Jellinek Memorial Fund

Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 508, 2007 doi:10.1093/alcalc/agm159 ANNOUNCEMENT JELLINEK MEMORIAL FUND The Board Directors of the Jellinek Memorial Fund is pleased to announce that the Jellinek Memorial Award for 2007 has been awarded to Dr. Bridget F. Grant (Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biometry, Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological research, NIAAA, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland) for outstanding leadership in the design, implementation and analysis of major epidemiologic surveys in the field of alcohol and drug use disorders and psychiatric comorbidities. The award was presented by Dr. Boris Tabakoff at the RSA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois on July 11, 2007. As you know, the Jellinek Award consists of $5000 (Canadian) together with a bust of the late E.M. Jellinek. The Board of the Jellinek Memorial Fund also wishes to announce that the Selection Committee for the 2009 award is chaired by Dr. Thomas Babor. The specific category is ‘Social, Cultural and Policy Studies’. Nominations for this award can be forwarded to: Thomas Babor, PhD, Department of Community Medicine, UConn School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030-6325, USA, by October 1, 2008. Nominations may also be submitted online at www.jellinekaward.org.  The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol. All rights reserved  (...truncated)