Resident Achievements 2023–2024
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Leadership and Professional Development
Samir Abu-Hamad was selected for the Laughlin Fellowship at the American College of Psychiatrists.
Samir Abu-Hamad and Katherine Karlay were inducted into the UT Southwestern Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society.
Tope Adedolapo was selected for the American Psychiatric Association’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship.
Maravet Baig-Ward received the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law (AAPL) Rappaport Fellowship and presented at the Gold Humanism Honor Society National Summit in Atlanta.
Rachel Beck was named an American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry Scholar.
Isabel Clark, Vincent Li and Vinay Kotamarti served as Chief Residents for the General Psychiatry Program. Dani Morelli and Charlotte McLean served as Chief Residents for the Medicine/Psychiatry Program. Vika Ragland served as Chief Resident for the Neurology/Psychiatry Program.
Donald Egan received the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry’s (AAAP) John Renner Travel Award.
Özlem Hökelekli received the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health’s Southwestern Scholarship at the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Katherine Karlay was selected for the National Neuroscience Ambassadors Fellowship and received a travel award to attend the international ECT conference.
Christian Monsalve received the Best Oral Presentation Prize at the 26th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was awarded the 2024-2025 American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship. He received the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Educational Outreach Program for General Psychiatry Residents. He continued to participate in the American Psychiatric Association Ethics Committee as an APA/APAF Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow.
Dani Morelli was awarded an American Board of Internal Medicine Grant for” Building Trust Through Diversity, Health Care Equity, Inclusion and Diagnostic Excellence in Internal Medicine Training”.
Kayla Murphy was elected as a Resident-Fellow Member representative to the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (AMP).
Thomas Pak was awarded the APA Public Psychiatry Fellowship. He is also a member of the Medical Student and Resident Committee Member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and was awarded an Education Outreach Program Award from AACAP. He also served as PGY-2 Class Rep, and on the Mentorship Committee, Bad Outcomes Committee, Social Media Committee, and Residency Selection Committee of UTSW Psychiatry.
Parsa Ravanfar was selected for the American Psychiatric Association’s SAMHSA Funded Minority Fellowship.
Tobi Saliu and Seena Ounsinegad were selected for the American Psychiatric Association’s Diversity Leadership Fellowship.
Scholarly Presentations and Publications
Thomas Pak presented a panelist session of "Healthcare Heroes are Human Too" at AACAP in New York. Thomas also presented a poster at the Society of Biological Psychiatry conference. He also published an opinion piece in JAACAP about Wicked: The Musical, published in Academic Psychiatry about "Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry: Threat or Blessing?" and in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice " Navigating the Discussion of Mental Illness with Vietnamese Americans." He also published in Kevin, MD of "Beyond K-pop and kimchi: Unraveling the mental health tapestry of Korean Americans."
Seena Ounsinegad’s poster, “OCD on the Psychosis Spectrum” was presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.
Kayla Murphy presented two oral presentations at the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry annual meeting titled, "Neuromodulation in Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD)" and "Fall Risk and Prevention: A Guide for the Geriatric Mental Health Workforce." She also presented an oral presentation at the American Geriatric Society annual meeting titled, "Dementia Dialogue: An Educational Workshop for Medical Students.” She presented two posters at the AGS annual meeting titled “The Impact of Emphasizing Confirmatory Blood Pressure in a Geriatric Clinic" and "Dementia Dialogue: An Educational Workshop for Medical Students.” She also presented a poster at the ACP Texas Chapter meeting titled "Impact of Confirmatory Blood Pressure Measurement at Internal Medicine Clinics at a Large Academic Medical Center" and a poster at the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry annual meeting titled "Treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Systematic Review.”
Christian Monsalve delivered the oral presentation "The Changing Landscape of Recommendations for the Treatment of Youth with Gender Incongruence" at the 26th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He delivered the oral presentation "Physician Assisted Suicide: Racial Disparities in California, New Jersey, and Oregon in 2021" at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Consult-Liaison Psychiatry in Austin, Texas. He delivered the Short Oral Communications Presentation "Emerging Differences Among Recommendations for the Treatment of Youth with Gender Dysphoria" at the 23rd World Psychiatric Association World Congress of Psychiatry in Vienna, Austria.
Vinay Kotamarti presented "Disentangling the Diagnoses of Psychotic Depression, Catatonia, Neurocognitive Disorders, and Delirium: A Multidisciplinary Approach."
