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| Menninger alumnus Jon Allen, PhD (left), confers with fellow Mentalization conference participants Stuart Yudofsky, MD (center), and James Lomax, MD |
A Menninger-sponsored December conference organized around the concept and clinical application of mentalization-based therapies drew more than 200 participants from around the world to Houston’s Texas Medical Center.
Richard Munich, MD (MSP-A 2001), Menninger Clinic vice president, chief of staff and a presenter, called the conference “an enormous success. We were thrilled and delighted by the quality of the faculty presenting and the attention and interest of the participants. This was a triumph from start to finish, a watershed for our collaborative research efforts.”
Titled Mentalization, the State of the Art: From Basic Science to Clinical Applications, the conference was the third mentalization event organized by Menninger and the first one in Houston. The last mentalizing conference held in Topeka was documented in a double-issue of the Bulletin of The Menninger Clinic (www.guilford.com), spring and summer of 2003.
Handbook planned
Conference presentations will be expanded and documented in a comprehensive book titled Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment. Project editors are Menninger senior psychologist Jon Allen, PhD (P ’76, MSP-M ’96), and Child & Family Program Director Peter Fonagy, PhD. Published by Wiley, the book is tentatively scheduled for Spring 2006. The handbook will include papers written by conference presenters and others and will address mentalization from its conceptual foundations and developmental psychopathology to application of mentalizing concepts in traditional and mentalization-based therapies.
Creating a mind
Mentalizing is the understanding we have of our mental states and the mental states of others. Conference organizer and participant Efrain Bleiberg, MD (MSP ’77, C ’79), broadly characterized mentalization, a key subject of research and practice at Menninger, as “how the brain creates a mind.”
This ability normally develops in childhood as an infant interacts with caregivers. Mentalizing is a key to a balanced emotional life based on a secure foundation of safe attachments or positive emotional bonds. Researchers believe that the capacity for mentalizing is a significant development in human life that’s necessary for a healthy emotional life and is a central aspect of resilience to adversity and vulnerability to psychiatric disorders and psychosocial maladjustment.
The conference offered mental health professionals an introduction to new directions for developing preventive strategies for psychiatric disorders and also for guiding mental health interventions. The event was designed as a comprehensive overview of theory and research on mentalizing capacity and included up-to-date developments in applying these concepts to patient care. Presentations included neuroimaging of attachment and mentalizing and the effect of traumatic brain injury on mentalizing capacity in children.
A focus on prevention strategies included subjects ranging from enhancing mother-infant interactions to violence prevention in schools.
In all, 19 faculty members were organized from the U.S., London and Budapest who presented 14 sessions followed by panel discussions over the day-and-a-half-long conference. The event offered clinical interventions that included child and family therapy, individual psychotherapy with adults, treatment of borderline personality disorder, applications of mentalizing to Dialectical Behavior Therapy and psychoeducational approaches to enhancing mentalizing capacity.
The conference was underwritten through gifts from two Houston, Texas-based philanthropies. The John P. McGovern Foundation gave $25,000 and the John S. Dunn Research Foundation gave $5,000.
Many collaborators
Organizations presenting the conference included the Child & Family Program of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine in collaboration with The Menninger Clinic, The Anna Freud Centre, Yale Child Study Center and the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.
Conference presenters included:
Japanese honor Menninger ties —
Training contributions lauded
Roy Menninger, MD, was honored at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Japanese Psychoanalytical Association for Menninger’s role in training many young Japanese psychiatrists in dynamic psychiatry and for Dr. Roy’s efforts successfully organizing and promoting workshops on psychodynamic psychiatry during the 1980s.
Accompanied by his wife, Bev, Dr. Roy traveled to Tokyo in October for ceremonies that included Menninger alumni. Menninger began training Japanese clinicians in the 1950s through the International Fellows Program. Takeo Doi, MD, was the first Japanese graduate.
Two days after the ceremony, Dr. Roy was again honored by a reunion with about 20 alumni from Menninger training programs.
“I said I was impressed with their accomplishments,” Dr. Roy recalled, “and the substantial growth of dynamic psychiatry in Japan, and my pride in having been a part of it. Subsequently, I sat at each table to talk with each of them about their present professional activities, their memories of Topeka, their plans for the future. It was a very satisfying time.”
