Fourth-year resident Rick Wolthusen, MD, MPP (left) was awarded the the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the highest tribute the Federal Republic of Germany can pay to individuals for services to the nation.
Dozens of Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences faculty members, staff members, and trainees received noteworthy awards and honors in 2023:
Clinical Awards & Honors
- Nicole Helmke, MD, was elected as a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
- Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, was named Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
- Allison Taylor, PA-C, received the inaugural Dean’s Excellence Staff Award from the School of Medicine.
Education Awards & Honors
Residents
- Oluwakemi “Kemi” Balogun, MD; Hania Ibrahim, MD; Adriana “Dree” Kavoussi, MD; and Lynette “Bessie” Staplefoote-Boynton, MD, MPH, received American Psychiatric Association (APA) and American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF) fellowships.
- Oluwakemi “Kemi” Balogun, MD; Samar Fouda, MBBCh; and Shelby Powers, MD, MS, received the Pearsall Fellowship from the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas.
- Jordan Broadway, MD, received a 2024 George Ginsberg Fellowship from the American Association of Directors of Residency Training.
- Andres Fuenmayor, MD, received a Young Investigator Award to attend the 23rd World Congress of Psychotherapy.
- Alexander Moghadam, MD, PhD, received two honors:
- Was invited to join The Robert J. Lefkowitz Society.
- Was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2023 NIMH Outstanding Resident Award Program.
- Shelby Powers, MD, MS, received a GAP Fellowship from the think tank Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP).
- Gregg Robbins-Welty, MD, received multiple awards and honors:
- Received Member-in-Training Future Clinician Educator Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.
- Elected vice chair of the American Psychiatric Association/APA Foundation Leadership Fellowship for 2023-2024.
- Received the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry’s 2023 Martin Fenton Award.
- Received the Laughlin Fellowship from the American College of Psychiatrists.
- Yekki Song, MD, PhD, received the Laughlin Fellowship from the American College of Psychiatrists.
- Rick Wolthusen, MD, MPP, received two awards and honors:
- Received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- Received the Nyapati Rao and Francis Lu International Medical Graduate (IMG) Fellowship from the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows
- Jennifer Hu, MD, was awarded the Award for Excellence in Family Oriented Care by the Association of Family Psychiatrists.
- Rikin Patel, MD, MPH, and Megan Single, MD, were selected to participate in the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP’s) Educational Outreach Program for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents.
- Megan Single, MD, was appointed as the AACAP Jerry M. Wiener, MD, Resident Member of Council.
Faculty
- Tara Chandrasekhar, MD, was awarded an early career development award from the Association for Academic Psychiatry.
- Jane Gagliardi, MD, MHS, received the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry.
- Nancy Zucker, PhD, was awarded a 2023 Beckman Award from the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Trust.
Research Awards & Honors
- Briana Brownlow, PhD, received 2023 Outstanding Student Diversity Research Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology.
- Avshalom Caspi, PhD; Harold Koenig, MD; and Terrie Moffitt, PhD, were recognized as top scholars by research.com. Moffitt was ranked first in psychology in the U.S., Caspi was ranked third in psychology in the U.S., and Koenig was ranked seventh in the U.S. and tenth in the world for social sciences and humanities.
- Geraldine Dawson, PhD, received the 2023 Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award from the Triangle Business Journal.
- Kaf Dzirasa, MD, PhD, was elected member of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
- Kelly Hyland, PhD, received the Student Researcher Award from the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
- Ed Levin, PhD, received the 2023 Toxicological Sciences Paper of the Year Award from Society of Toxicology Board of Publications.
- Terrie Moffitt, PhD, received the title Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of her outstanding scientific achievement and service to the United Kingdom.