GALA WINE TASTING 2011

Dr. Donald Meyers
2011 Honoree

SATURDAY, APRIL 30 AT 5 PM
WINE TASTING AND REFRESHMENTS
Home of Julia Hodgson and Andreas Kottmann
5271 Independence Avenue, Bronx

HONOREES:
Dr. Ricardo R. Fernandez, President, Lehman College
Gayle Jennings O’Byrne, Vice President, Global Philanthropy, JP Morgan Chase
Dr. Donald Meyers, Community Leader

Gala proceeds provide crucial funding for the BAE’s arts-in-education programs in 50 Bronx schools - instruction in dance, visual arts and drama as well as music. Students from various Bronx Arts Ensemble arts-in-education programs enter an annual ballroom competition as well as showcase their violin, guitar, African dance and drumming talents at the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College in BAE's Annual Festival of the Arts.

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A practicing psychiatrist since 1955, Dr. Donald Meyers completed his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in 1950-1951. His psychiatric residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York from 1951-1955 also included two years service as a psychiatric medical officer in the U.S. Army. A graduate in 1967 from Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Dr. Meyers' positions at that institution included that of Training and Supervising Analyst, 1972- , Chairman, Child Analysis Training Committee, 1973-1981, Executive (Educational) Committee; Chairman, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Division, 1992- and Senior Instructor, The Advanced Candidate Continuous Case Seminar, 1979-.

Dr. Meyers was a Contributing Editor of the International Psychoanalytical Association Newsletter from 1991 to 1995, and at the Henry Ittleson Center for Child Research, Research Psychiatrist, Senior Investigator and Director of Experimental Psychiatry. At Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry, he has been a faculty member since 1968, as well as Supervisor, Psychiatric Residency Training Program, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry since 1985.

The author of numerous publications on mental health issues of children and adolescents, Dr. Meyers' other published studies include Masochism: Current Psychoanalytic Perspectives and The Psychology of Men: New Psychoanalytic Perspectives. He is a Life Fellow of the AmericanPsychiatric Association and recipient of many awards and honors, including the George S. Goldman Award for Special Achievements and Excellence in Clinical Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Education, and George E. Daniels Merit Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Psychoanalytic Medicine. Dr. Meyers remains on the Professional Advisory Board of the Riverdale Mental Health Clinic, and began hosting chamber music concerts at his home in the 1960s by the Riverdale Country School Music Department, directed by Robert Rudié.