As an additional honor, alumni presented Dr. and Mrs. Menninger with a set of porcelain tea cups.
Here are Dr. Roy’s remarks to the Japanese Psychoanalytical Association. He began his first two sentences in English and Japanese and then reverted to English:
Your recognition today of the role that I and the Menninger Foundation have played in the expansion of psychodynamic thinking in Japan was heart-warming and enormously gratifying.
Now I must change to English since I know it much better than Japanese.
From its beginning, under the leadership of Drs. Karl and Will Menninger, sharing our understanding of the human mind has been a prime responsibility and a central mission of Menninger. Over the years, this commitment led to the development of a variety of training programs–for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and mental health technicians, medical students and many nonprofessionals such as business executives and governmental leaders. Our program for international fellows from Japan, Singapore, Israel and other countries is a special example of our commitment to education.
Our involvement with Japanese psychiatry began many years ago, when Dr. Takeo Doi came to Topeka for psychiatric training in 1950. He was followed by other pioneers: Kyoshi Ogura, Takemitsu Hemmi and Tetsuya Iwasaki in the 1960s, Tetsuro Takahashi in 1972, 11 more in the 1980s and 18 during the 1990s, including your president, Rikihachiro Kano in 1981. Since 1950 we have had the satisfaction of working with more than 35 professionals from Japan, most all of whom have returned here to practice.
During the 1980s, at the request and with the help of Drs. Keigo Okonogi and Masahisa Nishizono, Menninger began a series of workshops designed to expand the knowledge and influence of psychodynamic psychiatry in Japan. In the beginning, Dr. Okonogi likened our endeavors to the 17th century Portuguese traders in Kyushu who were isolated on a small island (De Jima) near Nagasaki. He suggested that psychodynamic psychiatry was the modern-day De Jima of Japanese psychiatry.
For more than a decade, with the continued encouragement and leadership of Drs. Okonogi and Nishizono and the assistance of many of our alumni and later Dr. Takaharu Matsuda, Menninger staff members developed and presented more than 30 workshops in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Sapporo. These workshops and seminars reviewed a wide variety of psychiatric issues: psychodynamic theory, the treatment of depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorders. We discussed treatment modalities of psychotherapy and intensive inpatient hospital treatment, group and family therapy, and examined the impact of community psychiatry. Perhaps as many as 10,000 Japanese professionals participated in these workshops. About one-third were repeaters.
I am impressed with the growth in size and influence of psychodynamic psychiatry in Japan and very proud of having been a part of this growth.
Thank you again for your acknowledgement of our role. I hope the seeds we planted and the growth we encouraged will continue to benefit Japanese psychiatry for many years to come. Thank you.
Fellowship to honor Dr. Hirschberg
Menninger has established the J. Cotter Hirschberg Fellowship to honor the memory of a child psychiatrist who served Menninger for nearly a half century.
The Fellowship will be awarded to a clinician at Menninger who makes an outstanding contribution to mental awareness through education, treatment or research.
In 1977, Dr. Hirschberg was presented the William C. Menninger Professorship, which he held for many years. At the time, Dr. Roy Menninger, a third generation psychiatrist from the founding family, said, “Cotter is one of the finest men I know. He is the type of person who represents what we’re all about. A man of scope and depth, he embodies all that is humane and insightful in psychiatry.”
In 1985 Mrs. Robert (Sarah-Maud) Sivertsen, St. Paul, Minnesota, and her three children, initiated the endowment of the J. Cotter Hirschberg Professorship at Menninger with a challenge grant met by contributions from Trustees, employees, alumni and friends. The Professorship was elevated to Chair status in 1999. The first occupant was John O’Brien, MD. Jon Allen, PhD, who remains on the Menninger staff, was the last J. Cotter Hirschberg Chair in Child Development. He now occupies the Helen Malsin Palley Chair in Mental Health Research.
Dr. Hirschberg, who has been called “a pioneer in children’s mental wellness,” joined Menninger in 1952, with his bona fides already well established.
Dr. Hirschberg served his residency from 1941 to 1944 at the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital. He was associate professor of psychiatry from 1946 to 1950 and director of child guidance and mental hygiene clinic and professor of child psychiatry from 1950 to 1952 at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver.
He joined Menninger in 1952 and served as director of children’s services from 1957 to 1970. He was made an honorary member of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences in 1954.
