculty positions, including at the University of California, San Diego, and Ohio State University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry.
Currently, he is the Director of the Schizophrenia and Neuropsychiatry Programs at the University of Cincinnati, where his research focuses on the neurobiology and psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and related disorders. Dr. Nasrallah has authored over 450 scientific articles and 13 books, edited several leading journals, and is a co-founder of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS).
This award is intended to honor those who exemplify the spirit of Dr. Nasrallah’s commitment to excellence in education and research in clinical psychopharmacology.
Congratulations to the 2025 Henry Nasrallah Award Winner, Dr. Stephen Stahl!
Dr. Stahl is Distinguished Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California Riverside, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, Honorary Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and Senior Academic Advisor and Director of Psychopharmacology for the California Department of State Hospitals. He is editor emeritus of CNS Spectrums, author of >600 articles, and over 90 textbooks including the best-selling and award winning textbook, Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, now in its fifth edition, and the best-selling and award-winning clinical manual, Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide, now in its eighth edition. Dr. Stahl has been awarded the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) Lundbeck Foundation Award in Education, the A.E. Bennett Award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Aristotle Gold Medal from Greece, the lifetime achievement award in psychiatry from the Sapienza University of Rome, the Paykel Lecture from Cambridge University, the 2013 Distinguished Psychiatrist Award of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the 2016 David Mrazek Award Winner of the APA, in 2018 an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Üsküdar University in Istanbul Turkey and in 2024 an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Medical Sciences honoris causa) from the University of Cambridge.