Vincent Li presented a poster titled "Pep up the prep needs assessment to improve a psychiatry clerkship shelf exam review;" a poster titled "A cultural psychiatry curriculum overhaul: an approach to reimagining cultural psychiatry in psychiatry resident didactics;" and co-presented a workshop titled "Beyond cultural competency: developing and implementing a cultural psychiatry curriculum" at the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) 2023 Annual Meeting.
Donald Egan, Rachel Beck, and Trisha Modi presented a workshop titled, “Interventional Psychiatry: Are We Ready to Train?” at the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.
Adam Dinoff’s poster “Persistent Delirium” was presented at the American Neuro-Psychiatric Association.
Enrique Chiu-Han presented a poster "The Schelling Landscape: A Platonic View on Intention and Cognition" at The Science of Consciousness 2024 conference in Tucson, AZ.
Enrique Chiu Han, Sravan Narapureddy, and Rachel Beck presented a workshop titled "A Trip into the Future: Preparing Residents for Psychedelics and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy" at the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.
Maravet Baig-Ward presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the Gold Humanism Honor Society Summit in 2024.
Teaching and Education
Maravet Baig-Ward presented 4 different didactic lectures (2 for residents, 1 for medical students, and 1 for psychology faculty and trainees), and presented to a high school student workshop.
Rachel Beck, Lindsay Szauter, Bryan Kromenacker, Allyson Davis, and Donald Egan served as Psychiatry Facilitators for medical students in the UT Southwestern Colleges program.
Enrique Chiu-Han co-founded and helped organize monthly activities for the resident psychedelics interest group.
Enrique Chiu Han, Sravan Narapureddy, Rachel Beck, Zachary Kennedy, Samir Abu-Hamad, and Vika Ragland planned and developed a 4-hour special seminar on the therapeutic use of psychedelics in psychiatry given to the PGY1-PGY4 residents in 2023.
Enrique Chiu-Han, Sravan Narapureddy, Rachel Beck, Vika Ragland, Samir-Abu Hamad, and Zachary Kennedy organized the special seminar on psychedelics.
Enrique Chiu Han, Rachel Beck, Parsa Ravanfar, and Sravan Narapureddy planned and presented a 3-hour special seminar on psychedelics to graduating MS4 medical students as part of their Frontiers in medicine curriculum.
Vincent Li co-led a didactic seminar on giving and receiving feedback and facilitated psychiatric educational sessions in the UTSW Simulation Center for medical students.
Dani Morelli led the UTSW Medical School Colleges Ethics Session on Responding to Microaggressions.
Thomas Pak is vice-chair of the American Medical Association RFS Committee on Medical Education and is a Council Member of the National Board of Medical Examiners. Thomas also taught a dance workshop and hosted a fashion show at the AACAP in New York. At UTSW psychiatry, Thomas also coordinated with other residents for a special didactic on Adverse Patient Outcomes.
Advocacy and Community Service
Thomas Pak, Sruveera Sathi, Tobi Saliu, Stephanie Bui, and Brendalyn Iweh served as Co-Chairs of the Mentorship Committee.
Emily Nguyen and Donald Egan served as Co-Representatives for Organized Psychiatry (NTSPP). Tope Adedolapo and Sarah Elmer began service as rising Co-Representatives.
Emily Nguyen and Rachel Beck were Co-Presidents of the Psychiatry Residents Organization (PRO). Zachary Kennedy served as PRO Vice President and Parsa Ravanfar as PRO PGY2 Class Representative. Seena
Ounsinegad began service as the rising PRO Vice President and Victoria Okuneye began service as the rising PRO PGY2 Class Representative.
Christian Monsalve continued to volunteer as a Counseling Coordinator for Faith Fitness Ministry, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in Dallas, where he connects local young adults of limited financial means with grants to subsidize psychotherapy.
Vincent Li Served as a clinical team leader for medical and health professions students during the Southwestern Christian Fellowship annual medical mission trip.
Özlem Hökelekli served as Chair of the Wellness Committee.
Enrique Chiu-Han, Seena Ounsinegad, Sun Choi, and Thomas Pak have been volunteering in the Match Master’s program providing support for medical students in the application process.
Rachel Beck and Lindsay Szauter organized a group of residents to help with the "Be a Santa for a Senior" program by purchasing holiday gifts for older adults in need at Home Instead Senior Care.
Bobbie Banner, Donald Egan, and Lindsay Szauter served as Co-Chairs of the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Committee. Seena Ounsinegad, Ashley Ernst, and Lauren Ford began service as the rising Co-Chairs.
Maravet Baig-Ward served as Chair of the Bad Outcomes Committee.