Yale Residency Program News

Residents Nicholas Pratt, MD, RN, and Ricky Madhavan, MD, and Jeremy Weleff, DO, instructor of psychiatry collaborated on a viewpoint in JAMA Pediatrics that describes the use of large language model chatbots in social, educational, and therapeutic settings and the need to assess when children are developmentally ready to engage with them.

Julio Nunes, MD, second-year resident; Jeremy Weleff, DO, instructor of psychiatry; and Joao P. De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are co-authors of a review in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology that discusses the fundamentals of pain assessment for populations with opioid use disorder.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry on March 15 announced its 2024 Match Class for the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program.

Julio Nunes, MD, second-year resident, is senior author on a paper in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism that investigates the role of topiramate in mitigating weight gain among children receiving second-generation antipsychotics.

Sirikanya (Sanya) Chiraroekmongkon, MD, fourth-year resident, has been named to the University of Florida’s prestigious 40 Gators Under 40 list.

Erin Davidowicz, MD, fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, was selected for the Advanced Research Fellowship in Women’s Health through the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.

Yang Jae Lee, MD, a third-year resident in the Neuroscience Research Training Program, is one of 33 physician-scientists across all medical specialties to have been selected to receive the 2024 Emerging-Generation (E-Gen) Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Patients who use cannabis while being medically treated for opioid use disorder are not at greater risk of returning to non-medical opioid use, a new meta-analysis by Yale researchers reveals. Joao P. De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Julio Nunes, MD, a second-year psychiatry resident, are co-authors.

Recreational use of nitrous oxide, also known as “laughing gas, “whippets,” or “whippits,” can cause severe, permanent damage. But a timely response can treat some of the most devastating effects, Yale experts say.