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JOEL ELKES, University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, served as Henry Phipps Professor and director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and as psychiatrist-in-chief from 1963 to 1975. He has significantly contributed to the founding of the new science of psychopharmacology, which deals with the play of chemical influences on mental life and the place of drugs in management and treatment of the mentally ill. He is a founding member of the Council of the International Brain Research Organization and was founding president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. In 1951, Dr. Elkes founded the Department of Experimental Psychiatry in the University of Birmingham (UK), the first of its kind in the world. He also founded the Clinical Neuropharmacology Research Center of NIMH at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Dr. Elkes has received many honors, including an International Pioneer Award in Psychopharmacology. The Neuroscience Laboratories in the Department of Psychiatry at Hopkins are named after him and an international award in the field also carries his name. He is a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fetzer Institute Founding Fellow and senior scholar-in-residence.