THE HEINZ C. PRECHTER BIPOLAR
RESEARCH FUND
Bipolar Genes Project & Gene Repository
“New Funds, New Talent and New Awareness”
Fund Wins $500,000 Challenge Grant but More is Still Needed
Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, the first part of the Bipolar Challenge grant has been achieved! A $500,000 grant pledged to the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund has now been made into $1 million to advance research on bipolar disorder. However, there is still much more to accomplish. A second challenge grant totaling $1 million from the World Heritage Foundation-Prechter Family Fund will continue until December 1, 2009. If you would like to support this second grant, please visit www.prechterfund.org for a secure online giving form or telephone 734.764.6161 to make your gift.
The Bipolar Genes Project & Gene Repository Team Welcomes New Talent
Mary Clark, LMSW, joined the Prechter Bipolar Research Program and the University of Michigan Depression Center this summer. She came to U-M in 2006, serving as the first social worker assigned to the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service, providing acute psychiatric interventions for medically hospitalized patients. Previously, she provided outpatient psychotherapies, emergency and inpatient psychiatry interventions in West Michigan.
Gloria Harrington, MSW, has been named the new Project Manager for the Prechter group. She has extensive administrative experience, in addition to her credentials in social work. She joined the University of Michigan Depression Center in 2007 as the Executive Assistant to the Executive Director. Previously, she was the Program Administrator of the Sol Drachler Program in Jewish Communal Leadership at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.
Masoud Kamali, M.D., joined the Prechter research team this fall as a Clinical Lecturer and Research Fellow. He was previously with Bournewood Hospital in Brookline, Mass., where he served as an inpatient attending physician. In addition to his clinical duties treating acutely ill patients, Dr. Kamali supervised residents and medical students from Boston University during their inpatient psychiatry rotations. Dr. Kamali served his residency in psychiatry at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.
New Awareness for Bipolar Disorder in Recent Issue of Hour Detroit
In the October 2008 issue of Hour Detroit, Wally Prechter was featured in a story called “No Secrets.” In the piece, Prechter stresses the need for more research and funding of bipolar disorders. Additionally, she explains how the Heinz C. Prechter Research Fund is working with the University of Michigan Depression Center and the Bipolar Genes Project to advance the efforts to find real answers about the disorder. -more-
