Charles S. Gersoni Military Psychology Award:
This award is for outstanding contributions to military psychology. The award is made for excellence in research, service, product development, or administration that clearly reflects advancement of the profession of military psychology, improved  effectiveness of military psychology systems, or service on behalf of the welfare of military personnel.  Awardees may be individuals or a group of individuals whose contributions merit special recognition  by Division 19.  Charles S. Gersoni received his Ph.D. in psychology from New York University in 1937, and joined  the Army in 1941 where he served as a clinical psychologist through World War II.  After the war and  following a brief stint with the Veterans Administration, he returned to the Army and worked to  establish a career force of uniformed clinical psychologists, becoming the first Clinical Psychology  Consultant to the Army Surgeon General in 1947 (through 1951).  The clinical psychology training program developed by Gersoni was launched by the Army in 1949, and later became a model for  similar programs in the Navy and Air Force.  At Gersoni’s urging, the Army was the first military agency to insist upon doctorate level training for psychologists.  Gersoni also served as Chief of Psychology Service at Walter Reed Army Hospital (1951-53), as Deputy Chief of the Department of Physical Standards Research,  Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (1957-59), and as Commander of the Army Personnel Research Office (later named the Army Research Institute) from  1962-1965.  He retired from the Army in 1965, and after that served in a variety of positions at the  APA including Associate Executive Officer.  Gersoni was the editor of the “American Psychologist”  when it became the first journal to adopt anonymous peer review in 1972.  He was a Fellow of  Division 19, and throughout his professional life Division 19 was the only APA division that he chose to belong to.  Gersoni died in 1981 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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Congratulations to Dr. James Griffith and Dr. Brad Johnson recipients of this years Gersoni Award.

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