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Bernice Pescosolido: East Greenwich To Standout In Hoosier Land
Pescosolido will be inducted in the East Greenwich High School Wall of Honor.
EAST GREENWICH, RI - From East Greenwich High School: By Bruce Mastracchio. Bernice Pescosolido graduated from East Greenwich High School in 1970. She was one of two Valedictorians for her class, and, was the top female graduate. She received a B.A. from The University of Rhode Island in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982.
Currently Ms. Pescosolido is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. She is also the Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, and Co-Director of the Indiana University Network Science Institute. Throughout her career she has focused on social issues in health, illness and healing.
Pescosolido's research agenda addresses how social networks connect individuals to their communities and to institutional structures. This agenda encompasses three basic areas of health care services, stigma and suicide research. In the early 1990's Dr. Pescolsolido developed the Network Episode Model, designed to help people recognize and respond to health problems and to use health services. She initiated the first major national study of the stigma of mental illness in the United States in over 40 years.
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In 2005 she was presented with the American Sociological Association's Leo G. Reeder Award for a career of distinguished scholarship in medical sociology.
In 2009 her research into gene x environment interaction earned her the Eric Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Medical Sociology. In 2011 she won the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health.
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In 2013, Dr.Pescolsolido was asked by actress Glenn Close to Chair the Scientific Advisory Council for her non-profit organization, BRING CHANGE 2 MIND, which Close founded to address stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness. one of their goals is to bring Change 2 Mind to college campuses.
Dr.Pescosolido has won many awards, prizes and recognitions since her days at East Greenwich High School. She is going to be recognized for all her achievements next April when she will be inducted in the East Greenwich High School Wall of Honor.
It is another award and one she most definitely deserves.
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