New Fellows Selected for APA's Minority Fellowships
APA has announced the names of the 29 minority psychiatry residents selected to participate in the APA Minority Fellowships Program as either an APA/SAMHSA fellow or an APA/AstraZeneca fellow.
2004-2005 APA/SAMHSA Minority Fellows
Tyson Boudreaux, M.D., New York University School of Medicine
Adrian Buckner, M.D., East Tennessee State University
Delane Casiano, M.D., University of Pennsylvania Health System
Lois Choi-Kain, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean
Susanna Dhaliwal, M.D., Thomas Jefferson University
Navdeep Dhaliwal, M.D., University of Louisville
Kelvin Exum, M.D., Howard University
Ayodele Green, M.D., Columbia University, Harlem Hospital Center
Dauda Griffin, M.D., Harvard Medical School
Nisba Husain, M.D., St. Vincent Hospital, New York City
Fatima Imara, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Karen Liaw, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean
Brian Rothbert, M.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Tina Tonnu, M.D., University of California at Davis
M. Renee Valdez, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
SAMHSA Substance Abuse Fellows
Daniel Dickerson, D.O., Yale University
William Huang, M.D., Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Moddy Kiluvia, M.D., Yale University
Varinder Rathore, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2005-2007 APA/AstraZeneca Fellows
Mary Ann Barnovitz, M.D., University of California at Davis
Kimberly Bush, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Takesha Cooper, M.D., San Mateo County Mental Health Services
Leah Fennell, M.D., University of South Florida
Alphonso Nichols III, M.D., University of Louisville
Johanna Paulino-Woolridge, M.D., Howard University
Jennifer Pender, M.D., University of South Carolina
Rene Valles, M.D., University of Utah
Sudeepta Varma, M.D., New York University School of Medicine
Monisha Vasa, M.D., Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Two APA/SAMHSA fellows were elected chair and vice chair by their peers to represent the fellowship on the APA Board of Trustees and the Joint Reference Committee. The chair is Sherri Simpson, M.D., who is training at Baylor College of Medicine, and the vice chair is Yanni Rho, M.D., who is training at Harvard University. ▪