CHILD PSCYHIATRIST MAKES THE FRONT PAGE OF PSYCHIATRY NEWS

July, 2011

Stacy Drury M.D., Ph.D. an an assistant professor of psychiatry was interviewed about the Burcharest Early Intervention Project for the lead article, "Child's Telomeres May Tell of Early-Life Adversity", in the July 1, 2011 issue of Psychiatry News.

WELCOME  TO OUR NEW TRAINEES

July, 2011

DR. DANIEL WINSTEAD HAS BEEN NAMED THE 2010 RECIPIENT OF THE WILLIAM C. MENNINGER MEMORIAL AWARD

February 2010

Dr. Daniel Winstead has been named the 2010 recipient of the William C. Menninger Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Science of Mental Health by the American College of Physicians (ACP). He will receive the award at the annual ACP scientific meeting on April 22, 2010 in Toronto, Canada, and deliver a lecture the next day. Dr.Winstead, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is also the Robert G. Heath Professor. He has been at Tulane School of Medicine since 1976.

GLORIA P. WALSH AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE PRESENTED TO DR. JANET E. JOHNSON

June 22, 2009

This award is given annually by the medical student body in honor of Gloria P. Walsh, late wife of the late John J. Walsh, MD, chancellor emeritus of Tulane University Medical Center. The recipient is selected by the Owl Club, an elected organization whose goal is the constant advancement of medical education at Tulane, for inspiring excellence in teaching and promoting high ethical standards.

The Owl Club, on behalf of the entire student body, honors Janet E. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H. with the Gloria P. Walsh Award for her dedication and contribution to medical education.

Janet Johnson, M.D., M.P.H., came to Tulane University School of Medicine in 1990 from the University of Missouri where she completed her B.A. and M.D. degrees. Here she did her residency in Psychiatry and served as Tulane’s chief resident in Psychiatry while in her final year of residency. At the time of her graduation she received the Lancaster Award for the “Most Caring Psychiatrist among Graduating Residents”.

Following a two year fellowship in schizophrenia research in New York at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, she returned in 1996 as a member of our faculty. One year later while still on our faculty, she began her course work for a Master’s in Public Health in International Health and Development. She graduated with her M.P.H. in 2000. This has lead her interest and work on complex medical disasters at international sites. Following Katrina, as Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, she put the skills to good use locally leading to new sites and creative opportunities for our medical students.

Dr. Johnson has won Owl Club Awards on four occasions. In 2000 she was recognized by the American Psychiatric Association with one of their Nancy C.A. Roeske, M.D. Awards in recognition of excellence in medical student education. In 2006 she was given their companion award for excellence in teaching residents.

She is currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, Psychiatrist for the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic, Psychiatrist for Healthcare for the Homeless, and Psychiatrist for the Homeless Adolescent Drop-In Center. Thus the Gloria P. Walsh Award for Teaching Excellence has been hard earned and is well deserved.

Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry

June 3, 2009

Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., M.D., is a Sellars-Polchow Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, and Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is also Executive Director of the Institute for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Tulane. Dr. Zeanah has a longstanding interest in infant mental health, especially abuse and neglect in young children, attachment and its disorders, psychopathology in early childhood and infant-parent relationships. Throughout his career, his clinical and research focus has been on early experiences and their effects. For example, since 1994, together with Julie Larrieu, he has led a community-based intervention program for abused and neglected infants and toddlers in the New Orleans area; and since 2000, with Drs. Charles Nelson and Nathan Fox, he has been Co-PI of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. This is a longitudinal, randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care among severely deprived, abandoned young children in Romania. Dr. Zeanah is a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Board Member of Zero to Three.

The Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry was established in 1976 in memory of Blanche F. Ittleson, Honorary Fellow of the APA and noted philanthropic friend of psychiatry. This award is given to a child psychiatrist or group of investigators for published results of research pertaining to the mental health of children. This award is selected by the Ittleson Award Board - Elizabeth B. Weller, M.D., Chairperson.

2010 JEANNE SPURLOCK CONGRESSIONAL FELLOWSHIP

May 29, 2009

Dr. Colibri Jenkins has been selected as the 2010 Spurlock Fellow for the American Psychiatric Association. It is a 10-month fellowship (Jan - Nov, 2010). During the fellowship Dr. Jenkins will be introduced to the structure and development of federal and congressional health policy procedures, with a focus on mental health issues affecting minorities and under-served populations, including children. Fellows traditionally help develop legislative proposals, track and analyze legislative initiatives, arrange hearings, and brief Members of Congress and their staff, and interact with their constituents. During the fellowship, recipients have opportunities to interact with health policymakers and advocacy/professional groups, including the APA.

This is a huge honor for Dr. Jenkins and speaks volumes about our residency program. Please join us in congratulating her on this honor.

GRADUATING MEDICAL STUDENTS RECEIVE AWARDS IN PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY

May 18, 2009

Congratulations to graduating medical students (L-R) Casey Dunn, Ashley Doucette and Michael Manchak. Casey and Michael are co-recipients of the Leon A. Weisberg, MD Memorial Award in Neurology

and Ashley received the Bick Scholarship Award in Psychiatry at the Ivy Day Awards Ceremony held Friday in the Medical School Auditorium. 

Both Ashley and Casey will be joining the Department in July for their residency training in Psychiatry and Neurology respectively.

Incoming Psychiatry Resident Ashley Doucette: A Katrina Class Story

May 13, 2009

Ashley Doucette was two weeks into her first year of study at the Tulane University School of Medicine when Hurricane Katrina struck. A native of New Orleans, Doucette was at that time living with her parents in their New Orleans East home, which took in 10 feet of water. More>>

Congratulations to Brad McConville who is one of ten residents selected as a Laughlin Fellow by the American College of Psychiatrists for 2009-2010. As such, he and his peers ("who will likely be future leaders of psychiatry") will be able to attend the meetings of the College in 2009 and 2010 at the expense of the College. Brad has won several other awards while here as a med-psych resident at Tulane. He has won back-to-back Gonzalez Prizes for scientific writing by a resident in our Department, and has been named one of the Residents of the Year at MCL-NO (2007-2008) and was also recently awarded the American Psychiatric Association/Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowship Award in Public Psychiatry for 2008-2010.