Parind Shah, M.D., a psychiatry resident at Griffin Memorial Hospital in
Norman, Okla., has won the 2008 Hamilton Clinic Award, which honors
outstanding writing in the mental health field. He was awarded for his paper"
Referral of a Psychiatric Patient: More Than Routine Patient
Care." The award comes with a $1,000 check and was established in 2007
by Oklahoma psychiatrist William Hamilton, M.D.
Another Oklahoma psychiatrist, James Boger, M.D., a resident at the
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, won honorable mention for his
paper "Behavioral Improvement and Decreased Parental Stress Associated
With Vagus Nerve Stimulation in a 6-Year-Old Child."
Information about this year's competition is available by phone at
(580) 765-3900. ▪