Psychiatry Residents Honored

Alexis Aplasca, M.D., of Honolulu is a chief resident at the University of Hawaii combined training program in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Alexis Armenakis, M.D., of San Francisco is a chief resident at the University of California, San Francisco.

Sepideh N. Bajestan, M.D., Ph.D., of Palo Alto, Calif., is a fourth-year resident in psychiatry at Stanford University.

Zhanna (Jane) Elberg, M.D., of Amherst, N.Y., is completing her final year of a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Carl Erik Fisher, M.D., of Brooklyn, N.Y., is a fourth-year resident in psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Matthew S. Kayser, M.D., Ph.D., of Philadelphia is a fourth-year resident in psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Christina Tara Khan, M.D., Ph.D., of Palo Alto, Calif., is a first-year child and adolescent psychiatry community track fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine.

George Loeffler, M.D., of San Diego, Calif., is a fourth-year resident in psychiatry in the Department of Mental Health at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, where he is chief resident and a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.

Deepak Prabhakar, M.D., M.P.H., of Farmington Hills, Mich., is in his fifth year of postgraduate training and the second year of a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University program. He is also the fellowship’s chief resident.

Arshya Vahabzadeh, M.D., of Atlanta is a third-year resident in psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. This summer he will become editor in chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry’s Residents’ Journal. ■