SAN MARINO, CA, August 03, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name H. Richard Lamb a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, Dr. Lamb celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
For 46 years, the state of California welcomed and embraced the dedicated psychiatric services provided by Dr. Lamb in his quest to better the lives of those suffering from mental illness. He was always interested in medicine, and becoming a professor of psychiatry stood as a significant achievement in his career. After a lifetime of accolades for service to the people in need of his mental health services, Dr. Lamb now serves in the venerable role of professor emeritus at the School of Medicine in the University of Southern California.
Dr. Lamb received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950 and an M.D. from Yale University in 1954. He was certified for practice as a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. After ascending to the rank of Captain with the U.S. Army prior to the Vietnam War, he returned to serve as chief of the rehabilitation service at the San Mateo County Mental Health Service in California for 16 years. The effects of that war on returning soldiers are well documented by the profusion of psychological studies that bloomed in the '60s and '70s, and Dr. Lamb contributed to this body of work as the editor for New Directions for Mental Health Services up until the 2000s as well as the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal in the '80s and '90s.
Dr. Lamb has previously served on the editorial board for Psychiatric Services and the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, and he has also published journal articles, guide books, and professional texts to mental health practice, including "Handbook of Community Mental Health Practice" in 1969, "Rehabilitation in Community Mental Health" in 1971, and "Community Survival for Long-Term Patients" in 1976. In that same year, Dr. Lamb accepted a post as a professor with the University of Southern California, a highlight of his career and a position he would serve until 2006. He also began to focus on long-term psychiatric patients and the logistics of reintroducing them back into the general population.
Dr. Lamb would later write about the long-term mentally ill, acting as chair for the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on the Homeless Mentally Ill. In 1991, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and chaired the Hospital and Community Psychiatry Institute Program Planning Committee from 1990 to 1995. Additionally, Dr. Lamb has served on the board for the Treatment Advisory Center since 2009, and the board of directors of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill from 2005 to 2009. For his efforts, he was awarded the 1998 Arnold L. Van Ameringen Award, the 2003 Peggy & Don Richardson Memorial Award, the 2005 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Lamb is a distinguished life fellow with the American Psychiatric Association, serving in many different projects over the years and eventually receiving the 1985 Presidential Commendation for his efforts. He is affiliated with the Council on Social Issues and Public Psychiatry, the Council on Psychiatric Services, and the American College of Psychiatrists. For a lifetime of dedication to the rehabilitation of the mentally ill, Dr. Lamb was selected for inclusion in numerous volumes of Who's Who in America from 2003 to 2016, and two volumes of Who's Who in the West in 1996 and 1998.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Lamb has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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