Johnston to Receive NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award
Peirce Johnston, MD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience, has been selected as a NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist and will be honored at the NAMI Warren County 2013 annual awards dinner Thursday, May 2.
The NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award recognizes psychiatrists who have gone the extra mile with NAMI members and have made substantial contributions to local or state organization activities. Johnston was nominated by NAMI Warren County, where he has made two monthly meeting presentations in the past year and also presented the Ask the Doctor portion of the Family to Family class twice.
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is a grassroots mental health organization that advocates for access to services and treatment for mental illness.
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