Henry Kietzman, MD, PhD, third-year resident, has been selected to receive the 2025 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Outstanding Resident Award.
The award, introduced more than 30 years ago, recognizes residents with outstanding research and academic potential.
Kietzman has been invited to participate in the awards program, to be held October 27-28, 2025, at the National Institute of Health campus in Bethesda, MD. The program will include talks from NIMH investigators and interactive meetings with NIMH leadership, research and funding staff, and current clinical fellows. Honorees will learn about research training opportunities at NIMH and will have an opportunity to present their research.
Kietzman is a resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Neuroscience Research Training Program. He was president of the Yale Psychiatry Residents’ Association in the 2024-25 academic year and was a 2024 recipient of the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Thomas P. Detre Fellowship Award in Translational Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry.
His research investigates the neurobiological circuits underlying prosociality in rodents, particularly social cooperation.