Yasna Rostam Abadi, MD, MPH, a resident in the Neuroscience Research Training Program, has been awarded an Early Career Research Award by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP).
The award is given to residents, fellows, or early-career psychiatrists based on the quality of original research in the field of substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric disorders.
Rostam Abadi will be honored at the AAAP Annual Meeting held Nov. 6-9 in San Francisco.
Her research interests focus on using electronic health records, unstructured notes, and spoken narrative responses to identify clinical and behavioral patterns underlying mental illness. Her work has been published in The Lancet Psychiatry, The Lancet Global Health, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Addiction.