Resident Awards and Honors – 2004-2016
2015 USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Finalist Team
Drs. Seth Kleinerman, Akshay Lohitsa, Andrew Edelstein
2014 USA/American Psychitric Association Mind Games Championship Winning Team
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Seth Kleinerman, Adam Demner, Akshay Lohitsa, Glen Gabbard
2014 USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Championship Winning Team
2013 USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Finalist Team
- Elizabeth Auchincloss, Akshay Lohitsa, Anna Dickerman, Alexander Harris, Jack Barchas
2012 USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Finalist Team
- Jonathan Avery, Anna Dickerman, Alexander Harris
2011 USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Finalist Team
- Elizabeth Auchincloss, Conor Liston, Jennifer Bernstein, Ben Zebley, Sibel Klimstra
Robert Accordino
- Marguerite Casey Foundation Grant $5000 to support the programmatic work of Music for Autism, December 15, 2012
Amir Afkhami
- Jack D. Pressman –Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award/American Association for the History of Medicine/2006
Kwame Akowuah
- APIRE/Minority Travel mini-Fellowship/ 2009
Jonathan Avery
- Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry/Fellowship/ 2011-2013
- Shining Star/NYPH Service Award/2011
- Section Editor, American Journal of Psychiatry, Residents’ Journal/2010-2012
- NYPH-Cornell Representative, American Psychiatry Association, New York District Branch, Residents’ Committee/2012
- 2nd Place USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2012
- American Psychiatric Association/Distinguished Resident Award/2013
Jennifer Bernstein
- 2nd Place USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2012
- New York Presbyterian Hospital Care Award/ August 2011
D. Bhatt
- Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholar/American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education/2008-10
- Shining Star/NYPH Service Award/2010
Vanessa Bobb
- APA Minority Fellowship/Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals/2008-10
Benjamin Brody
- Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry/Fellowship/ 2009-2011
Andrene Campbell
- Shining Star/NYPH Service Award/2011
Dorothy Chyung
- AACAP Educational Outreach Program for General Psychiatry
Joseph Cousin
- NYPH-Shining Star Award/2007-08
Mark D’Agostino
- Editorial Board Member, Globalization and Mental Health
Adam Demner
- Shining Star/NYPH Distinguished Service Award/2011
- Distinguished Housestaff Award/Cornell Medical College Alumni Council/2013
Anna Dickerman
- First Prize Residents’ Paper Competition/Society for Liaison Psychiatry/2011
- Shining Star, New York Presbyterian Hospital/2011
- 2nd Place New York State Psychiatric Association 4th Annual Scientific Paper
- Award/2011 Recipient, Trainee Travel Award, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Annual Meeting/2011
- 2nd Place USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2012
- 3rd Place USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2013
- Webb Fellow, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine/2012-2013
- Fellowship, American Psychoanalytic Association/2013-2014
Christin Drake
- APA/SAMSHA Fellowship/2011
Marc Dubin
- Janssen Scholars/APIRE Program for Severe Mental Illness/2007-9
- First Prize, American Psychiatric Association, NY District Branch, Resident Paper Prize/2007
Diana Feldman
- American Association Geriatric Psychiatry/Stepping Stones Fellow/2004-5
Zachary Freyberg
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2004NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2005
- GlaxoSmith Kline Fellow/American Psychiatric Association/2006-8
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2007
- Laughlin Fellowship/American College of Psychiatrists/2008
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2008
David Galarneau
- Honorable Mention, American Psychiatric Association New York District Branch Resident Research Award/2005
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2005
- Cornell University Medical College Alumni Association Distinguished House Officer Award/2004-5
Kendall Genre
- Distinguished House Officer Award/Weill Cornell Medical College/2006
- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Fellow/Association of Women Psychiatrist/2006
Andrew Gerber
- NIMH Outstanding Resident Award/2003
- American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education; Research Colloquium for
- Junior Investigators/2004-5
- American College of Psychiatrists, Laughlin Award/2005-6
- Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Eugene Friedberg Award/2005-6
