Recognition
Awards and honors
Recognition for research, clinical work, and physician-scientist development, from medical school through the present.
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2026
Career-Spanning Mentorship Award
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
A competitive three-year award that pairs an early-career physician-scientist with a senior ACNP member for sustained mentorship, with support to attend the College's annual meeting each year. Awarded in association with the National Institutes of Health for the 65th Annual Meeting, in recognition of physician-scientist development.
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2024
Outstanding Resident Award
National Institute of Mental Health
Awarded to psychiatry residents nationally who demonstrate outstanding potential in research, clinical care, and leadership.
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2023
Art Walaszek Travel Award
Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting
Awarded during the first year of residency to present a poster on the multidisciplinary inpatient management of ARFID and malnutrition in an adult with OCD at the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting; the abstract appears in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
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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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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.