Abiba Salahou, MD, third-year resident, has been awarded the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Educational Outreach Program Award for General Psychiatry Residents.
The program gives general psychiatry residents a formal overview of the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, establish child and adolescent psychiatrists as mentors, and allows them to attend the AACAP Annual Meeting which this year will be in Chicago. Other opportunities include participation in a mentorship program, academic and networking sessions, an awards breakfast, and focus groups.
AACAP is the largest national professional home of over 10,000 child and adolescent psychiatrists and trainees.
Salahou is a 2024-2025 APA SAMHSA Resident Fellow and a member of the national Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her clinical interests include childhood trauma, school-based mental health, racial trauma, acculturation stress and immigrant mental health. She currently serves as a chair of the Yale Minority House Staff Organization Community Service Committee, a mentor in the Yale Post Graduate Association MAP program and is actively involved in the Yale Psychiatry Residents' Association.