Judith Gold
- Association of Women Psychiatrists/Outstanding Contribution to Women in Psychiatry/2003
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Travel Grant/2005-6
Janna Gordon-Elliot
- APIRE/Janssen Scholars Award/ 2009-2011
Shannon Gulliver (Caspersen)
- Outreach Advisor for the Junior Committee of the New York Center For Children, 2010
Cary Gunther
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2006
Gregory Hannahs
- Gay and Lesbian Medical Association/Resident Representative/2002-4
Oliver Harper
- Shining Star/NYPH Distinguished Service Award/2011
- Benjamin Rush Scholar/2011
Alexander Harris
- DeWitt Wallace Reader’s Digest Scholar/2010
- Shining Star/NYPH Service Award/2011
- American Psychiatric Association/Pfizer Pharmaceuticals MD/PhD Psychiatric Research Fellowship/ 2013
- 2nd Place in USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2012
- 3rd Place in USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2013
Mona Jain
- Representative, American Psychiatric Association, New York District Branch/2006-07
Sireesha Jathavedam
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2008
Ronit Kedem
- Cornell Representative, Emory University Residents’ Symposium/2007
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2008
Doonam Kim
- American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, Program in Minority Research Training in Psychiatry, Fellow/2003
Andrew Kopelman
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Shining Star Award for Service/2008
Jennifer Kraker
- American Psychosomatic Medicine Trainee Award 2007
- MIT Representative, APA New York County District Branch/2008-9
- APA/Bristol Meyers Squibb Fellowship in Public Psychiatry/2009-2011
Annie Lau
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2009
Vivian Lee
- NYPH-Cornell Representative, American Psychiatry Association, New York District Branch, Residents’ Committee/2010-2012
Conor Liston
- DeWitt Wallace Reader’s Digest Scholar/2008
- APIRE/Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholars Award/2010-2012
- 2nd Place in USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2011
- 1st Prize/American Psychiatric Association New York County District Branch Residents’Research Day /2011
- Resident Research Award: International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation (ISEN) /2011
- APA-Pfizer MD/PhD Psychiatric Research Fellowship/2012
- Recipient, NIMH K99 Research Grant/2012
Akshay Lohitsa
- 3rd Place in USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2013
Sharon Maddock
- National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk, Cornell Department of Psychiatry, Residency Program Team Co-Captain, 2010, 2011, 2012
- Shining Star/NYPH Service Award/2011
- NYPH-Cornell Representative, American Psychiatry Association, New York District Branch, Residents’ Committee/2010-2012
Feyza Marouf
- American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry/Bristol-Meyers Squibb/Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry/2006-07
Sarah Schur McCarty
- National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk, Cornell Department of Psychiatry, Residency Program Team Captain, 2009; Co-Captain, 2010, 2011
- Shining Star Award/NYPH/2009
Oren Messeri
- Wilkenfeld Resident’s Scholarship/American Group Psychotherapy Conference/2004
Sarah Meyer
- Distinguished House Staff Award, Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Council/2009
- Alexandra Symonds Fellowship, Women’s Psychiatric Association/2010
Wendy Moyal
- NYPH-Shining Star Award/2008-09
David Nissan
- Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholar, American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education 2013-2015
- Falcon Award/New York Presbyterian Hospital Award for Service/2013
Mallay Occhiogrosso
- Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, Fellow/2004-06
Sandra Park
- American Psychiatric Association/Aventis/Women Leaders in Psychiatry Award/2003
Julie Penzner
- Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholar/American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education/2006-08
- American College of Psychiatrists/ Laughlin Fellowship/2009
- Honorable Mention/American Psychiatric Association New York County District BranchResidents’ Research Day /2009
- Travel Fellowship/ American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Workshop on Clinical Trials in Psychopharmacology/ 2009
Mark Petrini
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2005
Xenia Protopopescu
- DeWitt Wallace Reader’s Digest Scholar/2008
Raymond Raad
- Benjamin Rush Scholar/2009
