School of Law faculty member earns national award in forensics

The Law-Medicine Center is delighted to announce that Susan Hatters-Friedman, MD (CWR ’96, MED ’99), was awarded the Isaac Ray Award by the American Psychological Association (APA). Hatters-Friedman is an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the School of Medicine.

This award, which recognizes Hatters-Friedman’s contributions and exceptional achievements in the field of forensic psychiatry, is jointly given by the APA and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in recognition of Isaac Ray, one of the original founders and the fourth president of the APA.

Hatters-Friedman is a forensic and perinatal psychiatrist and has practiced in forensic hospitals, general hospitals, court clinics, community mental health centers and correctional facilities. This isn’t her first honor from the APA: In 2020, the national organization bestowed the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for editing the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry volume of Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate.