Full List of Charles Raison's Honors and Awards


  • 2024 – Distinguished Psychiatrist Seminar Series (DPSS) Awardee and Speaker, Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Association (PCFA) at UCLA.
  • 2024 – Emory University Science on Spiritual Health Torch and Trumpet Award, "for a career devoted to the mental and spiritual health of humanity by responding and attending to suffering with a compassionate heart and a keen scientific mind"
  • 2019 – Named one of the world’s most influential researchers of the decade
  • 2010-2019 – by Web of Science based on article citations
  • 2019 – Simson Lecture, Annual Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research (IBMR) Research Day, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  • 2018 – William K. Warren Memorial Lecture, Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK
  • 2018 – Eli Robbins Memorial Lecture, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2016 – Xiaohong Wang Memorial Lecture, Department of Psychiatry, Emory University
  • 2015 – Named one of five university-wide “Faculty of Excellence” highlighted for the launch of the “All Ways Forward” Capital Campaign, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 2015 – James L. Stinnett Honorary Lecture, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2014 – Raymond Pearl Award for “contributions to our understanding of evolutionary biocultural origins of mental health and illness,” Human Biology Association
  • 2014 – Principal Guest Scientist, 31stMidwest Symposium on Family Systems Theory and Therapy
  • 2014 – Invited to give Bench-to-Bedside Keynote Address at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) meeting
  • 2013 – NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (Brain & Behavior Research Society)
  • 2012 – Chairman of the U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress
  • 2011 – Champion of Hope Award from the Africa’s Children’s Fund
  • 2011 – Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX
  • 2011 – Chairman of the U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress
  • 2008 – Semi-finalist presidential search for Naropa University, Boulder, CO
  • 2006 – Emory College Seed Fund Award to Improve the Research Profile of the Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 – Emory College Seed Fund Award to Improve the Research Profile of the Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 – Emory University Teaching Fund Award to develop interdisciplinary course entitled Phenomenology of Depression: Body, Mind and Culture.
  • 2003 – Emory University Medical Students’ Teaching Award for Psychiatry
  • 2002 – National Institutes of Health Extramural Loan Repayment Program Award
  • 2001 – Bristol Meyers Squibb Young Faculty Development Award
  • 2001 – Emory University Psychiatry Senior Residents’ Outstanding Educator Award
  • 2000 – Emory University Teaching Fund Award for the development of an interdisciplinary course entitled Psychobiological Foundations of Personhood: Tibetan Buddhist and Western Perspectives
  • 1993 – American Psychoanalytic Association Fellow
  • 1991 – Alpha Omega Alpha, Washington University Chapter
  • 1991 – Missouri State Medical Association Award

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