New Fellows Selected for APA/APAF Fellowships

The APA/APA Foundation (APAF) Fellowships provide psychiatry residents the experiential learning, training, and professional development they need to be leaders in the field of psychiatry. The fellowships offer opportunities to work with Congress on health policy, conduct research, expand access to care to minority and underserved populations, focus on child psychiatry or substance abuse, and much more. In addition, the fellows get exclusive opportunities to be a part of APA leadership councils and network with APA members from around the country.

Here is a list of the new fellows in each fellowship:

2021-2023 APA/APAF Leadership Fellows

Samir Abu-Hamad, M.D., M.S., University of Texas Southwestern

Anum Iqbal Baig, M.D., Charles R Drew University of Medicine & Science

Simone Bernstein, M.D., Washington University in St. Louis

Karen Dionesotes, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Medicine

Rahael Gupta, M.D., M.S., UCLA

Sarah Hanafi, M.D., B.Sc., McGill University

Jihoon Kim, M.D., M.Sc., Yale University School of Medicine

Caroline McCool, M.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Ihuoma Njoku, M.D., University of Virginia

Mary Rockas, M.D., M.B.A., New York University

Adrienne Rosenthal, M.D., M.B.A., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital

Omar Shah, M.D., Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine

Jessica Steinsiek, M.D., M.P.H., University of North Carolina Hospitals

Zhi-Yang Tsun, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester

Ashley Van Haverbeck, D.O., Henry Ford Allegiance Health

2021-2023 APA/APAF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows

Timothy Becker, M.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Felicia Boakye-Dankwah, M.D., UCLA/ Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center

Michael Chung, M.D., M.H.S., SUNY Downstate Medical Center

William Coe, M.D., M.P.H., Yale School of Medicine

Kaylee Davis-Bordovsky, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern

Michael Dinh, M.D., University of California, San Francisco

Sarah Gabriel, M.D., University of Hawai’i Psychiatry Residency Program

Rachel Han, M.D., Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Isaac Johnson, M.D., University of California, San Francisco

Brian Levins, M.D., Medical College of Georgia

Alicia Lindsay, M.D., Morehouse School of Medicine

Danielle Lowe, M.D., Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina

Christina Macenski, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Soe Thein, M.D., University of California, Davis

Chelsea Younghans, M.D., Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, National Capital Consortium

2021-2023 APA/APAF Diversity Leadership Fellows

Omotola Ajibade, M.D., M.P.H., Hackensack Meridian Ocean Medical Center

Huma Baqir, M.B.B.S., M.D., University at Buffalo

Brijae Chavarria, M.D., M.A., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Erin Fletcher, M.D., M.P.H., University of California Riverside School of Medicine

Fiona Fonseca, M.B.B.Ch., M.S., St. Mary Mercy Hospital Livonia, Michigan

Diego Garces Grosse, M.D., Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Asmara Hoo-Cardiel, D.O., Michigan State University

Rachel Kay, M.D., University of Minnesota

Karyn Korsah, M.D., Emory University School of Medicine

Thara Nagarajan, M.D., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Chidinma Okani, M.D., Yale School of Medicine

Tierra Simmons, M.D., Morehouse School of Medicine

Chenghui Su, D.O., UCLA/VA Greater Los Angeles

Yvonne Uyanwune, M.D., M.P.H., Yale University

Maria Veronica Clare Vigilar, M.D., Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, National Capital Consortium

2021-2023 APA/APAF Public Psychiatry Fellows

Jose Bou Nassif, M.D., Saint Louis University

David Cho, M.D., Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin

Amy Gallop, M.D., Saint Louis University

Bushra Khan, M.D., University of Toronto

Melissa Lavoie, M.D., Johns Hopkins University

Jon Lindefjeld, M.D., M.Sc., NCC -Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, National Capital Consortium

Desta Lissanu, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital

Mark Morales, M.D., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Celeste Peay, M.D., J.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital

Collin Shumate, M.D., University of California, Davis

Amit Suneja, M.D., M.P.H., University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Hospital

Sukanya Vartak, M.D., Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn

German Velez, M.D., Boston University Medical Center

Chidi Wamuo, M.D., Morehouse School of Medicine

2021-2023 APA/APAF Edwin V. Valdiserri Correctional Public Psychiatry Fellow

Parvaneh Nouri, M.D., M.P.H., University of Colorado

2021-2022 APA SAMHSA Minority Fellows

Rohit Abraham, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.T., Boston Medical Center

Kavitha Anandalingam, M.D., New York University School of Medicine

Brittany Atuahene Robinson, M.D., Yale School of Medicine

Pranav Aurora, M.D., Sc.M., SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Jade Avery, M.D., New York Presbyterian/Columbia University

Raheel Chaudhry, M.D., Henry Ford Allegiance Health System

Zola Chihombori Quao, M.D., M.H.S., University of California, Davis

Flavia DeSouza, M.D., M.H.S., Georgetown University

Stephanie Eng, M.D., University of Chicago Medical Center

Natasha Gambhir, D.O., Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas

Nelly Gonzalez-Lepage, M.D., M.B.A., Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Sonal Jain, D.O., Boston Medical Center

Atasha Jordan, M.D., M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Courtney Kandler, M.D., National Capital Consortium

Shuchi Khosla, M.D., Michigan State University

Ellen Kim, M.D., Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Elizabeth Ma, M.D., Ph.D., Loma Linda University

Somto Obi, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine

Kyu Young Oh, M.D., New York Presbyterian Hospital/New York State Psychiatric Institute

Etuajie Oiyemhonlan Halbert, D.O., M.S., Howard University Hospital

Megan Shedd M.D., M.P.H., University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Michael Sun, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital

Sharely Torres, M.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Barbara Trejo Ortega, M.D., Yale University

Jean Vilus, M.D., McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University

Francois Williams, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine

Alexandra Yoon, M.D., George Washington University

Michael Hsu, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Ulziibat Person M.D., Ph.D., Nassau University Medical Center

2021-2022 APA/APAF Spurlock Congressional Fellows

Mandar Jadhav, M.D.

Eric Rafla-Yuan, M.D. ■