Resident Awards & Publications

Thanos Rossopolous

Kie Fujii

Matt Abrams

2024 APA Public Psychiatry Fellowship

2024 Provided a presentation at the  SoCal LGBTQIA+ Health Conference titled, "Investigating the impacts of LGBTQ+ sports participation on health outcomes, socialization, and identity"

Published an article titled, "Association Between Online Reviews of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities and Drug-Induced Mortality Rates: Cross-Sectional Analysis", Dec. 2023

Published an article titled, "Translating and disseminating a localised economic model to support implementation of the 'Ending the HIV Epidemic' initiative to public health policymakers", Nov. 2023

Mikaela Miller

Nicole "Nix" Zelin

Neha Akkoor

2024 American Psychiatric Association Resident Recognition Award

2024 Matched at UCSD/VA Consult/Liaison Fellowship

Jacqui Kulbe

Kevin Yang

2024 APA Medical Student/Resident Poster Competition within the category of Psychosocial and Biomedical Research

2023-2024 Judd Symposium for Young Investigators Award

Lauren D'Andrea

2024 UC San Diego SOM Humanism in Medicine Resident Award in Psychiatry 

2023 JoAnn and Igor Grant Endowed Prize for Professional Excellence

Eric Geier

Mari Miyoshi

Kush Bhatt

Jack Hunt

2024 Judd Symposium for Young Investigators Award

2023 American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Scholar Award

Monica Feliz Castillo, M.D.

2024 was selected to participate in the APA Diversity Leadership Fellowship Program

2024 Matched at Columbia University/Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Hospitals for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship in the NIMH R25-funded Shaffer Scholars Research Program

2024 Anxiety and Depression Assoc (ADAA) Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP) - Basic Neuroscience/Clinical Research Track Award

2023 American Psychiatric Association Research Colloquium for Junior Psychiatrist Investigators

2023 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Educational Outreach Program for General Psychiatry Residents

2022 NIMH Outstanding Resident Award

2020-2021 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Travel Award

Noe Caballero

Sahana Malik, M.D.

American Psychiatric Association (APA) 2023 meeting – 1st place in the Medical Student/Resident Poster Competition under the category of Curriculum Development

Published an article titled, "Let's talk about race" July 2021

Katherine Kruckenberg, M.D.

Published an article titled, "Gut and bladder fermentation syndromes: a narrative review" 2024

2023 selected by the local branch of the APA, the San Diego Psychiatric Society (SDPS), to represent SDPS at the Annual Federal Advocacy Conference in Washington DC 

Published an article titled, "Transplant-related trauma, personal growth and alcohol use outcomes in a cohort of patients receiving transplants for alcohol-associated liver disease" September 2021

Niraj Asthana, M.D.

"COVID-19 Associated Suicidal Ideation in Older Adults: Two Case Reports With a Review of the Literature" June 2021

Christine Pulido

Allison Cabrera

Anaheed Shirazi

Lu Wu

2023 Lewis L Judd Award

2023 JoAnn and Igor Grant Endowed Prize for Professional Excellence

2023 George Ginsberg Fellowship

Natalie Fettinger, M.D.

2020-2019 UCSD SOM Humanism in Medicine Resident Award

David Adamowicz, M.D.

2023 Lewis L Judd Research Award

2020-2021 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Scholar Award

2021 NIMH Outstanding Resident Award

Adamowicz DH, Lee EE. Predicting and improving hospital outcomes for older adults. Int Psychogeriatr. 2021 Mar;33(3):205-207. PMID: 33781361

Tom Dixion

Hewa Artin, M.D.

"How do serotonergic psychedelics treat depression: The potential role of neuroplasticity" June 2021

Alison Cesarz, M.D.

Pierce, K., Shapiro, G., Song, S., Fortuna, L., Postlethwaite, A., Cesarz, A., Feder, J. Youth at the border: Do NO MORE Harm. Accepted for presentation as a clinical perspective at the annual American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Meeting in San Francisco, October 2020.

Cesarz, A., Postlethwaite, A., Wu, M., Ranjan Dube, A., Sturner, R. "El No Es Mi Padre": A Discussion of the Practical and Ethical Dilemmas in the Case of a Psychotic Immigrant Teen. Accepted for presentation as a clinical case conference at annual American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting in San Francisco, October 2020.

Abigail Clark, M.D.

2019-2020 American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Fellow

2018-2019 UCSD SOM Humanism in Medicine Resident Award

Published an article titled, "Bereavement and Depression" August 2021

Eric Debbold, M.D.

