Yale Residency Program News

In a recent interview with Psychiatric Times, resident William Li, MD, PhD, left, and Morgan Hardy, MD, MPH, right, instructor of psychiatry, presented a review of evidence on the combinatorial use of cognitive behavioral therapy with ketamine to extend the durability of antidepressant response.

Dozens of faculty and residents in the Yale Department of Psychiatry gathered in San Francisco May 16-20 for the 2026 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.

Tolu Akinade, MD, PhD, and Henry Kietzman, MD, PhD, third-year residents, were recently awarded Travel Fellowship Awards from the Society of Biological Psychiatry.

Residents, from left, Samuel Dienel, MD, PhD; Noa Katz Shroitman, MD; and Hui Yang, MD, PhD, have been named recipients of the 2026 Thomas P. Detre Fellowship Award in Translational Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry.

Yale Department of Psychiatry residents Henry Kietzman, MD, PhD, left, and Will Li, MD, PhD, right, have been named first and second prize winners, respectively, of the 2026 Lustman Award for Psychiatric Research.

Five trainees were recently recognized for a community-based program in January that introduced about 80 New Haven public high school students to psychiatry.

From left, Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD; Abiba Salahou, MD; and Younji Lee, MD, have published a chapter in Lewis’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook.

Ebony Dix, MD, left, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Victoria (Tia) Kozar, MD, right, second-year resident in the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program, were recognized with awards at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.

Yale investigators, in collaboration with a team of international scientists, have nearly doubled the known genetic landscape of endometriosis, a chronic and often debilitating inflammatory disease affecting approximately 10% of women worldwide. Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc, is senior author of the paper, published in Nature Genetics.