Ebony Dix, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Victoria (Tia) Kozar, MD, second-year resident in the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program, were recognized with awards at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP).
Dix was named AAGP Educator of the Year at the annual meeting, held April 16-20 in Arlington, VA. The award recognizes extraordinary efforts, innovations, and accomplishments that directly impact the quality of geriatric psychiatry education.
Kozar was honored with the AAGP Member-in-Training Research Award, presented to the most promising member-in-training. Honored trainees demonstrate a compassionate, humanistic approach to the care of older adults and excel in educational initiatives.
Dix and Kozar were nominated for the awards.
Dix’s training is in geriatric and interventional psychiatry. She is an attending psychiatrist and medical director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient Unit at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Saint Raphael Campus (SRC). She is also an attending psychiatrist for the Yale Interventional Psychiatric Service, providing ECT consultations and treatments at SRC.
In addition to leading a multidisciplinary team and providing clinical care to patients, she is a clinician educator, offering a teaching service for medical students, PA students, psychiatry residents, and geriatric psychiatry fellows.
Kozar works to bring integrated intergenerational programming to Yale and leads the Geriatric Psychiatry Interest Group. She is involved with the Graduate Medical Education Committee, working on curriculum development.
AAGP works to advance mental health care for aging adults.