At the recent annual meeting of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders in Amsterdam, Dr. Lakshmi Yatham received the 2016 ISBD Kupfer-Frank Award. This prestigious award, named for icons in the field, Ellen Frank and David Kupfer, is a special recognition award to an individual who has made distinctive and sustained contributions to the field.

Dr. Yatham is regional head of the UBC Department of Psychiatry and regional program medical director of Mental Health and Addiction at Vancouver Coastal Health. He recently featured in Thomson Reuter’s The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014 as the most highly cited researcher in psychiatry and psychology in Canada and as one of the top 100 in the world.

Well-deserved congratulations, Dr. Yatham!