Shah Wins Award

Parind Shah, M.D., a psychiatry resident at Griffin Memorial Hospital in Norman, Okla., has won the 2008 Hamilton Clinic Award, which honors outstanding writing in the mental health field. He was awarded for his paper“ Referral of a Psychiatric Patient: More Than Routine Patient Care.” The award comes with a $1,000 check and was established in 2007 by Oklahoma psychiatrist William Hamilton, M.D.

Another Oklahoma psychiatrist, James Boger, M.D., a resident at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, won honorable mention for his paper “Behavioral Improvement and Decreased Parental Stress Associated With Vagus Nerve Stimulation in a 6-Year-Old Child.”

Information about this year's competition is available by phone at (580) 765-3900. ▪