Department of Psychiatry Internal Awards

Mike Bloom Leadership Fund in Psychiatry

The Mike Bloom Leadership Fund in Psychiatry has been established to recognize staff who demonstrate ideals of kindness, thoughtfulness, fairness, compassion and wisdom.

JoAnn and Igor Grant Endowed Prize for Professional Excellence in a Psychiatry Resident

The purpose of the endowed Fund is to recognize exceptional clinical care by providing an annual prize to adult and child psychiatry residents in each year of training who demonstrate the highest degree of professional growth, indexed by such attributes as: passion for learning; respectful teamwork with their mentors, fellow trainees, and health care staff; devotion to patients; demonstration of development of clinical excellence; and a selfless attitude. This endowed prize shall be selected and administered by the Department of Psychiatry. Candidates shall be nominated by clinical supervisors of the units and clinics to which the resident was assigned that year, and finalists selected by a committee established by the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. Assuming suitable candidates, six prizes, including cash awards of approximately $500 will be awarded to the finalists in each of the four years of adult residency and each of the two years of child fellowship. See the nomination form.

Past recipients

2019 - Adult Psychiatry Year 1: Morrison Steel, MD

2019 - Adult Psychiatry Year 2: Chun (Kevin) Luo, MD

2019 - Adult Psychiatry Year 3: Andrew Allen, MD

2019 - Adult Psychiatry Year 4: Mian Jan, MD

2019 - Child Psychiatry Year 1: Joseph R. Hall, MD

2019 - Child Psychiatry Year 2: Sarah Chung, MD

2020 - Adult Psychiatry Year 1: Kristen Kim, MD
2020 - Adult Psychiatry Year 2: Morrison Steel, MD
2020 - Adult Psychiatry Year 3: Belinda Daniel, MD
2020 - Adult Psychiatry Year 4: Keren Friedman, MD
2020 - Child Psychiatry Year 1: Paven Lidstone, MD
2020 - Child Psychiatry Year 2: Joseph Hall, MD
2021 - Adult Psychiatry Year 1: Zoey ZoBell, MD
2021 - Adult Psychiatry Year 2: Kristen Kim, MD
2021 - Adult Psychiatry Year 3: Anish Dhamija, MD, MS
2021 - Adult Psychiatry Year 4: Tiffany Castillo, MD
2021 - Child Psychiatry Year 1: Aisha Omorodion, MD
2021 - Child Psychiatry Year 2: Paven Lidstone, MD
2022 - Adult Psychiatry Year 1: Eric Geier, MD, PhD
2022 - Adult Psychiatry Year 2: Zoey ZoBell, MD
2022 - Adult Psychiatry Year 3: Allison Harter, MD
2022 - Adult Psychiatry Year 4: Alison Cesarz, MD
2022 - Child Psychiatry Year 2: Peter Kass, MD

2023 - Adult Psychiatry Year 1: Lauren D’Andrea, MD

2023 - Adult Psychiatry Year 1: Mari Miyoshi, MD

2023 - Adult Psychiatry Year 2: Kush Bhat, MD

2023 - Adult Psychiatry Year 3: Noe Caballero, MD

2023 - Adult Psychiatry Year 4: Lu Wu, MD

2023 - Child Psychiatry Year 1: Sree Reddy, DO

2023 - Child Psychiatry Year 2: Nisha Patel, MD

2024 - Adult Psychiatry Year 1: Kie Fujii, MD, MBA

2024 - Adult Psychiatry Year 2: Kevin Yang, MD

2024 - Adult Psychiatry Year 3: Kush Bhatt, MD

2024 - Adult Psychiatry Year 4: Jessica Kriksciun, MD

2024 - Child Psychiatry Year 1: Kayla Chory, DO

2024 - Child Psychiatry Year 2: Kristen Kim, MD

Lewis L. Judd Award for Outstanding Research during UCSD Psychiatry Residency

Past recipients
1985 John Kelsoe, MD
1986 Mark Rapaport, MD
1987 D. Stewart Bell, MD and Steven Ornish, MD
1988 Alan Berkowitz, MD
1989 Mark Magulac, MD
1989 Daniel Sewell, MD
1990 Robert Anthenelli MD and Nancy Downs, MD
1991 Neal Swerdlow, MD, PhD
1992 Patricia Gilbert, MD
1993 Michael Lardon, MD
1994 Annette Pozos, MD
1995 David Feifel, MD, PhD
1996 Jeffrey Pyne, MD
1997 Martin Paulus, MD
1998 Carl Taswell, MD, PhD
1999 Eric Raimo, MD
2000 Shannon Robinson, MD
2001 Laura Dunn, MD
2002 A. Niculescu, MD, PhD
2003 Alvaro Camacho, MD
2004 David Lehman, MD
2005 Ryan Kimmel, MD, PhD
2006 Alejandra Postlethwaite, MD
2007 Sarah Simmons, MD
2008 Reshma Bhat, MD
2009 Michael McCarthy, MD, PhD and Fiza Singh, MD
2010 Steve Koh, MD and Jeanne Maglione, MD, PhD
2011 John Keltner, MD, PhD
2012 Robert Gorney, MD
2013 Lawrence Malak, MD
2014 Abesh Bhattacharjee, MD, PhD and Mario Salguero MD
2015 Andrea Gallardo, MD
2016 Joshua Tartaglione, DO
2017 Lauren Anderson, MD
2018 Aryandokht Fotros, MD and Alejandro Meruelo, MD, PhD
2019 Samantha Friend, MD, PhD and Maryam Soltani, MD, PhD
2020 Matthew Klein, MD, PhD and Ronit Lyon, MD 
2021 Xia Li, MD, PhD and Jeffrey Wyss, MD 
2022 Abigail Clark, MD, PhD and Sarita Shah, MD, PhD
2023 David Adamowicz, MD, PhD, Thomas Dixon, MD, PhD, Christine Pulido, MD, and Lu Wu, MD
2024 Monica R. Castillo, MD and Noe Caballero, MD

Jared Purton Schizophrenia Research Travel Awards

Past recipients

2017 Ellen Lee, MD

2018 Blaire Schembari, PhD

2018 Savita Bhakta, MD

2018 Sonia Milkin, PhD

2018 Zanjbeel Mahmood

2018 Emily Treichler, PhD

2019 Yash Joshi, MD, PhD

2019 Kyle Mitchell, PhD

2019 Kristen Dwyer, PhD

2019 Skylar Kelsven

2019 Yash Joshi, MD, PhD

Justine Cohen Award for Outstanding Research in Schizophrenia

Past recipients

2015 Savita Bhakta, MD

2016 Isabel Domingues, MD

2017 Yash Joshi, MD, PhD

2018 none

2019 Ellen Lee, MD

2020 Juan Molina, MD

2022 David Adamowicz, MD, PhD