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Abiba Salahou, MD

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Psychiatry Resident
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Psychiatry Resident

Biography

Abiba Salahou is a resident physician in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. She is currently a 2024-2025 APA SAMHSA Minority Fellow and a member of the national Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her clinical interests include childhood trauma, racial socialization, race-based trauma (RBT), acculturation stress, and immigrant mental health. She has a strong interest in narrative medicine and served as a 2022-2023 Doximity Op-Med Writing Fellow. She is also interested in medical education and serves as a mentor to premedical and medical students. She is passionate about community organizing, antiracism, restorative social justice work, and de-stigmatizing mental illness. She has presented her work at national conferences including the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). She plans to serve diverse communities as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.

Abiba is currently enrolled in the Yale Young Physicians' Leadership Curriculum, is a mentor in the Yale Post Graduate Association MAP program, and is actively involved in the Yale Psychiatry Residents' Association (PRA) through leadership roles on the Social and Orientation Committees.

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Education & Training

MD
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (2023)

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2023

2021

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    APA SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Award

  • activity

    Racism as Trauma: The Impact of Intergenerational Trauma on Black Youth.

  • honor

    USPHS Excellence in Public Health Award

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    Center for Community Engagement Service Award

  • activity

    Suicidality in Black Children and Adolescents: A Second Look

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