Neil Bruce, MD, who completed his general psychiatry residency at Yale, has been named co-chief resident for the 2017-18 academic year for the NYU Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program.
Bruce is a PGY-4 child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at NYU. He completed three years of residency training at Yale before matching into NYU’s competitive fellowship program in 2016.
While at Yale, Bruce assessed rates of conversion to psychosis in at-risk patients prescribed antidepressants using data from the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study. He was a co-recipient of the 2016 Benjamin S. Bunney Award, presented annually by the Psychiatry Residents’ Association (PRA) to a resident who has demonstrated exceptional service to the PRA mission of advocacy for residents and patients, clinical care, and education.
Bruce earned his BA from Miami University in 2008 and his MD from West Virginia University in 2013.