The MPS Academic Psychiatry Committee “best paper” award recognizes outstanding manuscripts authored by young psychiatrists that are published or in press in the immediately preceding year. The selection subcommittee reviewed several submissions of excellent papers. Congratulations to this year’s winners who will receive cash prizes funded by the Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry and be recognized at the April 20 annual meeting:

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