Pittsburgh Patrika October 2018 issue

The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol, 24, No. 1, October 2018
Dr. Swami Nathan Receives
Life-Time Achievement Award in Psychiatry
(Paul) G. Manoharan, Upper St Claire, PA
e-mail: gopalsamy.manoharan@stifel.com
On September 24, 2018, the Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society presented
the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Academic Psychiatry” to Dr.
Swami Nathan, MD, DLFAPA, to honor “outstanding contributions and
devotion to academic psychiatry and to the Pittsburgh Psychiatric Organization.”
All of his friends in the Pittsburgh area who have known Dr.
Nathan’s accomplishments for many years
were gratified to see this richly deserved
honor bestowed on him by his professional
peers. True to his characteristic humility,
Dr. Nathan credits his several mentors he
was fortunate to have had in his life.
For the Pittsburgh Indian community for
Dr Swami Nathan with his wife
Girija.
a long time, Dr. Nathan has been the “Go
To” psychiatrist during times of distress and
misfortune. He was always there to guide
through difficult transitions with his expertise and appreciation of the
difficulties with our unique cultural differences. For several years, Dr.
Nathan worked with children in the Temple youth camps and was very
popular with children for his understanding of their concerns.
Dr. Nathan came to the US in 1973, armed with a medical degree from
the Stanley Medical College of the University of Madras and accompanied
by his new bride, Dr. Girija, his heart throb in college, to start his residency
in psychiatry in New York, followed by his fellowship at New York
State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University. He was an Assistant
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia until 1980.
Dr. Nathan came to Pittsburgh in 1980 to be an Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry at the University School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric
Institute and Clinic and served as a Medical Director at Western Psych.
He then moved to Allegheny General Hospital to become Vice Chairman,
Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College
of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. Currently, Dr. Nathan
is retired and enjoying a life of leisure with his wife Girija and nurturing
their two lovely grandchildren.
For his many friends in Pittsburgh, Dr. Nathan is a warm friend with a
helping hand, a good sense of humor and an ever-present positive outlook.
May God Bless the Nathans. •
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