His career at Menninger included duties as dean of faculty for the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences, dean of faculties of the department of education for two years, and chief of professional services at The Menninger Foundation for seven years.
Dr. Hirschberg was a faculty member at the Institute for Mental Health. He served on the executive board for the Institute for Religion and Human Development at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn.
He was a graduate of the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis in adult and child analysis and served as president of the Institute from 1969 to 1971.
Dr. Hirschberg was a member of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Mental Health and Retardation Services and Community Mental Health Programs for the state of Kansas from 1971 to 1982.
In 1984 he received the I. Arthur Marshall Distinguished Alumnus Award from Menninger.
He served as chairman for the Committee on Training in Child Psychiatry at the American Association of Psychiatric Clinics for Children for six years. He was a former member of the board of directors for the American Orthopsychiatric Association, former president and vice president of the American Association of Psychiatric Services for Children, and a member of the Preparatory Commission on Child Analysis for the National Conference on Psychoanalytic Association.
Dr. Hirschberg died Tuesday, June 9, 1998, at his Topeka home after a long illness. He was 82.
Sculpture rededicated to Menninger family legacy
The Vital Balance, a 21-foot, nearly 2-ton abstract sculpture transferred from Topeka to The Menninger Clinic in Houston, was recently rededicated to the Menninger family.
In an October ceremony attended by more than 100 staff members and patients, Walter Menninger, MD, said the artwork represented a bridge between the past and the future.
“I have been hopeful that The Clinic that was founded in 1925 would maintain in the present and beyond a sense of the legacy on which this great enterprise was founded in Kansas. And from what I have seen thus far, that legacy is being maintained,” he said.
Named The Vital Balance after a book of the same title by Clinic co-founder Karl Menninger, MD.
The work was originally created in honor of Menninger’s founding family by Kansas sculptor John Whitfield, who said his design attempted to portray balance without symmetry. The piece was first dedicated on Dr. Karl’s 90th birthday, July 22, 1983.
The sculpture resided for more than 20 years in a courtyard-like setting on Menninger’s Topeka campus. Now in Houston, the art is located in the southeast corner of the facility near the entrance.
During the rededication ceremony, Clinic medical director Richard Munich, MD, said, “This sculpture was transported across three states and resides here now in excellent shape. It reminds me how more than one year ago we relocated The Menninger Clinic here and it too resides here in excellent shape.”
Dr. Menninger noted how the familiar sculpture’s appearance seemed quite changed in its new location.
Gazing up at the abstract design, Dr. Walt said, “I must say, seeing The Vital Balance now in this place, it looks a great deal bigger that it did in Kansas.”
He paused for just a moment.
“Well,” he said, turning back to the gathering, “after all, we are in Texas.”
Collections highlight Menninger's Kansas past
Menninger artifacts are on display at the Special Collections Department of the Shawnee County-Topeka Public Library, and the Menninger archives have been transferred to the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka.
The library exhibit tells the story of Menninger’s 78 years in Kansas.
Separately, the historical archives include cataloged letters and research by the likes of Dr. Sigmund Freud, author William James and nursing advocate Florence Nightingale. The collection includes 3,400 boxes of materials.
News, notes
New edition available of Dr. Allen’s highly praised Coping With Trauma
Senior Menninger psychologist Jon Allen, PhD, has published a second edition of his highly praised work, Coping With Trauma: Hope Through Understanding. The book, significantly rewritten since the original, is a comprehensive discussion of the impact of trauma covering the perspectives of trauma survivors and mental health practitioners. Coping With Trauma is a self-education book that addresses the reader’s personal concerns. Readers learn about recent developments in attachment theory that have greatly enriched the understanding of trauma, extensive contemporary research on emotion, which prompted the author to recast the chapters on emotion and emotion regulation, neurobiological effects of trauma on illness and how depression is a pervasive trauma-related problem that poses a number of catch-22s for recovery.
Published by American Psychiatric Press Inc., more information is available
at www.appi.org.
