The Lionel Ovesey Award, begun in 1997, is given jointly by the Center and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine to a candidate or recent graduate at the Psychoanalytic Center who was significantly involved in original research, made an important contribution to the psychoanalytic literature, or was the primary person responsible for developing an innovative teaching or treatment program that has psychodynamic theory of treatment as its primary component.
1997 George Makari, M.D.
1998 Janis Cutler, M.D.
1999 Linda Mullen, M.D.
2001 Daniel Schechter, M.D.
2002 Sabrina Cherry, M.D. Elizabeth Tillinghast, M.D
2003 Eric Fertuck, Ph.D.
2004 Justin Richardson, M.D.
2005 Sylvia Fogel, M.D.
2009 Brenda Berger, Ph.D.
2010 Vaia Tsolas, M.D.
2011 Barry Stern, Ph.D.
2012 Richard Hersh, M.D.
2013 Susan Scheftel, Ph.D.
2014 David Schab, M.D.
2015 Jane Rosenthal, M.D.
2017 Sabrina Cherry, M.D. and Jane Halperin, Ph.D.