Resident Achievements 2022–2023
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Leadership and Professional Development
Samir Abu-Hamad was nominated to the Gold Humanism Honor Society as a resident nominee and is finishing up his second year as an American Psychiatric Association Leadership Fellow this year.
Alex Antonioli was a 2023 Laughlin Fellow and 2024 Senior Laughlin Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.
Maravet Baig-Ward was selected as a Rappeport Fellow by the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law.
Donald Egan was elected as co-chair for the APA’s Diversity Leadership Fellowship & was selected to serve on the APA’s Council for Addiction Psychiatry. He was also chosen as a member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. He also was awarded the New Investigator Award through the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP). He became certified as an advanced TMS operator. He also prepared the gabapentin prescribing resource document for the APA.
Özlem Hökelekli received the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Educational Outreach Award 2022 and the American Psychiatric Association’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship.
Zachary Kennedy was selected for the American Psychiatric Association’s Leadership Fellowship.
Vincent Li received the Anne Alonso Scholarship to attend the American Group Psychotherapy Association 2023 national conference.
Emily May received the Lorraine Sulkin-Schein Award 2022-2023 for internal medicine housestaff-for service to Geriatric medicine and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
Christian Monsalve received the 2023-2025 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dani Morelli was selected for the Association for Academic Psychiatry’s Resident Psychiatric Educator Award.
Kayla Murphy and Allyson Davis were selected for the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Scholars Program.
Sravan Narapureddy and Nick Boswell received the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry John Renner Travel Award.
Thomas Pak is a member of the Medical Student and Resident Committee Member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Rija Siddiqui was awarded the Association of Women Psychiatry’s Alexandra Symond's fellowship for outstanding female psychiatry residents who have demonstrated significant potential for leadership and contribution in women’s health.
Bernice Yau received the Ginsberg Fellowship Award at AADPRT and was also selected for the Academic Psychiatry Trainee Editorial Fellowship.
Matt Yung and Vincent Li received the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental health’s Southwestern Scholarship to attend the conference of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Gio Zelada was selected for the American Psychiatric Association’s Community Diversity Fellowship.
Scholarly Presentations and Publications
Matthew Yung published a book chapter on “Publishing” in The Resident and Training Director Handbook: A Survival Guide for Psychiatric Residency American Psychiatric Association Publishing. In addition, he presented a workshop on “This American Psychiatric Life: Podcasting for Psychiatrists” at 2023 American Psychiatric Association Conference and AADPRT Conference with co-media editors of the AJP Residents’ Journal.
Bernice Yau was co-author on a commentary in Biological Psychiatry titled “The Other Postpartum: Pregnancy Loss and Mental Illness.”
Matthew Yung & Bernice Yau presented a workshop on “Launching and Navigating a Successful Career in Academic Medicine” at 2023 American Psychiatric Association Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Rija Siddiqui was a coauthor on the paper "Factor H related Proteins Modulate Complement Activation on Kidney Cells” published in Kidney International.
Alex Rollo was first author on a case and commentary article accepted for publication in the October 2023 issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics, entitled: "Should Antipsychotics’ Risks Be Accepted by Clinicians on Behalf of Patients to Achieve Benefits of Mitigating Older Adults’ Behavioral Symptoms in Short-Staffed Units?" He will also present "The 4Ms: Mobility" on June 15, 2023, to UT Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic faculty as part of a quality improvement project. His presentation will introduce the Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS) 4Ms framework and new evidence-based EMR tools for improving geriatric mental health care by routinely monitoring mobility.
Thomas Pak presented a film media session at the 2022 AACAP Annual in Toronto, Canada. He also published an opinion piece in JAACAP about Shang Chi, and the representation of Asian Americans in US media.
Kwame Nuako was first author on the paper “Using the Wire in Medical Education” published in Lancet Psychiatry. He also presented on the 2021 CURES Act at UT Southwestern Psychiatry Faculty Development Grand Rounds. He was a co-presenter at the workshops “Sing About Me: Using Hip Hop to Teach Psychiatry” and “Using the Medical Humanities to Inspire and Educate Trainees on Women’s Mental Health” at the Association for Academic Psychiatry.
Sravan Narapureddy published a book chapter titled "Bipolar Disorder Related Sleep Disturbances in Women" in A Clinical Casebook of Sleep Disorders in Women.
Kayla Murphy presented an oral presentation at the AAGP annual meeting titled, "Interprofessional care of patients with advanced dementia during critical transitions" and was the first author on "Treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia using transcranial magnetic stimulation: a systematic review" published in International Psychogeriatrics and "The importance of person-centered approaches to managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: a case report" published in Cureus.
Danielle Morelli, Bobbie Banner, and Audrey Eichenberger presented a workshop titled, “Beyond Cultural Competency: Developing and Implementing a Cultural Psychiatry Curriculum” at the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.
