Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on July 19, 2007
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2007 33(5):1084-1085; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbm091
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Progress on NIMH Initiatives (Memorial Theme for Wayne Fenton, MD)
2 National Institute of Mental Health
3 University of California Los Angeles
4 Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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The articles in this special issue demonstrate the extraordinary breadth of Wayne Fenton's career. His work touched the lives of the patients he was treating, their families, and the larger community of researchers. Fenton combined vision with leadership to jump-start the field on a uniquely broad collaboration for therapeutic discovery. Although his tenure at National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was brief (from December 1999 until his tragic death on September 3, 2006), he created a national focus on the unmet therapeutic needs in schizophrenia. He became a central figure because NIMH established new programs to address these needs. He was instrumental in developing a unique collaboration
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