Chadrick Lane, MD, a third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been accepted into the 2017 Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Honors Scholar Program.
The program was developed to expose medical students and young physicians to the field of geriatric psychiatry and to increase the number of medical professionals trained to care for older adults.
It provides for the mentorship and educational development of medical students and psychiatry residents through participating in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP).
Lane will attend the AAGP’s Annual Meeting in March 2017 in Dallas. Among the many benefits of the scholarship, he will receive a one-year membership to AAGP, complimentary registration to the annual meeting and accommodations, and a stipend to help defray his cost of travel to the meeting.
He must work on a scholarly project related to geriatric psychiatry with a mentor, and will be offered the opportunity to present his work at the 2018 AAGP Annual Meeting in Hawaii.
Lane in 2016 was honored with the Ira Levine Award by the Yale Department of Psychiatry. The award was established in 2004 to recognize outstanding PGY-2 psychiatry residents who best embody the qualities of clinical excellence, breadth of learning, and devotion to care of severe psychiatric illness exemplified by Dr. Levine.