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Dr. John Hickman, a clinical professor of psychiatry who worked with UT Southwestern residents for more than 20 years to improve their clinical skills, died Feb. 3 of complications of type 1 diabetes, a disease he had battled for more than 60 years. Continue reading In Memoriam: Dr. John Hickman (from the UTSWMC CenterTimes June/July 2010)

Ken Altshuler MD, Mark Blotcky MD, Frank Crumley MD, Fred Griffin MD, Madeline Harford MD, Jerry Lewis Jr MD, Ed Nace MD, Richard Roskos MD, Les Secrest MD, Larry Tripp MD and Myron Weiner MD Continue reading June 2010: NTSPP Distinguished Life Fellows go the extra mile for patients and psychiatry

North CS, Yutzy SH.  Goodwin and Guze’s Psychiatric Diagnosis, 6th edition.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2010.  For links:   Continue reading Carol North MD New publication — Psychiatric Diagnosis 6th Edition

The Virtuous Psychiatrist:  Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice” is the first treatment of psychiatric ethics using virtue theory.  Its
unique use of “caseplays” to illustrate concepts and practices makes it particularly suited to psychiatric/mental health training settings.  The
virtues approach to psychiatric ethics emphasizes the cultivation of moral habits of mind and action, intended to be complementary to the
“quandary” approaches more typical of medical ethics.  For links:   Continue reading John Sadler MD: New publication ~ The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice