Yale Residency Program News

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

Darja Djordjevic, MD, PhD, a second-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, wrote an article published in BioSocieties that examines how Rwandan patients understand and represent cancer, as well as how state actors articulate the agenda of public oncology and related expectations of citizens.

Lilanthi Balasuriya, MD, MMS, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and Jessica Isom, MD, MPH, a 2019 graduate of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program, reflected on their experiences in the Harvard Macy Program for Post-Graduate Trainees.

Tanner Bommersbach, MD, MPH, a second-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and Hun Millard, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, write in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry about the increasing prevalence of Hikikomori -- the withdrawal of adolescents or adults from society -- outside of Japan.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry honored residents, fellows, and faculty at its annual Commencement ceremony on June 13, 2019.