Yale Residency Program News
Stefanie Gillson, MD, a third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, wrote about the need for clinicians and others to acknowledge and appreciate the biological implications of historical trauma in a commentary published in Biological Psychiatry.
- September 05, 2019
Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD, a member of the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program at Yale, has been named the first recipient of a Professional Risk Management Services (PRMS)-endowed fellowship in collaboration with the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), a think tank of leading psychiatric minds.
- August 26, 2019
Zachary M. Harvanek, MD, PhD, a second year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and Hun Millard, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, co-wrote a column in the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry's AACAP News that touts the benefits of having an occupational therapist on a treatment team to increase positive hospitalization outcomes for patients.
- August 26, 2019
A manuscript of poems by Celeste Lipkes, MD, MFA, third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been judged a semi-finalist for the 2019 Berkshire Prize, a national poetry contest sponsored by Tupelo Press.
- July 16, 2019
The Yale Psychiatry Residents' Association (PRA) has elected new officers and activity representatives for 2019-2020.
- July 10, 2019
Emily Olfson, MD, PhD, a fourth-year resident in the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program, has been awarded the 2019 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Outstanding Resident Award. Olfson also has been chosen to receive a travel award through the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP).
- July 08, 2019
Two faculty and two residents in the Yale Department of Psychiatry spoke at the 2019 International Recovery and Citizenship Collective Conference in May in New Haven.
- July 08, 2019
Trainees, Faculty Advocated for New Law that Provides More Treatment for Opioid Addiction in Prisons
Legislation pushed by Yale Department of Psychiatry trainees and faculty that provides more treatment for opioid addicted jail and prison inmates in Connecticut has been signed into law by Gov. Ned Lamont.
- July 05, 2019
William Acosta, MD, who graduated from the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program in June 2019, and Zheala Qayyum, MBBS, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, are co-authors of a paper published in Psychiatric Quarterly that addresses the experiences of transgender adolescents in an inpatient psychiatric hospital. The study revealed that patients and care providers generally reported a supportive inpatient care environment.
- July 03, 2019
Flavia DeSouza, MD, MHS, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been awarded a 2019-20 fellowship position with the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA).
