1989 Simon Bolivar Award Recipient
Lecture Title: Mental Health in the Americas: Challenges and Responses
Dr. Levav, a native of Argentina, received his medical training at the University of Buenos Aires (1962) and completed his psychiatry training at McGill University. He also holds a Master of Science in social and community psychiatry from the Columbia University School of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Community Mental Health at Haifa University in Haifa, Israel, and serves as a member of the World Health Organization's panel of experts on mental health. Dr. Levav has written extensively on the relationship between life stress and psychopathology, including psychiatric combat reactions during the Yom Kippur War, the emotional distress of concentration camp survivors, and mortality among bereaved parents. In 1989, he was awarded the APA Simon Bolivar Award.
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