Yvonne Ferguson, M.D., M.P.H., is the winner of APA's 2007 Jeanne Spurlock
Minority Fellowship Achievement Award. This award recognizes the outstanding
achievements of alumnae and alumni of the APA minority fellowships.
Ferguson practices child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry in Santa
Barbara, Calif, where she is chair of the Disaster Mental Health Committee of
Cottage Hospital's Department of Psychiatry. She also works with
developmentally disabled populations and will be working with homeless
patients in her community with Doctors Without Walls. Ferguson also works with
tribal members of the Chumash Reservation's Santa Ynez Tribal Health.▪