2021 ACLP Fellows

Omair Abbasi, MD
Joseph Cerimele, MD
Dustin DeMoss, DO, MS
Anna Dickerman, MD
Margo Funk, MD, MA
Alan Hsu, MD
Eva Ihle, MD, PhD
Elie Isenberg-Grzeda, MD
Sheila Lahijani, MD
Katy LaLone, MD
R. Brett Lloyd, MD, PhD
Curtis McKnight, MD
Shamim Nejad, MD
Durga Roy, MD
Dahlia Saad Pendergrass, MD
Scott Simpson, MD, MPH
Jane Walker, MBChB, MSc, PhD

Eleanor & Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award

James Bourgeois, MD, OD, FACLP
Presentation: From Boston to Austin: A Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Journey

Award of Special Recognition

Jesse Fann, MD, FACLP
Jane Walker, MBChB, PhD

Stoudemire Innovations in Education Award

Scott Simpson, MD, MPH, University of Colorado, Anschutz Colorado School of Medicine
Educational Project: Verbal De-Escalation of the Agitated Patient Online Curriculum

Wayne Katon Research Award

Sir Simon Wessely, FMedSci, FRS
Presentation: Thirty Years of Dealing with Trauma – Or How Not to Make a Bad Thing Worse

ACLP Foundation Research Professor Award

David Arciniegas, MD, FACLP
Presentation: Research for Researchers: Cognition and Cholinergic Function after Traumatic Brain Injury: Lessons in TBI Translational Neuroscience

Early Career Researcher Mentee Award

Erica Baller, MD
Elizabeth Prince, DO
Melissa Bui, MD

William L. Webb Fellowship

Christian Bjerre Real, MD, MMCI, FAPA
Andrew Drysdale, MD   
Molly Howland, MD
Artin Mahdanian, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Charles Masaki, MD
Amanda Mihalik-Wenger, MD

Don R. Lipsitt Award for Achievement in Integrated & Collaborative Care

Jamie Zahlaway Belsito
Presentation: A Patient's Perspective

Dlin/Fischer Clinical Research Award

Vishal Ahuja
Presentation: Impact of co-locating mental and behavioral health providers with primary care providers and specialists on patient outcomes

Dorfman Journal Paper Awards

For the best papers published in the Academy's journal, the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

• Best Case Report: COVID-19 Psychosis: A Potential New Neuropsychiatric Condition Triggered by Novel Coronavirus Infection and the Inflammatory Response? Stephen J. Ferrando, MD, Lidia Klepacz, MD, Sean Lynch, BA, Mohammad Tavakkoli, MD, Rhea Dornbush, PhD, Reena Baharani, MD, Yvette Smolin, MD Abraham Bartell, MD (September/October 2020)
• Best Article for Original Research: Ictal SPECT in Psychogenic Nonepileptic and Epileptic Seizures, Jose Gallucci-Neto, MD, MMSc, Andre Russowsky Brunoni, MD, PhD, Carla Rachel Ono, MD, PhD, Lia Arno Fiore, MD, MMSc, Luiz Henrique Martins Castro, MD, PhD, Renato Luiz Marchetti, MD, PhD (January/February 2021)
• Best Review Article: Stiff-Person Syndrome and Psychiatric Comorbidities: A Systematic Review, Deirdre Caffrey, MD, Christine T. Finn, MD, Seoho Michael Song, Frederick Burton, Cybele Arsan, MD (January/February 2021)

Trainee Registration Grant Awards 

Alissa Hutto, MD
Deirdre Caffrey, MD
Bill Chen, MS
Kaitlyn Crutchley    
Stephen Ferrando, MD
Jose Gallucci-Neto, MD
Veronika Hanko, MD
Jennifer Hsu    
Madhuri Jakkam, MBBS
Meghan Keil, MD
Anton Makhiboroda    
Ekaterina Prostensko    
Margaret Puelle, MD
Eric Weaver    
Bernice Yau, MD

Poster Award Winners

• Best Poster 1st place: PO-134: The Effect of Agitation on the Sensitivity of the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale Screener to Suicide Risk After Emergency Department Visit, Christian Goans et al.
• Best Poster 2nd place: PO-171: A Descriptive Analysis of Pharmacological Management of Aggression and/or Agitation in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury in a Southwestern Virginia Inpatient Population, Elham Rahmani et al.
• Best Poster 3rd place: PO-087: Collaborative Care Service for Psychiatric Disorders in a General Hospital Emergency Department: What Has Changed in the Patients Profile in the Context for COVID-19 Pandemic?, Adriana G. Bueno et al.
• Best Trainee Poster 1st place: PO-048: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Prevalence of Substance Use Disorders in Medically Hospitalized Patients, Kelsey Collins et al.
• Best Trainee Poster 2nd place: PO-025: Mortality Among Patients with Sepsis Associated with a Bispectral Electroencephalography (BSEEG) Score, Pedro S. Marra et al.
• Best Trainee Poster 3r place: PO-039: Expanding the Role of Psychiatrists to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Clozapine-Treated Patients with Serious Mental Illness: A Quality Improvement Project, Carol Lim et al.
• Best Case Report Poster: PO-132: Successful Resumption of Clozapine with Immunosuppressants in Liver Transplantation: Case Report and Review of Literature, Alan Wai et al. 

With thanks to the Foundation of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry for its support to the Don R. Lipsitt Award, ACLP Foundation Research Professor Award, and Trainee Travel Awards