Congratulations to our trainees on the following awards and honors they earned during the 2022-2023 academic year:
NOTE: Training years reflect when the trainee received the award; trainees have since advanced a year or graduated.
- First-year psychiatry resident Andres Fuenmayor, MD …
- Received the Young Investigator Award to attend the 23rd World Congress of Psychotherapy, in Casablanca, Morocco, in February 2023.
- Received a fellowship to attend the 23rd World Psychiatric Association (WPA) World Congress of Psychiatry, to be held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2023.
- Second-year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow Jennifer Hu, MD, was awarded the Association of Family Psychiatrists Award for Excellence in Family Oriented Care.
- Second-year psychiatry resident Alexander Moghadam, MD, PhD, was awarded an Honorable Mention for the extremely competitive 2023 NIMH Outstanding Resident Award Program.
- Third-year psychiatry resident Shelby Powers, MD, MS, was selected to serve as a GAP Fellow by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), a think tank of top psychiatric minds whose thoughtful analysis and recommendations serve to influence and advance modern psychiatric theory and practice.
- Fourth-year med-psych resident Gregg Robbins-Welty, MD, was …
- Selected for the 2023 Medical Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).
- Elected vice chair of the American Psychiatric Association/APA Foundation Leadership fellowship for 2023-2024.
- Selected as the recipient of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Member-in-Training Future Clinician Educator Award
- Third-year psychiatry resident Yekki Song, MD, PhD, received the prestigious Laughlin Fellowship from the American College of Psychiatrists.
- Third-year psychiatry resident Rick Wolthusen, MD, MPP …
- Received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Dr. Wolthusen, who hails from Germany, is a third-year psychiatry resident.
- Received the Nyapati Rao and Francis Lu International Medical Graduate (IMG) Fellowship from the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. The fellowship promotes the professional growth of exceptional IMG psychiatry trainees with leadership potential.
- Two med-psych residents received the 2023 James H. Carter, Sr. Community Service Award, established in honor of Carter’s dedication to serving the underserved:
- Ryan Slauer, MD (fourth-year), and
- Lynette “Bessie” Staplefoote-Boynton, MD, MPH (third-year)
- Two child and adolescent psychiatry fellows completed the Medical Education Leadership Track (MELT) program for the 2022-2023 academic year:
- Huseyin Bayazit, MD (first-year)
- Hudaisa Hafeez, MBBS (second-year)
- Three trainees were awarded the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Educational Outreach Program to support attendance at the 2022 AACAP meeting:
- Lexi Collier, MD (second-year psychiatry resident)
- Aishwarya Rajagopalan, DO (second-year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow)
- Chris Ramsay, MD (third-year psychiatry resident)
- Three residents received the Psychiatry residents Pearsall Fellowship from the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas:
- Oluwakemi “Kemi” Balogun, MD (second-year)
- Samar Fouda, MBBCh (second-year)
- Shelby Powers, MD, MS (third-year)
- Three residents received American Psychiatric Association (APA) and American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF) fellowships:
- Oluwakemi "Kemi" Balogun, MD (second-year psychiatry resident)
- Hania Ibrahim, MD (second-year psychiatry resident)
- Lynette “Bessie” Staplefoote-Boynton, MD, MPH (third-year med-psych resident)
- Three residents placed fourth nationally in MindGames, the American Psychiatric Association’s national residency team competition:
- Sophie Fourniquet, MD (third-year psychiatry resident)
- Jeff Lee, MD (third-year med-psych resident)
- Andy Tuck, MD (fourth-year psychiatry resident)
- Two med-psych residents won awards at the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry annual meeting:
- Gregg Robbins-Welty, MD (fourth-year) won the case vignette competition with his presentation, “Occam’s Toothbrush.”
- Sarah Eckstein, MD (second-year) won the poster competition with her case, “Methylphenidate Is a Potential Augmenting Agent for Catatonia.”
- Three residents were awarded 2023 graduate medical education graduation awards:
- Syeda Razia Haider, MD (fourth-year psychiatry resident) – Outstanding Resident Educator Award
- Cameron Strong, MD (fifth-year med-psych resident) – Outstanding Resident Clinician Award
- Adam Fijtman, MD, PhD (fourth-year psychiatry resident) – Outstanding Resident Researcher Award