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Mashpee – The Massachusetts Psychiatric Society has presented Dr. Kenneth Terkelsen with the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society 2021 Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Clinical Psychiatry. Dr. Terkelsen has devoted his career to the treatment of the seriously mentally ill as a clinician, a teacher, an innovator, and an administrator. First in New York State, and then on Cape Cod, he has developed programs for the treatment of schizophrenia and borderline personality while always being highly committed to patients with the greatest needs. He became a member of the psychiatric staff of Community Health Center of Cape Cod in 2008, where he has served as a psychiatrist, closely collaborating with the primary care team. In 2017, he helped develop the telemedicine service at the Health Center. Previously, he worked in private practice in general psychiatry and was the Medical Director for Outpatient Services at Gosnold and Medical Director in the DMH Cape and Islands Community Health Center. Dr. Terkelsen graduated from Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences and received his medical degree from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. After a straight medical internship at Boston City Hospital, he completed his psychiatric residency at Lincoln Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He also completed a fellowship in Social and Community Psychiatry at Bronx Psychiatric Center, and then worked for several years providing outpatient mental health services for at New York State Psychiatric Institute before joining Cornell/ New York Hospital’s Westchester Division in 1987. He received the Outstanding Advocate Award in 1989 from The Alliance for the Mentally Ill of New York State and the Teacher of the Year Award from the Cornell Department of Psychiatry where he was an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. In 1992, he received the Exceptional Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. An excellent collaborator, he has successfully brought his leadership to a large and divergent number of settings and continues to be a pillar for psychiatric services on Cape Cod. Community Health Center of Cape Cod is a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center, and their mission is to improve the health of our community through the provision of comprehensive, high quality, compassionate health care to all, regardless of ability to pay. Services include primary and preventive care, dental care, behavioral health, pharmacy, optometry, women’s health, substance use disorder services and telehealth, at locations in Bourne, Centerville, Falmouth, Mashpee, and Sandwich. Visit the Health Center online at www.CHCofCapeCod.org.