Elie Abdelnour, MD; Catherine Burke, PsyD; and Adrienne Hicks, MD, PhD, assistant professors of psychiatry, have been invited to participate in the 2025-26 Education Scholar Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine.

The goal of the fellowship is to develop clinician educators who will provide educational leadership, scholarship, and program development at the medical school. Participants learn educational scholarship skills necessary for program development and evaluation and design an educational project with guided mentorship.

The fellowship concludes at Medical Education Day at Yale and a poster session on June 4, 2026. It is sponsored by the Yale Center for Medical Education.

Abdelnour primarily serves as an inpatient psychiatrist on Celentano 1, a 24-bed psychiatric unit at the St. Raphael Campus of Yale New Haven Hospital. He supervises second-year psychiatry residents and medical students who rotate on the unit.

Burke provides clinical care for adults in the legal system who present with addiction and comorbid disorders, and conducts forensic evaluations for the courts. Her research interests are focused on the education of fellows and the intersection of addiction and the criminal legal system.

Hicks intends to develop a project about how to improve pain management in African-American women to prevent stigma of substance abuse by lowering rates of addiction and decreasing child mortality by overall improving health care.