Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on July 13, 2007
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2007 33(5):1151-1152; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbm084
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Commentary: Public Health Contributions
2 Provost's Office, Massachussetts Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
3 National Institute of Mental Health
Keywords: schizophrenia / mental illness / cognition
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Wayne Fenton dedicated his career to addressing the unmet needs of people with mental illness. His commitment to a public health approach was made clear by his actions: he left behind a leadership role in Chestnut Lodge, an institution dedicated to treating individual patients, to accept a position at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) that would permit him to influence, albeit more indirectly, the health of broad populations with mental illness. As we all know, Wayne continued to treat patients—an activity that led to his tragic death—in order to stay grounded in clinical reality
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