Yale Residency Program News

Residents 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.

Many current and former Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty and trainees attended the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Meeting April 16-20 in Arlington, Va.

With help from gravity, perfectly spaced steps at a college football stadium in Ohio, and a spring toy that has entertained people for generations, resident Joe Luchsinger, MD, PhD, and his family set a world record that has earned them a spot in Guinness World Records.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry on March 20 announced its 2026 Match Class for the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program.