Lucy Ozarin

Lucy Dorothy Ozarin (August 18, 1914 – September 17, 2017) was a psychiatrist who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven female Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II.

Early years and education Ozarin was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on August 18, 1914, the youngest of four children. Her parents were Russian immigrants who had met and married in the United States. The school's Parent-Teacher Association awarded Ozarin a scholarship of $150 per year.

Ozarin attended New York University, just as each of her siblings had. She was a member of the Lambda Gamma Phi sorority and Aesclepiad, a woman's pre-medical honor society. After three years at New York University, Ozarin entered medical school at New York Medical College. Ozarin attended the Harvard University School of Public Health, earning a Masters in Public Health in 1961. Ozarin was a proponent of the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients, and she advocated for the eliminating the social stigma of psychiatric treatment.

Ozarin returned to the National Institute of Mental Health, where she developed new programs to help people with mental illness. for the World Health Organization. During the Civil War, the Surgeon General John Shaw Billings had collected every medical book published in the country and every publication about public health and state medicine. She sorted through its collection of 20,000 items as part of her research.

During her late nineties, Ozarin wrote over fifty biographies of notable psychiatrists that she wished to be published on Wikipedia.

In Fall 2019, Dr. Ozarin's student microscope was donated to the NIH Stetten Museum in Bethesda, Maryland. It is a 1932-3 Bausch and Lomb Type H, Model HA. It has been accessioned by the museum's curator, and it is searchable through the museum's online archive.

Works Ozarin, Lucy D.; Thomas, Claudewell S. "Advocacy in Community Mental Health Programs". American Journal of Public Health. April 1972. 62 (4). 557–559. Ozarin, Lucy D. "The Community Mental Health Center—A Public Health Facility". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. January 1966. 56 (1). p. 26–31. Ozarin, Lucy D.; Levenson, Alan I. "Community Mental Health Centers Program After Four Years' Experience". Public Health Reports. November 1967. 82 (11). p. 941–945. Ozarin, Lucy. "Daniel Blain: Founder of This Journal". Psychiatric Services. 50 (12). December 1999. p. 1563. Ozarin, Lucy D. Existing patterns of services for alcoholism and drug dependence: Report. World Health Organization. 1973. Ozarin, Lucy. "Kirkbride: Hospital Innovator". Psychiatric News. American Psychiatric Association. October 6, 2000. Ozarin, Lucy D.; Feldman, Saul. "Implications for Health Service Delivery: The Community Mental Health Centers Amendments of 1970". Journal of American Public Health. September 1971. 61 (9). p. 1780–1784. Ozarin, Lucy D. Mental Health Services in Rural America. Hospital & Community Psychiatry. 34 (3). March 1983. Ozarin, Lucy. "Moral Insanity: A Brief History". Psychiatric News. American Psychiatric Association. May 18, 2001. Ozarin, Lucy. "Pioneering Psychiatrist Made Connection Between Mind, Body". Psychiatric News. January 19, 2001. Ozarin, Lucy D. "The Pros and Cons of Case Management" in J.A. Talbott (editor) The Chronic Mental Patient: Problems, Solutions, and Recommendations for a Public Policy. American Psychiatric Association. 1978. p. 165–170. Ozarin, Lucy. "A Psychiatric Pioneer Remembered". Psychiatric News. American Psychiatric Association. March 3, 2006. Ozarin, Lucy. "Psychiatry During the U.S. Civil War". Psychiatric News. American Psychiatric Association. January 21, 2000. Ozarin, Lucy D.; Samuels, Michael E.; Biedenkapp, John. "Need for Mental Health Services in Federally Funded Rural Primary Health Care Systems". Public Health Reports. July–August 1978. 93(4). p. 351–355. Ozarin, Lucy D.; Sharfstein, Steven S.; Albert, Mathieu. "Integrating Mental Health and General Health Care". The Hillside Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 3 (1). 1981. p. 97–105. Williams, Richard H.; Ozarin, Lucy D. Community Mental Health: An International Perspective Hardcover. Jossey-Bass. 1968.