Residents Chosen to Work on Capitol Hill

Three APA members-in-training have been selected to work with members of Congress on issues related to psychiatry. They are Michael D. Barnett, M.D., Andrew J. Kolodny, M.D., and Ericka Goodwin, M.D.,

Barnett and Kolodny have been selected the 2003 Daniel X. Freedman Congressional Fellows. They were chosen by the American Psychiatric Foundation Freedman Fellowship Committee. Barnett, a graduate of New York Medical College, is a resident at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kolodny, a graduate of Temple University School of Medicine, is a resident at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Their fellowships will begin in January 2003.

Ericka Goodwin, M.D., has been selected the 2003 Jeanne Spurlock Congressional Fellow. She is a fourth-year general psychiatry resident at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. She plans to enter a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship after completing the congressional fellowship, which runs from January to June 2003.

The Spurlock Fellowship is a joint program of APA and the American Psychiatric Foundation, in collaboration with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. It is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.