Published a commentary in the San Diego Tribune, "The opioid crisis in the United States is well-known, but many in San Diego are unaware of the realities" June 2021

Monica Federoff, M.D.

2020 NIMH Outstanding Resident Award

Eamonn Mehaffey, M.D.

Published an article titled, "COVID-19 Associated Suicidal Ideation in Older Adults: Two Case Reports With a Review of the Literature" June 2021

Tarina Quraishi, M.D.

2020-2021 UCSD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inclusive Excellence Scholar

Rebecca Sturner, M.D.

Cesarz, A., Postlethwaite, A., Wu, M., Ranjan Dube, A., Sturner, R. "El No Es Mi Padre": A Discussion of the Practical and Ethical Dilemmas in the Case of a Psychotic Immigrant Teen. Accepted for presentation as a clinical case conference at annual American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting in San Francisco, October 2020.

Sara Timtim, M.D.

2020-2021 APA Research Colloquium for Junior Psychiatrists

Kevin Luo, M.D.

2018-2019 JoAnn and Igor Grant Prize for Professional Excellence

Andrew Allen, M.D.

2018-2019 JoAnn and Igor Grant Prize for Professional Excellence

2018-2019 UCSD SOM Humanism in Medicine Resident Award

Eric Rafla-Yuan, M.D.

2018-2019 APA/APAF SAMHSA funded Minority Fellowship Program

2016 Best Trainee Poster Award at the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) Annual Meeting

Juan Molina, M.D.

2019 Travel Awardee for the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

2019 Selected, Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, Council on Research

2019 American Psychiatric Association Foundation/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship ($25,000)

2018 NIH Loan Repayment Program Awardee

Molina JL, Voytek B, Thomas ML, Joshi YB, Bhakta SG, Talledo J, Swerdlow NR, Light GA. Memantine effects on EEG measures of cortical excitatory/inhibitory balance in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroimaging (in press) 2020.

Light GA, Joshi YB, Molina, JL, Bhakta SG, Nungaray J, Cardoso L, Kotz, JE, Thomas, ML, Swerdlow NR. Neurophysiological biomarkers for schizophrenia therapeutics. Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry (in press) 2020.

Hochberger WC, Thomas ML, Joshi YB, Molina J, Treichler EB, Nungaray J, Cardoso L, Sprock J, Swerdlow NR, Light GA. Oscillatory biomarkers of early auditory information processing predict cognitive gains following targeted cognitive training in schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research 215:97-104, 2020.

Joshi Y, Thomas ML, Hochberger WC, Bismark AW, Treichler EB, Molina J, Nungaray J, Cardoso L, Sprock J, Swerdlow NR, Light GA. Verbal learning deficits associated with increased anticholinergic burden is attenuated with targeted cognitive training in treatment refractory schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research 208:384-389, 2019.

Koshiyama D, Makoto Miyakoshi M, Joshi YB, Molina JL, Tanaka-Koshiyama K, Sprock J, Braff DL, Swerdlow NR, Light GA. Abnormal effective connectivity underlying auditory mismatch negativity impairments in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry: CNNI (in press) 2020.

Yash Joshi, M.D., Ph.D.

2018 ASCP Clinical Trials Workship Fellowship

2018 AAGP/GMHF Research Scholar

2018 APA Research Colloquium for Junior Investigator

2018 SOBP Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship

2018 ACP Laughlin

2018 NIMH Outstanding Resident Award

2018 NNCI BRAIN Fellowship

2017 ANCP Memorial Travel Award

Michael Langley DeGroot, M.D.

2016-2018 Psychiatrists PRITE Fellowship

2016 Outstanding Intern Teaching Award 2016

2016 Gold Humanism Award, UCSD Medical School American College of Psychiatrists PRITE Fellowship

2016 APA/APAF Selection Committee Fellowship

2016 ACP PRITE Fellowship

Matt Klein, M.D., Ph.D.

2019 Travel Awardee for the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

2019 The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) Early Career Award

2018 NIMH Outstanding Resident Award

2017 John A. Majda Memorial Fund Award

Klein ME, Chandra J, Sheriff S, Malinow R. Opioid system is necessary but not sufficient for antidepressive actions of ketamine in rodents. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 117(5):2656-2662, 2020

Klein ME, Younts TJ, Cobo CF, Buxbaum A, Aow J, Erdjument-Bromage H, Richard S, Malinow R, Neubert TA, Singer RH et al. Sam68 Enables Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Dependent LTD in Distal Dendritic Regions of CA1 Hippocampal Neurons. Cell Reports 29:1789-1799, 2019. PMCID: PMC6871770

Aryandokht Fotros, M.D.

Haoyu Lee, M.D.