Mentalization explored during Grand Rounds at Baylor
Three Menninger clinicians shared their work in mentalization research and practice for a Grand Rounds lecture at Baylor College of Medicine for the faculty and staff of both the Menninger School of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and The Menninger Clinic. The three professionals explained how Menninger clinicians incorporate the concept into patient care. (See story Page 1) The clinicians, practitioners at The Menninger Clinic, included Efrain Bleiberg, MD, Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Psychiatry and Developmental Psychopathology; Jon G. Allen, PhD, Helen Malsin Palley Chair in Mental Health Research; and Tobias Haslam-Hopwood, PhD, Assistant Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine. Their presentation was titled: Putting the Zing in Mentalization: Promoting Agency in Treatment through Psychoeducation.
Sprague Simonds, PsyD, joins Maine-based non-profit agency
Sprague Simonds, PsyD, who worked on the Child and Adolescent Unit as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Menninger Clinic, has joined Spurwink, a non-profit behavioral and mental health agency in Portland, Maine, as associate director of Clinical Services. Spurwink provides residential and day services, outpatient services and prevention and family-based services. Last year the agency served 4,500 children, adolescents and adults with behavioral, emotional and developmental disabilities.
Dr. Bram relocates practice
Anthony Bram, PhD (P ’97), has relocated his clinical practice to 515 SW Horne St., Suite 210 in Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Bram, previously a staff psychologist at The Menninger Clinic, continues his role as director of education and training. His clinical services include psychological testing, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for children, adolescents and adults.
Dr. Weber nears graduation
Jan Boris Weber, MD (MSP’ 2000), is concluding a child psychiatry fellowship at Stanford University and will be graduating in June 2005. He expects to pursue a research fellowship after graduation. He can be reached at Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Rd., Stanford, California 94305 or weberjb@earthlink.net
Menninger psychiatrist’s book honored with national award
Efrain Bleiberg, MD (MSP’77, C’79), has been honored with the prestigious Gradiva Award for his book Treating Personality Disorders in Children & Adolescents: A Relational Approach. The award, given annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, was presented in the category of Critical Analysis and Interpretation. The award is given “for the best published, produced or publicly exhibited work that advances psychoanalysis…,” according to the judges. The book is published by Guilford, New York.
Dr. Bleiberg is medical director in the Professionals in Crisis program at The Menninger Clinic and vice chair and director of child and adolescent psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. He received a brass plaque etched with the image of Gradiva, which is based on a similar image that once hung in the office of Sigmund Freud.
The award was presented last year to Peter Fonagy, PhD (MSP-A 2002), who directs the Menninger Child & Family Program.
Three Menninger alumni present at BPD syposium in Houston
Three Menninger alumni presented at a Borderline Personality Disorder symposium in Houston. Co-sponsored by The Menninger Clinic and The Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, the program attracted professionals, consumers and family members. Richard Munich, MD, chief of staff, The Menninger Clinic, opened the conference with an overview of BPD. Efrain Bleiberg, MD, medical director of Professionals in Crisis, presented on the childhood antecedents that underlie BPD. Glen Gabbard, MD (MSP -’75, MSP-M ’92), director of the Baylor Psychiatric Clinic, presented on the psychobiology of BPD. The conference was also sponsored by the National Educational Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder with NARSAD and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Metropolitan Houston branch.
OCD Program team members to present at anxiety conference
Members of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) Treatment Program team at The Menninger Clinic will present at the Anxiety Disorders Association of America’s 25th Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington. Thröstur Björgvinsson, PhD (MSP-A 2002), John Hart, LCPC, and Joyce Davidson, MD (MSP ’79, C ’82), will present “Treatment of severe OCD and other anxiety disorders: How much do comorbid personality disorders muddle the water?” on March 19. The planned presentation attempts to shed light on what is known about the interplay of intensive Cognitive Behavior Therapy and personality disorders. How reliable is the diagnosis of various personality disorders when a severe anxiety disorder is present? How does the conceptualization of personality disorder fit in the treatment of severe anxiety disorders? Presenters will outline the clinical challenge through a case example of a patient who struggled with severe treatment refractory OCD who also met the diagnoses of multiple personality disorders.
Fonagy group paper chosen for notice by prestigious Lancet
Peter Fonagy, PhD (MSPA 2002), director of the Child & Family Program, is among the authors of a research paper to be honored by The Lancet as the Paper of the Year, a selection made by the journal’s editors as “particularly important and outstanding.” Titled “Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in childhood depression: Systematic review published versus unpublished data,” the paper was published in The Lancet in April 2004. In the wake of concerns raised about the safety of SSRIs in the treatment of depression in children, the authors examined published and unpublished data in an effort to formulate an independent conclusion. Findings indicated that published data suggested a favorable risk-benefit, while unpublished data indicated that risks outweighed benefits. While raising concerns about the need for greater openness and transparency, the authors concluded that the non-publication of trials or the omission of findings can lead to erroneous treatment recommendations.
