The Resident Psychiatric Educator Award program was created to honor psychiatry residents/fellows who demonstrate particular promise as educators and scholars in the field of academic psychiatry. Please read the following Description and Benefits Resident Psychiatric Educator awardees will receive during this unique two year award period. 

This award represents an important professional experience, offering transformative and enjoyable opportunities to academic psychiatry’s best trainees each year. 

Description

• Created to honor psychiatry residents who demonstrate particular promise as educators and scholars in academic psychiatry.
• A two-year award. 

• ​Fellows must present posters/workshop/WIPs at the Annual Meeting to receive complimentary meeting registration year 2

• ​Fellows network with national educators and obtain mentoring
• Number: maximum of 8.

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Benefits

• Complimentary AAP Membership - 2 years
• Complimentary Academic Psychiatry online subscription - 2 years
• Complimentary Annual Meeting registration  - 2 years*
• Reimbursement for meeting-related hotel and meal expenses - year 1
• Plaque

​* To receive complimentary meeting registration year 2 of the award, Residents and Fellows must present a poster, workshop, or WIP. Submissions must be received by the posted deadline.

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Application Guidelines​

• ​Residents/fellows may be nominated by the department chair, vice-chair (education), director of residency education or a faculty member. Trainees must be a PGY-3 or above and be in training at the time of the award. 
• Current CV (resident nominee). 
• Resident/fellow nominee personal statement. The statement must describe the nominee's vision for their career as an academic psychiatrist and how this award may help them to achieve those goals. Statement is limited to a maximum of 500 words. 
• Two or three letters of support from departmental members (e.g., chair, training director, supervisor), each approximately two pages in length commenting on: 
  • ​The trainee’s demonstrated ability as a teacher (emphasized in the award selection process); 
  • ​The trainee’s commitment to an academic career; 
  • ​The department’s interest and plans for fostering the trainee’s professional, academic, and personal growth, including a statement of the department’s willingness to provide partial financial support for the candidate if they are selected as an awardee (departmental support is not used as a selection criterion and is not a consideration of the Award Committee when choosing recipients of the award); 
  • ​Publications, presentations, and educational, or research projects in which the nominee has played a major role; 
  • and Personal qualities that bear upon the nominee’s capacities in academic medicine and describing relevant experiences in the teaching/learning continuum.

​Electronic submission is required. All materials should be included in a single .pdf submission. 

Note: Nominees for AAP Resident Psychiatric Education award will be judged first and foremost on merit, based on the criteria above. Only one nomination per institution is allowed. Programs where multiple residents express interest are asked to conduct an internal process to select one resident to support.

Thank you for your interest. The Awards Portal is NOW CLOSED! Submissions for the 2027 Resident Psychiatric Education Award will open January 2, 2027. 

FOR INQUIRIES ONLY, contact Richard Ly, MD, Trainee Engagement Committee Chair, at richardly@samhealth.org. Award submissions sent to this address will not be accepted for consideration. 

* To receive complimentary meeting registration year 2 of the award, Residents and Fellows must present a poster, workshop, or WIP. Submissions must be received by the posted deadline.

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Tips for Nominations

• ​Nomination by faculty or chair 
• ​Demonstrated ability as a teacher 
• ​Commitment to an academic career 
• ​Impact desirable (e.g., publication, presentations, projects) 
• ​Personal qualities that set the nominee apart

Award Recipients

2025 

Poojajeet Kaur Khaira, MD 

Athena Ko, MDCM 

Kayla Sue Murphy, MD 

Rohini Paul, DO 

Andrew Phan, MD

Heidi June Stahl, MD 

Vincent Tang, MD 

Jeffrey Woods, MD 
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2024 

Chetan Girijanand Bhat, MD 

Dustin Avery Brinker, MD, MHPE 

Alexis Carnduff, MD 

Dallas Hamlin, MD 

Hania Ibrahim, MD 

Chengxi Li, MD 

Liad Maslaton, MD 

Elizabeth Steuber, MD 
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2023 

Khalid Elzamzamy, MD, MA 

David E. Freedman, MD 

Wayles Haynes, MD, MFA 

Kimberly S. Hsiung, MD, MS 

Sally Huang, MD, MS 

James H. Lee, MD 

Omar Munoz Abraham, MD 

Shelley Rote, MD 

Nikhita Singhal, MD 

Erene Stergiopoulos, MD, MA
 

2022 

Raheel Chaudhry, MD 

Michael A. Donath, MD 

Zeeshan N. Mansuri, MD, MPH 

Marco Christian Michael, MD 

Danielle N. Morelli, MD 

Ihuoma O. Njoku, MD 

Tolu Odebunmi, MBBS, MPH 

Jessica J. Stephens, DO 
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2021 

Molly Howland, MD 

Paresh Atu Jaini, DO 

Alexis W. Kropf, MD 

Benson S. Ku, MD 

Jane Ma, MD 

David Mauricio Martinez Garza, MD 

Badr Ratnakaran, MBBS 

Sandra Westcott, MD 
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2020 

Jordan Bawks, MD 

Heather Buxton, MD 

Veronica Faller, MD 

Fiona Fonseca, MD, MS 

Andrew Halls, MD 

Kathryn Kinasz, MD 

Janee Mestrovich, DO 

Elise Scott, MD 2019 

Jessica Bentzley, MD 

Alaa Elnajjar, MBBCh, MSc 

Lu Gao, MD 

Rachel Hammer, MD 

Katherine Jong, MD 

Lianna Karp, MD 

Zain Khalid, MD 

Asfand "Andy" Khan, MD 
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2018 

