{"id":141479,"date":"2026-02-04T15:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?post_type=bu-article&p=141479"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:54:25","slug":"amar-d-mandavia-ma-phd-receives-the-charles-e-gibbs-leadership-prize","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/articles\/2026\/amar-d-mandavia-ma-phd-receives-the-charles-e-gibbs-leadership-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Amar D. Mandavia, PhD, Receives the Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Amar D. Mandavia, MA, PhD, research assistant professor of psychiatry and an investigator at the VA Boston Healthcare System, is the recipient of the Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize for the best paper published in Women’s Health Issues in 2025 (Volume 35).  His article, \u201cSex Differences in Suicide, Lethal Means, and Years of Potential Life Lost Among Veterans With Substance Use Disorder<\/a>,\u201d was published in Women\u2019s Health Issues Volume 35, Issue 3 (May\/June 2025).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mandavia and colleagues used data from a cohort of more than 100,000 veterans with alcohol use disorder and\/or opioid use disorder who had received care at the VA and died between 2016 and 2020. They identified more than 5,000 veterans in the cohort who died of suicide, and within this group they compared both the age of death and the mechanisms of suicide for men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The authors found that women veterans were more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to die by suicide, and they died at significantly younger ages. For men, suicide deaths accounted for 21 years of potential life lost; for women, the toll was 32 lost years. Although intentional poisoning was the most common means of suicide death for both men and women, women were twice as likely to die by poisoning-related suicide. Given that many poisoning deaths involve prescribed drugs, the authors note that prescribing interventions are possible but that \u201cstrategies must strike a careful balance between ensuring access to needed medications for psychiatric disorders while reducing the overall available quantity of potentially fatal medications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur editorial board appreciated this study because not only is it methodologically strong, it also presents findings that are timely, actionable, and relevant,\u201d said Karen McDonnell, Editor-in-Chief of Women\u2019s HealthIssues. \u201cThese findings can help improve care for women veterans with substance use disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize was established to honor the founding president of the board of governors of the Jacobs Institute of Women\u2019s Health. Charles E. Gibbs, MD (1923\u20132000) was a fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and past chair of ACOG\u2019s Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women, the Task Force on the Voluntary Review of Quality of Care, the Health Care Commission and the Task Force on Maternal Health Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mandavia and colleagues used data from a cohort of more than 100,000 veterans with alcohol use disorder and\/or opioid use disorder who had received care at the VA and died between 2016 and 2020. They identified more than 5,000 veterans in the cohort who died of suicide, and within this group they compared both the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22573,"featured_media":141483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[],"bu-publication":[367],"medicine-article-category":[],"medicine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[378],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[390],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/141479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/141479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141569,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/141479\/revisions\/141569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-article-category?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-topic?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=141479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}