All six authors are affiliated with the Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, subdepartment of Clinical Health Psychology, University of College London.
The Lancet is a scientific journal with an international readership.
In memoriam
Editor’s note: We remember alumni, faculty and friends in gratitude for the relationships we had with them and for how our lives and the lives of others were enriched by them.
Edwin Garth Brown, PhD
Edwin Garth Brown, PhD (PSW ’59) died December 11, 2004, at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah, after battling cancer and Parkinson’s disease for over a year. He was 73. Dr. Brown, also known as Ne, received his bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1953 from Brigham Young University. Dr. Brown later served in France from 1953 to 1956 on behalf of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dr. Brown pursued a post-graduate education, receiving a master’s in social work from the University of Utah in 1959, a postmasters fellowship from Menninger in 1960 and a PhD in social service administration, psychiatric social work from the University of Chicago in 1970. He received many honors and awards. He was a licensed social worker in Illinois and Utah, certified marriage and family counselor and core certified in domestic violence. He served as graduate professor and later dean of the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Utah; founder and clinical director of Highland Ridge Hospital for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse; and co-founder of Sequoia Counseling Services. Dr. Brown’s career is marked by his compassion and dedication to his clients. He helped those with alcoholism, substance abuse, child abuse and marital problems.
Lawrence L. Kennedy, MD
Lawrence L. Kennedy, MD (MSP ’56), former director of Partial Hospitalization Services at The Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, died September 8, 2004, two days short of his 79th birthday. A graduate of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences, class of 1956, Dr. Kennedy became a staff psychiatrist at Topeka State Hospital and went on to become a section chief from 1961 until 1967, when he became a staff psychiatrist at Menninger. In 1971, he became director of partial hospitalization services, a position he held until 1999. Dr. Kennedy completed psychoanalytic training in 1982, and was a supervisor and a training analyst at the Topeka Psychoanalytic Institute until 2001, when he transferred to the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. He remained in active practice until the time of his death.
He held numerous faculty positions and was recognized as an expert in treatment of the borderline patient and on the development and use of partial hospitalization. services. He was internationally recognized in psychiatric education and provided leadership developing innovations in psychiatric care. He spoke at seminars and conferences in Ireland, Japan, Spain, Canada and other countries. Most recently, he did a two-week seminar for mental health professionals in Singapore on group psychotherapy for mental health professionals. He was preceded in death by his wife of 49 years, Carolyn, who died August 2003.
E. Bruno Magliocco, MD
E. Bruno Magliocco, MD (MSP-A ’65), died September 20, 2004, in Sierra Vista, Arizona. He was 76. He was a staff psychiatrist at Menninger from 1960-1966. Born in Rome, Italy, he acquired a Fulbright Scholarship in 1954, which brought him to the U.S., where he worked for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine before working for Menninger. He had a private psychiatric practice from 1966-1990. He was a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and professor emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College.
Wilfred ‘Bill’ Miller, PhD
Wilfred ‘Bill’ Miller, PhD, died November 26, 2004, in Topeka, Kansas. He was 84. He was a member of the faculty of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences. Before Menninger, he was a senior psychologist at Central State Griffin Memorial Hospital in Norman, Oklahoma, where he was responsible for development of the children’s service and then became director of treatment. He was the chief psychologist of the Child Guidance Center of Houston, and then returned to Kansas as chief psychologist of the Kansas Treatment Center for Children at Topeka State Hospital. He worked there for 24 years as an administrator, teacher and supervisor in the pre-doctoral internship psychology program and as a child and family therapist. He was recognized by the Kansas Psychological Association for “his leadership in the area of continuing education.” The hospital and community of Golfito, Costa Rica, honored him with a ceremony and plaque in appreciation for his work as a volunteer psychologist.
