Paper Of The Year Award
2023
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Resident-Fellow Members (RFMs)
Deepak Salem, D.O. (UMMS)
Andrew van der Vaart, M.D., Ph.D. (UMMS)
Revisiting delusion subtypes in schizophrenia based on their underlying structures
Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP)
Aditya Pawar, M.D. (Kennedy Krieger) Medical and Recreational Marijuana Laws and Adolescent Cannabis Use in the United States: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
2022
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Medical Student Member (MSM)
Isabelle Pan, MS (JHU)
Long Gun Suicides in the State of Maryland Following the Firearm Safety Act of 2013 in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, February 2023.
Resident-Fellow Member (RFM)
Elizabeth Steuber (JH)
Psychiatric Presentations and Medication Use in Older Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry November/December 2022
Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP)
Elizabeth Wise, M.D. (JHU)
Psychiatric Presentations and Medication Use in Older Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry January 2022
2021
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Medical Student Member (MSM) (2 way tie)
Michael Johnathan Charles Bray, MS (JHU)
Racial Differences in Statewide Suicide Mortality Trends in Maryland During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic in JAMA Psychiatry 2021 Apr 1
Nicholas O. Daneshvari, MS (JHU)
Neuroimaging Correlates of Syndromal Anxiety Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review of the Literature in Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry 2021 Sep 14
Resident-Fellow Member (RFM)
Stephanie S. Kulaga, M.D. (UMMC/SP)
Viral respiratory infections and psychosis: A review of the literature and the implications of COVID-19 in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2021 Aug
Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP)
Lindsay R. Standeven, M.D. (JHU)
Allopregnanolone and depression and anxiety symptoms across the peripartum: an exploratory study in Archives of Women’s Mental Health 2021 Oct 29
2020
Resident-Fellow Member (RFM) – two winners this year:
Rachel L. Dillinger, M.D. (UMMC/Sheppard Pratt)
Addressing the Stigma Surrounding Serious Mental Illness in Adolescents: a Brief Intervention
Jason Theis, M.D., Ph.D. (JHU)
Firearm Suicide Among Veterans of the U.S. Military: A Systematic Review
Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP): Elizabeth J. Prince, D.O.
A longitudinal study of personality traits, anxiety, and depressive disorders in young adults
2019
Resident/Fellow: Jooyoung Lee, M.D.
Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP) – two winners this year:
Paul Nestadt, M.D.
Prevalence of long gun use in Maryland firearm suicides
T. Avi Gerstenblith, M.D.
Trichotillomania comorbidity in a sample enriched for familial obsessive-compulsive disorder
2018
Resident/Fellow: Viviana Alvarez-Toro, M.D.
“Revisiting the False Confession Problem”
Early Career: Traci Speed, M.D., Ph.D.
“An Innovative Perioperative Pain Program for Chronic Opioid Users”
2017
Resident/Fellow: Paul Nestadt, M.D.
Urban–Rural Differences in Suicide in the State of Maryland: The Role of Firearms
Early Career: Traci Speed, M.D., Ph.D.
Survey of Pain Therapies in Marfan Syndrome
2016
Resident/Fellow: Traci Speed, M.D., Ph.D.
“Characterization of Pain, Disability, and Psychological Burden in Marfan Syndrome.”
Early Career: Jennifer Coughlin, M.D.
2015
Resident/Fellow: Asheena Keith, M.D.
“Behavioral Interventions for Tobacco Use in HIV-infected Smokers: a Meta-analysis.”
2014
Resident/Fellow: Avi Gerstenblith, M.D.
“Lyme Disease: A Review of Its Epidemiology, Evaluation, and Treatment.”
Early Career: Margo Lauterbach, M.D.
“Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury–Induced Dyskinesia With Tetrabenazine: A Case Report.”
2013
Resident/Fellow: Carol Vidal, M.D., M.P.H.
“Meta-Analysis of efficacy of mirtazapine as an adjunctive treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.”
Early Career: Maju Koola, M.D.
“Relief of cannabis withdrawal symptoms and cannabis quitting strategies in people with schizophrenia.”
Open category: Rebecca Birnbaum, M.D.
“Functional neuroimaging and schizophrenia: a view towards effective connectivity modeling and polygenic risk.”.