Samuel Wilkinson, MD, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been chosen to receive a 2016 Chair’s Choice Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
Award recipients receive free registration at the society’s annual meeting, to be held May 12-14, 2016, in Atlanta. They will also receive a stipend of $2,000 to defray travel expenses and lodging in Atlanta, and special recognition at the President’s Reception on May 11, 2016.
Wilkinson was nominated for the award by John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neuroscience, and Chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry. Krystal will mentor Wilkinson at the meeting.
Five other affiliates of the Yale Department of Psychiatry have received travel awards to attend the meeting. They are are Youngsun Cho, MD, PhD, a third-year resident; Genevieve Yang, a Yale MD/PhD student at the beginning of her PhD phase; Gustavo Angarita-Africano, MD; Renato Polimanti, PhD; and Albert Powers, MD, PhD.
The Society of Biological Psychiatry was founded in 1945 to "encourage the study of the biological causes of and treatments for psychiatric disorders.” Its continuing purpose is to promote excellence in scientific research and education in fields that investigate the nature, causes, mechanisms, and treatments of disorders of thought, emotion, or behavior," according to its statement of purpose.