October 8, 2018
The Executive Committee of the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, would like to acknowledge and congratulate the trainees and faculty who received the following HMS Psychiatry Awards and Fellowships during the 2017-2018 academic year. It is a marvelous way to celebrate our vibrant combined academic community.
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William Greenberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Thomas Gutheil, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- John Sharp, MD, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Elisa Cheng, MD, Instructor in Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance
- Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Jae Kim, PhD, McLean Hospital – “Clathrin Nanoparticles Efficiently Deliver Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) to the Hippocampus, Reverse BDNF Deficits and Enhance Neurogenesis and Memory in a HIV-Tat mouse model”
- Rajan Sonik, PhD, MPH, Cambridge Health Alliance – “Inpatient Medicaid cost and utilization patterns after changes in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit levels”
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Daniel Talmasov, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital – “Neuroanatomically Diverse Brain Lesions Causing Mania are Functionally Connected to the Ventral Anterior Insular Cortex and Dorsal Anterior Amygdala in Humans”
Dupont Warren Fellows – Awarded to HMS Psychiatry Residents to create opportunities for advanced study and research in Psychiatry, and to serve as a bridge between clinical training and the development of a research career.
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David Mou, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital – “Ecological assessments of suicidal thoughts and behaviors during inpatient psychiatric treatments”
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Daniel Talmasov, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital – “Comparison of functional brain connectivity in lesion-induced mania and bipolar mania”
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Jacob Taylor, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital – “Evidence-based collection of phenotypic data in large-scale psychiatric genetic studies”
Kaplen Fellowship on Depression – This Fellowship was endowed specifically to support training in research on depression and allied affective disorders.
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Martha Falkenstein, PhD, McLean Hospital – “Interpretation bias as a predictor of suicidality in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”
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Ana Progovac, PhD, Cambridge Health Alliance – “Assessing the long-run effectiveness and implementation of an integrated behavioral health home (BHH) for patients with bipolar and major depressive disorders”
Norman E. Zinberg Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry Research - This Fellowship was endowed specifically to support training in research on alcohol and drug use disorders.
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Michael Flores, PhD, Cambridge Health Alliance – “A mixed-methods study to understand the individual, clinical, service use, and neighborhood-level predictors of opioid-related mortality”
Livingston Award – This award provides support to beginning investigators in psychiatric research.
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Kate Bentley, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital – “Pilot study of a transdiagnostic, emotion-focused group intervention for young adults with substance use disorders”
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Fernando de Moura, PhD, McLean Hospital – “Examination of nAChR/MOR agonist combinations in a concurrent tail withdrawal/Operant Responding Assay”
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Martha Falkenstein, PhD, McLean Hospital – “Interpretation bias as a predictor of suicidality in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”
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Jessica Harder, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital – ”Inflammation and depression across the menstrual cycle”
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Ryan Jacoby, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital – “Cognitive control as a transdiagnostic neurocognitive process in repetitive negative thinking”
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Sinead Kelly, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – “Investigating white matter microstructure and neuroinflammation across the psychosis spectrum using brain-based biotypes”
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David Mou, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital – “Ecological assessments of suicidal thoughts and behaviors during inpatient psychiatric treatments”
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Ana Progovac, PhD, Cambridge Health Alliance – “Assessing the long-run effectiveness and implementation of an integrated behavioral health home (BHH) for patients with bipolar and major depressive disorders”
- Jacob Taylor, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital – “Evidence-based collection of phenotypic data in large-scale psychiatric genetic studies”