An instructor, a resident, and three fellows with the Yale Department of Psychiatry have been honored with major awards from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP).
Gustavo Angarita-Africano, MD, Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Inpatient Chief of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, was the academy’s Early Career awardee.
Stephanie Yarnell, MD, PhD, a third-year resident, was honored with the Area I award. Area 1 encompasses all of New England, and the award is given to one psychiatry resident in the region.
Fellows Mona Thapa, MD; Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD; and Noah Capurso, MD, MHS, were honored with travel awards, which will sponsor their trip to the AAAP’s 26th annual meeting and science symposium, to be held December 3-6 in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Angarita-Africano and Yarnell will also attend the meeting, and will present at the symposium.
The symposium will feature lectures, focus groups, workshops, exhibits, and an awards ceremony.
According to its mission statement, the AAAP “promotes high quality evidence-based screening, assessment and treatment for substance use and co-occurring mental disorders.” It works to strengthen addiction psychiatry specialty training, and to foster careers in addiction psychiatry.
Among the members of the academy’s Board of Directors is Ismene L. Petrakis, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Yale and Chief of Psychiatry at the VA Health Center in West Haven.
Members of the Editorial Board of the AAAP’s “American Journal on Addictions” include Kathleen M. Carroll, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry; Mark N. Potenza, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry; and Mehmet Sofuoglu, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry.