PFNC presents Wake Forest psychiatrist the Eugene A. Hargrove, M.D., Award

Published on October 29, 2009 at 5:09 AM · 1 Comment

Vaughn McCall, M.D., M.S., chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has been presented the Eugene A. Hargrove, M.D., Award by the Psychiatric Foundation of North Carolina (PFNC).

"Dr. McCall is the first Wake Forest Baptist physician in the award's 30-year history to receive this honor," said William B. Applegate, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., president of Wake Forest University Health Sciences and dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "It recognizes his hard work and dedication to mental health care in North Carolina."

PFNC presents this award annually to individuals who demonstrate outstanding performance in the field of mental health research. McCall received this award for his research in the areas of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), sleep disorders medicine focused on insomnia, and geriatric psychiatry. McCall investigates ways to optimize the treatments and effects of ECT, with a major emphasis on quality of life after treatment.

SOURCE Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

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Tags: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Insomnia, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Sleep

Award for promoting brain damage

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October 29, 2009 at 3:10 PM

How wonderful that this person got an award for promoting electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Anyone who doesn't understand what I'm talking about should visit the Wikipedia page on ECT and read the adverse effects and effectiveness sections. There's a good review there of the recent happenings in the field, including an admission by the most published researcher ever on ECT, Harold Sackeim, admitting under oath that ECT routinely leads to chronic, global cognitive impairment. Yes, sir; let's give Dr. McCall an award for his wonderful work. After all, publications like McCall's have helped ECT to continue on for decades and have allowed psychiatrists to double their salaries by giving ECT along with bringing in a lot of profit for mental hospitals. That's what's important, after all. Who cares about the lives destroyed by this procedure, and the people who are left permanently mentally impaired by it.

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