June Jackson Christmas, MD: Breaking BarriersDuring the same early 1980s, Dr Christmas became the first Black woman president of the American Public Health Association. Among other things, her legacy included the Dr June Jackson Christmas Program to help underrepresented groups enter psychiatry as a profession. He was chosen to receive the 2024 Abraham Halpern Humanitarian Award from the American Association for Social Psychiatry. Risen C. Bennett Braun, psychiatrist who fueled ‘satanic panic’, dies at 83. The New York Times.

Source: New York Times October 18, 2024 14:24 UTC