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Amber Khan, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, and Michelle Conroy, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Open Science, Education, and Practice that discusses implementation of a novel historically-informed health justice curriculum in the geriatric psychiatry fellowship program at Yale School of Medicine.

Yale Child Study Center Assistant Clinical Professor David Sasso traveled to Washington, DC in September with a delegation of 40 healthcare professionals to speak with members of Congress and their staff about issues surrounding antisemitism in healthcare.

Joy Hirsch, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and professor of comparative medicine and of neuroscience, and her long-time dance partner, Richard Diaz, won national championships in both the classical ballroom and Latin categories at the National Dance Council of America Empire Dance Championships in Jersey City, N.J., Aug. 2-3.

Sarah Yip, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the APT Foundation in New Haven.

Ashley Schnakenberg Martin, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been awarded the 2024 American Psychological Association Division 18 Psychologists in Public Service Early Career Achievement Award.

This JAMA Internal Medicine Viewpoint explores the 2023 White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, which seeks to change how women’s health research is approached and funded to improve the lives of women and the health of the nation.

Christie Musket, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, and Ashley Schnakenberg Martin, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are lead and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Behavioral Sciences that examines the relationship between group-based Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy participation and recovery-oriented beliefs.

Jeremy Weleff, DO, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, and Maria Gabriela Garcia Vassallo, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are lead and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in The American Journal on Addictions that surveys addiction specialists on the influence of high-potency synthetic opioids on clinical practice, views on current medications for opioid use disorder regulations, and openness to novel therapies such as slow-release oral morphine.

With more people consuming more potent cannabis more often, a growing number, mostly chronic users, are enduring serious health consequences. Featuring YSM's Deepak Cyril D’Souza