Philip B. Cawkwell, MD 

Michael H. Langley-DeGroot, MD 

Lindsay G. Lebin, MD 

Daniel J. Lee, MD 

Mimi P. Levine, MD 

Ralph R. McKenzie, Jr., DO 

Phaedra Pascoe, MD 

Alissa Petrites, MD 

Daniela Rakocevic, MD, MSc 

Charles Whitmore, MD, MPH 
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2017 

Sarah E. Baker, MD 

Srinath Gopinath, MBBS 

Laura Beth Kaplan, MD 

Anne K. Leonpacher, MD 

Roberto E. Montenegro, MD, PhD 

John A. Pesavento, MD 

Laura Jin Pientka, DO 

Judith Puckett, MD 

Megan Riddle, MD, PhD, MS 
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2016 

​Muhammad Awais Aftab, MD, MBBS 

Mohsina Fatima Ahmed, MD 

Jai C. Gandhi, MD 

Jessica Ashley Gold, MD, MSc 

Abhisek C. Khandai, MD 

Jeremy D. Kidd, MD, MPH 

Michela “Mimi” Owusu, MD, MSc, MGH 

Michael R. Walker, MD 
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2015 

Joshua Hubregsen, MD 

Robert Scott Johnson, MD, JD, LLM 

Nathan S. Johnston, DO, MS 

Lauren Koehler, MD 

Wynne Lundblad, MD 

David E. Marcovitz, MD 

Michael Neszt, MDCM 
Maja Skikic, MD 
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2014 

Danielle M. Chammas, MD 

Andrea L. Crowell, MD 

James R. Haliburton, MD 

Debra Hamer, MD 

Venkata B. Kolli, MBBS 

Anne E. Penner, MD 

Thomas A. Soeprono, MD 

Isheeta Zalpuri, MD 
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2013 

Alexis D. Armenakis, MD 

Rachel Anne Caravella, MD 

Lisa N. Clement, MD 

Marley Doyle, MD 

Chris A. Karampahtsis, MD, MPH 

Laura McLafferty 

Eric G. Meyer, II, MD 

Heather Speller Vestal, MD, MHS 
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2012 

Michaela Beder, MD 

Mirjana Jojic, MD 

Peter R. Knudsen, MD 

Jesse Markman, MD, MBA 

Mark Newman, MD 

Lee A. Robinson, MD 

Lokesh Shahani, MD, MPH 
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2011 

Priya Raju, MD 

Kerry Elise Wilkins, MD 

Danielle N. Wroblewski, MD, MPH 

Melanie L. Zupancic, MD 
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2010 

Thomas Cantey, MD 

Carla Marienfeld, MD 

Weronika Micula-Gondek, MD 

Jennifer Milone, MD 

Shawn Sidhu, MD 

Priya Sonik, MD 

Felicia Wong, MD 

Marika Wrzosek, MD 
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2009 

​Jennifer Alt, MD 

Deidre Davis, MD J

anet Ellis, MD 

Iljie Fitzgerald, MD, MS 

Rebecca Gladding, MD 

Sarah Johnson, MD 

Milap Nowrangi, MD 

Kanwar Sidhu, MD 
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2008 

Mohammad Alsuwaidan, MD 

Brian K. Cooke, MD 

Tracy H. McCarthy, MD 

Rachel C. Molander, MD 

Emiko Moniwa, MD 

Divy Ravindranath, MD 

Glendon Tait, MD 
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2007 

Lana Benedek, MD 

Krauz Ganadjian, MD 

Brian T. Hyatt, MD 

Glendon Ralph Tait, MD 

Andrea Waddell, MD 
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2006 

Shirley Alleyne, MD 

Lana Benedek, MD 

Jason P. Caplan, MD 

Jennifer Heath, MD 

Rebecca O'Donnell, MD 

Andrea Waddell, MD 
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2005 

Teresa Bennett, MD 

Kelly Harding, MD 

Anita R. Kishore, MD 

Theresa M. Matuszak, MD 
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2004 

Gregg Dwyer, MD, EdD 

Lewis P. Krain, MD 

Christopher H. Warner, MD 
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2003 

Amin Azzam, MD 

Judith Bealke, MD 

Adam J. Goldyne, MD 

Robert M. Jarvis, MD 

Val Taylor, MD 
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2001 

Kristopher Kaliebe, MD 

Nancy Sheng-Shih Wu, MD 

Jodi Ellen Star, MD 

Lisa Seyfried, MD 
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2000 

Jonathan Mckinsey, MD 

Marcelo Eizner, MD 

Ernestina Pelayo De Olivares, MD 

Stephen Siegel, MD 
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1999 

​Todd Cox, MD 

Andrew Klafer, MD 

Zohar Waisman, MD 
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1998 

Eleanor Burlingham, MD 

Charles Devine, MD 

Kevin A. Mack, MD 

Jennifer M. Pasternak, MD 

Cesar Soutullo, MD 
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1997 

Kiki D. Chang, MD 

Diana M. Hughes, MD 

Waguith William Ishak, MD 

Zachary Solomon, MD 
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1996 

Tammy Binder, MD 

Stacy A. Davids, MD 

Robert Remington Franklin, MD 

Sherri-Hansen-Grant, MD 

Celia Jenkins, MD 

Joseph V. Penn, MD