New Fellows Selected for APA's Minority Fellowships

APA has announced the names of the 29 minority psychiatry residents selected to participate in the APA Minority Fellowships Program as either an APA/SAMHSA fellow or an APA/AstraZeneca fellow.

2004-2005 APA/SAMHSA Minority Fellows

Tyson Boudreaux, M.D., New York University School of Medicine

Adrian Buckner, M.D., East Tennessee State University

Delane Casiano, M.D., University of Pennsylvania Health System

Lois Choi-Kain, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean

Susanna Dhaliwal, M.D., Thomas Jefferson University

Navdeep Dhaliwal, M.D., University of Louisville

Kelvin Exum, M.D., Howard University

Ayodele Green, M.D., Columbia University, Harlem Hospital Center

Dauda Griffin, M.D., Harvard Medical School

Nisba Husain, M.D., St. Vincent Hospital, New York City

Fatima Imara, M.D., University of California, San Francisco

Karen Liaw, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean

Brian Rothbert, M.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Tina Tonnu, M.D., University of California at Davis

M. Renee Valdez, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

SAMHSA Substance Abuse Fellows

Daniel Dickerson, D.O., Yale University

William Huang, M.D., Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Moddy Kiluvia, M.D., Yale University

Varinder Rathore, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2005-2007 APA/AstraZeneca Fellows

Mary Ann Barnovitz, M.D., University of California at Davis

Kimberly Bush, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina

Takesha Cooper, M.D., San Mateo County Mental Health Services

Leah Fennell, M.D., University of South Florida

Alphonso Nichols III, M.D., University of Louisville

Johanna Paulino-Woolridge, M.D., Howard University

Jennifer Pender, M.D., University of South Carolina

Rene Valles, M.D., University of Utah

Sudeepta Varma, M.D., New York University School of Medicine

Monisha Vasa, M.D., Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Two APA/SAMHSA fellows were elected chair and vice chair by their peers to represent the fellowship on the APA Board of Trustees and the Joint Reference Committee. The chair is Sherri Simpson, M.D., who is training at Baylor College of Medicine, and the vice chair is Yanni Rho, M.D., who is training at Harvard University. ▪