Christian Monsalve presented a poster "Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide of Patients with Psychiatric Disorders: Trends from Belgium and the Netherlands from 2018 to 2021" at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. He also presented a poster on "At the Limits of Medicine: Euthanasia of Patients with Psychiatric Disorders" at the 2023 Conference on Medicine & Religion. In addition, he presented a poster titled, " Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia of Patients with Dementia in the Netherlands and Belgium: 2018-2021" at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. He was also a Reviewer for the International Journal of Public Health.
Vincent Li co-presented a poster titled "A Cultural Psychiatry Curriculum Overhaul: An Approach to Reimagining Cultural Psychiatry in Psychiatry Resident Didactics" at the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training 2023 annual meeting. He also presented a poster titled "Antipsychotic induced hypothermia in jail patients: A rare adverse effect meets structural vulnerability" at the American Psychiatric Association 2023 annual meeting.
Özlem Hökelekli had a book chapter accepted for publication “Serotonin Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs)”, in the forthcoming textbook Treatments for Mood and Anxiety Disorders by Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She has also submitted a poster, “Irritability as measured by CAST-IRR and Its Relationship with Suicidal Ideation in Youth” to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2023 Annual Meeting, and "Uncovering Sleep-Related Hypermotor Epilepsy in a Child with Behavioral Changes” to the American Academy of Consultation-Liason Psychiatry 2023 Annual Meeting.
Donald Egan published “Disability in Medicine: My Experience” for Current Psychiatry. He was also a panelist and organizer for SMU’s “Disability: From Undergrad to the Workplace” event & was a guest on “DocsWithDisabilities” Podcast – Episode 62. He also presented on “Application of an ECT Database for Quality Improvement and Delivery: Phase One Findings from the ECT-CORA Initiative at UT Southwestern” and “Implementing Structural Competency in Addiction Psychiatry Education.” at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting. He also prepared the manuscript titled, “The Effect of Combination Naltrexone-Bupropion on Risky Sexual Behaviors in Stimulant Users: Findings from the ADAPT-2 Trial” and the manuscript titled, “IQ in high school as a predictor of alcohol consumption later in life.” Submitted to: Addiction. He also presented “An Uncommon Presentation of a Common Illness: A Near-Missed Case of Catatonia.” at UT Southwestern Department of Psychiatry Mortality and Morbidity Conference, “Sexual Risk Behaviors and Methamphetamine Use” at the Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care, and “The Possibility of Affecting Risky Sexual Behaviors through Pharmacological Methods: A Secondary Analysis of the ADAPT-2 Trial.” At the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Annual Meeting.
Audrey Eichenberger presented at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana on “Depression with psychosis in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: a case series.” She was also first author on “Psychotic depression in older adults following the sudden loss of a spouse during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case series”, published in the Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics.
Enrique Chiu Han presented the poster "Subacute Encephalopathy Presenting with Abstraction Deficits, a probable case of post-COVID frontal lobe syndrome" at the American Neuro-Psychiatric Association in March 2023.
Joyce Chen presented two case report posters at American Neuropsychiatric Association conference: “Rapidly Progressive Dementia Amidst Alcohol Use Disorder” and “Catatonia after Cerebral Venous Sinus thrombosis: a Case Report and Review of Literature”. She also had an abstract accepted at the Movement Disorder Society conference - “Hypnotherapy in Functional Neurological Disorder” In addition, she is in the process of having a case report, “Severe Motor Sensory Azonal Polyneuropathy in a Patient with Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis post COVID 19 vaccination”, published in the journal Neuroimmunology Reports.
Samir Abu-Hamad presented a brief presentation at the Association of Consult-Liaison Psychiatry on “Hero or Antagonist: A Case Series on the Tolerability of Memantine as Salvage Therapy for Catatonia from NMDA-Receptor Encephalitis.” He also presented a special topics lecture to the Med Psych program on “Existential Psychotherapy.” In addition, the following papers have been accepted for publication: “Hero or Antagonist: A Case Series on the Tolerability of Memantine as Salvage Therapy for Catatonia from NMDA-Receptor Encephalitis” at the Harvard Review of Psychiatry; “Understanding the Use of Program Resources During Virtual Recruitment By Psychiatry Residency Applicants” in Academic Psychiatry, “Making Meaning of Surviving the Oklahoma City Bombing Seven Years Later” in Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes and “A Qualitative Study of Immediate and Evolving Reactions of Directly-Exposed Survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing” in the Internal Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.
Teaching and Education
Alex Antonioli served as a 2022-2023 UTSW Colleges program psychiatry facilitator.
Donald Egan wrote the APA resource and education webpage on opioids and opioid use disorder. He presented a harm reduction statement for OUD for the APA’s Council on Addiction Psychiatry. He also presented on “Disability Advocacy, Research, and Education at UT Southwestern.
Audrey Eichenberger, Bobbie Banner, Donald Egan, Lindsay Szauter, and Danielle Morelli planned and developed a 4-hour special seminar on transgender health care given to the PGY1-PGY4 residents in 2023.
