[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 5, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S1968]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HONORING DR. JOSETTE LINDAHL

 Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, I rise today to publicly commend 
Dr. Josette Lindahl of Vermillion, SD, for being named one of six 
National Institute of Mental Health Outstanding Psychiatry Residents 
and South Dakota's first recipient of a National Institute of Health 
grant.
  A third-year psychiatry resident at the University of South Dakota 
School of Medicine, Josette will use the 3-year National Institute of 
Health grant, which is awarded to physicians who have the desire to 
perform research, to study glutamate receptor subunit function and 
schizophrenia. Josette hopes her research will lead to a better 
understanding of schizophrenia and more effective treatments. She has 
also received a grant from Avera McKennan Hospital to study brain 
receptors and their role in the etiology of schizophrenia.
  In 1982, Josette received her bachelor's degree from the University 
of South Dakota where she was a Presidential Alumni Scholar. Three 
years after graduating, she opened her own business in Vermillion and 
performed veterinary diagnostic tests. Josette's company became the 
first joint venture between a State agency and a private high-tech 
corporation. In 1996, she received a Ph.D., from the University of 
South Dakota, and in 2000 earned her medical degree. Today, Josette 
sees patients 2 days a week at Lewis and Clark Mental Health Center in 
Yankton, as well as being on call at hospitals in Sioux Falls.
  Josette's medical and research talents have enhanced the lives of 
countless South Dakotans and will lead to important developments in the 
future care of mental health patients. Her hard work and determination 
serves as a model for other talented health care professionals to 
emulate. I am pleased to be able to share her accomplishments with my 
colleagues and to be able to publicly commend her work.

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