Recognition
Awards and honors
Recognition for research, clinical work, and physician-scientist development, from medical school through the present.
Press coverage of Dr. Giddens’s research is collected on the In the News page.
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2027
Past Near-Peer Mentee Scholarship, 65th Annual Meeting
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Scholarship to the 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego, January 10–13, 2027, for former Near-Peer Mentorship participants who have continued in neuropsychopharmacology research. Dr. Giddens took part in the Near-Peer program in 2024.
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2026
Career-Spanning Mentorship Award
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
A competitive three-year award pairing an early-career physician-scientist with a senior ACNP member, with support to attend the annual meeting each year. Awarded in association with the NIH.
The College’s notification: selected from a pool of more than 100 scientists. -
2024
Outstanding Resident Award
National Institute of Mental Health
The NIMH Outstanding Resident Award Program (ORAP) recognizes psychiatry residents with outstanding potential in research, clinical care, and leadership. Only 10 to 20 PGY-2 residents are selected each year, limited to one per program from more than 300 residency programs across the United States, and brought to the NIH campus in Bethesda for scientific sessions and mentorship with NIMH investigators.
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2023
Art Walaszek Travel Award
Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting
Awarded in the first year of residency to present a poster on inpatient management of ARFID and malnutrition in an adult with OCD at the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting; abstract in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Presenting the poster at the ACLP Annual Meeting, 2023. -
2023
Educational Outreach Program for General Psychiatry Residents
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
AACAP’s Educational Outreach Program brings general psychiatry residents with a demonstrated interest in children and adolescents to the Annual Meeting for mentoring and specialty programming. Selection is limited to one to two trainees per residency program nationally. New York, October 2023.
AACAP 70th Annual Meeting, New York, October 2023. -
2020–2022
Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health
Competitive postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Neuroimaging under Dr. Nora Volkow, supporting research on sleep, substance use, and brain function.
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2016
Invited Guest, Weizmann Institute of Science
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Introduced to one of the world’s leading basic-research institutes as an invited guest, Dr. Giddens spent a week working with its scientists, including Chaim Weizmann’s original laboratory, the WEIZAC computer, and the Department of Neurobiology. Read about the visit.
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Medical school
NIH Intramural Research Program, Medical Student Research Fellowship
Division of Behavioral Endocrinology, National Institutes of Health
Selected during medical school at Howard University to conduct research within the NIH Intramural Research Program.