Philip B. Smith, MD
Philip B. Smith, MD (MSP ’54), died January 8, 2004, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Born in Sulphur, Oklahoma in 1922, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, graduated from the University of Oklahoma Medical School and the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences and was a Diplomate in psychiatry. Dr. Smith was a lifelong civil servant and the last superintendent of Traverse City (Michigan) State Hospital, serving from 1973 until he retired in 1982.
Broadway director, Menninger alumnus, dies in New York at 69
Jacques Levy, PhD (P ’61), who exchanged his career in clinical psychology for one on Broadway, died September 30, 2004, in New York. He was 69. Dr. Levy was a graduate of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences, completing a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology, class of 1961. He practiced psychology for a brief time at The Clinic before returning to the theater.
Dr. Levy was active in Off Broadway stages and in regional theater. On Broadway, he directed the original production of “Oh! Calcutta” in 1969 and its revival in 1976, for a total of 7,273 performances. He also directed the musical comedy version of the comic strip “Doonesbury” for the 1983-84 season and wrote lyrics for the musical “Fame” and co-wrote lyrics with Bob Dylan and other singers. He was director of Colgate University’s theater program in New York.
Photographer Auerbach dies
Noted photographer and pioneering graphic designer Ellen (Rosenberg) Auerbach, who had a brief association with Menninger, died July 31, 2004. She was 98. In the late 1920s and early 1930s she established, along with Grete Stern, an avant-garde design and advertising agency that was the most innovative in Berlin. She left Germany as Hitler rose to power. In New York, she worked as a freelance photographer for Life, Time and other major magazines.
From 1946-48, she collaborated with Sybille Escalone, PhD, who would succeed David Rapaport, PhD, as the director of Menninger research. Auerbach concentrated on film and photographic studies of babies and small children for The Menninger Foundation.
Several years after her Menninger assignment, she became an educational therapist for children with learning difficulties which she continued until she was 80 years old.
She once told an acquaintance: “It is my wish to make one person laugh every day. Should I make two people laugh on any given day, I get a day off.”
Renewed interest in her Berlin work from her ringl+pit studio was inspired in the 1980s, when museum curators and private collectors began to research European Modernism of the 1920s and 1930s.
Vice president sought for clinic
The vice president of Patient Care Services position at The Menninger Clinic opens September 1, 2005. If you know anyone who may meet the qualifications and be interested in working on The Clinic’s leadership team, please pass along this information. The incumbent will be measured in the following areas of performance:
Customer focus, strategic insight/vision & purpose, values and ethics, action, commitment, fiscal responsibility, teamwork, innovation, staffing & developing people and performance. The vice president will demonstrate these competencies by effectively identifying, monitoring, and evaluating all patient care services including nursing, activity & rehabilitation therapy, and chaplaincy services for The Menninger Clinic. The vice president of Patient Care Services is a Corporate Officer and is a member of the Clinic Management Group of The Menninger Clinic, reporting to the president/chief executive officer.
Education: Candidates must possess a BSN from an accredited school of nursing. Master’s degree in nursing required, PhD preferred. License(s)/Certification(s): Texas Registered Nurse License. National certification required (or can be obtained within one year from date of employment in this position).
Experience: Minimum of three years experience as a vice president and/or seven years experience in a director level position in a similar sized facility required. An interdisciplinary focus and a solid background working in a psychodynamic treatment model is essential. Experience in obtaining Magnet designation and/or working in a Magnet facility is desired.
To apply, contact: rdavis@menninger.edu or fax: 713-275-5116
EOE/Equal Access Employer
By James Lloyd Rice, MD (MSP ’66)
La Jolla, California
Letters
I note Drs. Kraft, Weiss and Jensens’ remarks in the latest Alumni News (September 2004 “Reunion in Chicago unites trio of Menninger alums”) about our admired late colleague, Brig. Gen. James Bell, that “he may well be the only alum to reach that rank since Dr. Will (Menninger) had that rank in WWII.”
With all respect for Jim’s many accomplishments (including teaching at West Point), I must point out that (at least) two of our alums reached the rank of Rear Admiral in the Navy (equivalent to Major General in the Army), so are our highest ranking alums to my knowledge: RADM Harold Voth USN (Ret) (deceased), MSP ’48, and RADM James Nelson (MC) USN (Ret), MSP ’62.
Kind Regards,
John L. Kuehn, MD, Captain (MC) USN (Ret), MSP ’ 61
Medina, Ohio
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