Allyson Folsom Davis presented an oral presentation, "Simulation-Based curriculum for psychiatry trainees: Diagnosis and management of neurocognitive disorders" at the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and "Simulation-based Curriculum for Psychiatry Trainees: Diagnosis and Management of Neurocognitive Disorder" the UT Southwestern 6th Annual Simulation-Based Quality Improvement and Research Forum.
Zachary Kennedy was a recipient the “Outstanding Resident Contribution to Medical Student Education” Award.
Vincent Li was a recipient of the UTSW Psychiatry Residency Medical Student Teaching Award. He also co-led a 4-hour special seminar titled “Spirituality, Religions, and Psychiatry” in collaboration with the UTSW clinical pastoral education team, facilitated psychiatric educational sessions in the UTSW Simulation Center for medical students, and served as a psychiatry facilitator for medical students in the UTSW Colleges program.
Sravan Narapureddy was a Psychiatry Facilitator for medical students in the UT Southwestern Colleges program and serves as ongoing organizer for Resident Mini-Didactics for monthly teaching points on special topics.
Kwame Nuako and Vinay Kotamarti were co-leaders of the Psychiatry and Pop Culture Course for medical students.
Thomas Pak is a member of the AMA RFS Committee on Medical Education and is a Council Member of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Natalie Spiller served as a small group-group leader in the Psychiatry Clerkship’s Anti-Racism Workshop.
Matthew Yung served as Media Editor for American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal. In addition, Matt published a podcast on Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology (part 1) with Dr. David Mintz on the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal Podcast. He also published a journal club podcast on “Minority Mental Health and Diversity”, “Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Psychiatric Disease”, and “Meet the Media Editors (AY 22-23)” with co-media editors on American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal Podcast. Lastly, he recorded the following podcasts in preparation for publication on the AJP Residents’ Podcast: “Psychiatric Comorbidity in Epilepsy” with Dr. Chadrick Lane, “Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” with Drs. Deborah Cabaniss and Aaron Reliford, and “Humility in Psychiatry” with Dr. Brenner.
Matthew Yung & Bernice Yau co-led a special seminar “Power of Observation” at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Advocacy and Community Service
Matthew Yung, Bernice Yau, & Neema Khonsari served as Psychiatry Chief Residents, and redecorated the UTSW Psychotherapy Clinic with new wall art and furniture.
Natalie Spiller, Jasmine Jack, Kwame Nuako, and Katherine Karlay served as Social Media Account Managers for the UTSW psychiatry residency Instagram page.
Thomas Pak has worked with AACAP and PsychSIGN to host two national virtual sessions regarding MATCH in Psychiatry. Thomas has served on the Mentorship Committee at UTSW, which included work on updating the faculty mentor database and coordinating the UTSW Psychiatry families. Thomas also helps with the UTSW Psychiatry social media.
Thomas Pak, Tobi Saliu, Caila Lavine, Lindsay Szauter, Maravet Baig-Ward, and Sravan Narapureddy have served as Class Representatives to the Residency Leadership Group and the Residency Education Committee.
Emily Nguyen and Rachel Beck were Co-Presidents of the Psychiatry Residents Organization. Zachary Kennedy served as Vice President and Parsa Ravanfar as PGY2 Class Representative. Under the umbrella of the PRO Council:
Bobbie Banner, Donald Egan, and Lindsay Szauter served as Co-Chairs of the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Committee.
Ozlem Hokelekli serves as Chair of the Wellness Committee.
Thomas Pak serves as Chair of the Mentorship Committee.
Maravet Baig-Ward serves as Chair of the Bad Outcomes Committee.
Kwame Nuako has served as a mentor in the Student National Medical Association Psychiatry Specialty Interest Group Mentorship Initiative in 2023.
Emily May and Tom Phan were Internal medicine/Psychiatry chief residents.
Donald Egan and Tobi Saliu started the Disability Advocacy, Research, and Education at UT Southwestern (DARES) organization.
Donald Egan worked as a medical clinician for the STIMULUS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Methamphetamine/Cocaine Use Disorder) study at the CDRC.
Audrey Eichenberger organized a group of residents to help with the "Be a Santa for a Senior" program by purchasing necessities for older adults in need and delivering the gifts to Home Instead Senior Care in 2022.
Joyce Chen served as Neurology/Psychiatry chief resident. She completed 2 Neuropsychiatry away rotations, one at UMass and the other at NYU. She also organized the first annual Neurology/Psychiatry resident retreat at UTSW.
Bobbie Banner is serving as DEI Chair for the Psychiatry Residency Programs.
Alex Antonioli was the Psychiatry research track representative. She also volunteered 20 hours at the Crossroads Community Food Pantry and 60 hours of volunteering by end of June at the Junior Cliburn. She also continues to develop the PALS (Perinatal Alliance Loss Support) Project for women with miscarriage and/or infant loss.