jurgen-unutzer_webWe just recently found out that in our series of blogs highlighting the awards our excellent grantees won in November 2009, we missed one. At their annual meeting, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) presented Jurgen Unutzer with the APM Research Award. The award, created to recognize exceptional research and clinical work in the field, honors an individual currently studying psychopathology in the medically ill. Dr. Unutzer is well known for his creation of the IMPACT intervention for treating depression in older adults, a primary-care, team-based approach that more than doubles the effectiveness of depression treatment in older adults. A recent study published in October in a supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine also showed that IMPACT was effective in treating depression among older cancer patients. We congratulate Dr. Unutzer on receiving recognition for his significant contribution to improving the treatment of depression in older adults.