Nichole Roxas, MD, MPH, a 2022 graduate of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program, was recently awarded the inaugural Mark DeAntonio Award in Child Psychiatry at UCLA, where she is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow.
The award is given in memory of the late Dr. Mark DeAntonio, a graduate of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program and clinical psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.
Dr. DeAntonio died in 2021, and the named award is given annually to a second-year child psychiatry fellow who best exemplifies the qualities he possessed:
- Deeply humane commitment to children and families requiring intensive psychiatric care;
- Exceptional empathy and capacity to engage children with severe mental illness;
- Unusual leadership and collaboration skills in interdisciplinary care;
- Extraordinary involvement in teaching the next generation of child mental health providers.
Roxas was voted the first recipient of the award by the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry teaching faculty in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry. The faculty determined she was the fellow who best exemplifies Dr. DeAntonio’s unwavering commitment to children and families in need of intensive psychiatric care, dedication to teaching, and collaborative approach in interdisciplinary care settings.
The award was presented to Roxas on February 21. The speaker at the ceremony was John Walkup, MD, who was in Dr. DeAntonio’s residency class at Yale School of Medicine.