- Shining Star/NYPH Service Award/2010
- NYPH-Cornell Representative, American Psychiatry Association, New York District Branch, Residents’ Committee/2010-2012
- Rappeport Fellowship, American Association of Psychiatry and the Law/2012
- Distinguished Housestaff Award/ Weill Cornell Medical Center Alumni Council/2012
Anna Rosen
- Falcon Award/NYPH Service Award/2011
- Association of Women Psychiatrists-Alexandra and Martin Symonds Foundation Fellowship/2012
Alexandra Sacks
- Benjamin Rush Scholar/2008
- Association of Women Psychiatrists-Alexandra and Martin Symonds Foundation Fellowship/2012
Annaheta Salajegheh
- NYPH-Cornell Representative, American Psychiatry Association, New York District Branch, Residents’ Committee/2010-2012
Julia Samton
- American Psychiatric Association/New York District Branch Resident Research Award/Honorable Mention/2003-04
Lorin Scher
- National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk, Cornell Department of Psychiatry, Residency Program Team Captain/2008
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2009
Sonali Sharma
- Bristol-Meyers Squibb Fellow/American Psychiatric Association/2006-08
- Samuel W. Perry III, M.D. Distinguished Award in Psychiatric Medicine/2007
Karthik Sivashanker
- Co-Chair/ Residents’ Committee/American Psychiatric Association, New York District Branch/2010-2012
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Educational Outreach Program/2011
- The American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal Guest Section Editor/2011
Caitlin Snow
- Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Honors Scholar/2014Nomination for the APA American Psychiatric Leadership Fellowship program/2013
- NYP’s Amazing People Recognition Program/2012, 2014
- The Oskar Diethelm Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry/ 2011
- The Henry Adelman Memorial Award for Excellence in Geriatric Medicine/2011
- Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Scholar/2011
Jennifer Sweet
- Shining Star/NYPH Service Award/2011
- Falcon Award/NYPH Distinguished Service Award/2011
- National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk, Cornell Department of Psychiatry, Residency Program Team Co-Captain, 2012
Christina Treece
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2005
Christine Truman
- Janssen Scholars Program for Severe Mental Illness/2002-04
- American Psychiatric Association/GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship/2002-04
- American Psychiatric Association/9th Annual Research Colloquium for Junior Investigator Award and New York District Branch Resident Research Award/Third Prize/2003-04
- New Investigator Award Recipient/2004
Emma Wall
- Cornell Department of Psychiatry Representative, NYC Global Mental Health Forum, Society for Emotional Well-being Worldwide (SEWW)
Michael Walton
- American Psychiatric Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, Stepping Stones
- Fellowship/2006-07
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital Falcon Award for Service/2007
- Distinguished House Staff Award, Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Council/2008
Brendon Watson
- DeWitt Wallace Research Scholar/2009
- NIMH Outstanding Resident Award/2011
- National Science Foundation Temporal Dynamics of Learning and Memory Center Small Grant/2012
- National Science Foundation Temporal Dynamics of Learning and Memory Center Small Grant/2012
- American Psychiatric Association/Lilly Research Fellowship/2013
Elhav Weinstein
- Falcon Award/NYPH Distinguished Service Award/2012
James Wolak
- Distinguished House Staff Award, Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Council/2006
Genevieve Yuen
- American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, Geriatric Mental Health Foundation Honors Scholar/2010
- Distinguished House Staff Award/ WeillCornell Medical College Alumni Council/2010
- Honorable Mention/American Psychiatric Association New York County District Branch Residents’ Research Day/2011
Benjamin Zebley
- 2nd Place in USA/American Psychiatric Association Mind Games Competition/2011
- Reviewer: American Journal of Psychiatry, Residents’ Journal
- Falcon Award/NYPH Distinguished Service Award/2011
April Zhu
- American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, Stepping Stones Fellow/2005-06
Matthew Zimmerman
- Shining Star/NYPH Service Award/2010
- Distinguished House Staff Award, Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Council/2011
Jessica Zonana
- Distinguished House Staff Award, Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Council/2007
- American Psychiatric Association, Ad Hoc Committee for the Study of GBLT issues/2007
