| His family emigrated to Canada in 1927. He was an internationally renowned leader in the field of psychiatry and its subspecialty of forensic psychiatry. He has served as President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry. He was a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Halpern was also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and contributed to the development of the College's Ethics Manual. In 2000 Dr. Halpern was given the Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association.
In 2003 he received the Medical Society State of New York's President's Citizenship Award. |
