APA/Lilly Resident Research Award

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2012 WINNERS

Chadi Abdallah, MD, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Manuscript:  Hippocampal volumetric alterations, in riluzole--‐treated patients with GAD, mirror variations in N--‐Acetylaspartate (NAA): support for NAA as a neuroplasticity marker?
Training Director: Michael Myers, MD

Venkataramana Bhat, MD, McGill University, Montreal Canada
Manuscript: Apolipoprotein E2 allele promotes use of spatial strategies in a human virtual navigation task
Training Director: Karl Looper, MD

Obiora E. Onwuameze, MD, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Manuscript: Risk factors for depression among Iowa farmers
Training Director: Donald W. Black, MD

Suraj pal Singh, MBBS, Medical College of Wisconsin
Manuscript: Reduced Brain Functional Connectivity in Middle-aged Children of Alzheimer Patients (CAPS), Carriers of APOE-e4 Gene: A resting state functional MRI study
Training Director: Mara Pheister, MD

Alan Teo, MD, University of California, San Francisco
Manuscript: The Relationship Between Level of Training and Accuracy of Violence Risk Assessment
Training Director: Ellen Haller, MD

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The American Psychiatric Association is pleased to announce the continuation of the annual APA/Lilly Resident Research Award Competition.  This award, supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company provides an honorarium of $1,500 to five psychiatry residents who submit the best, original, unpublished scientific paper.  In addition, a $1,000 award is given to the residency program in which the resident was in training at the time the work was completed.  The award will be presented to the recipients during the 2013 APA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Each resident may submit one document which outlines the scope and results of the research conducted.  The research study should be in the form of a finished paper suitable for publication.  Please note that the paper must describe original scientific research; case reports and literature reviews will not be accepted.  Applications will not be accepted from previous winners of this award.

In order to ensure a fair and impartial review, the Award Board reviews each submission anonymously with no identifying information on the resident or the affiliated training program.  It would therefore be helpful if the resident’s name is not printed on each page of the document.

The nomination packet should include the following:
1. Research paper
2. Updated copy of Curriculum Vitae
3. Signed statement by chair or program director

All submissions must be postmarked no later than Monday, December 3, 2012, to be considered.  Papers postmarked after that date will not be accepted.


Please forward all correspondence to:
American Psychiatric Association
Attn: Ernesto A. Guerra
1000 Wilson Blvd. Ste. 1825
Arlington, VA 22209

If you have any questions for require additional information about the award requirements, please contact Ernesto A. Guerra at 703-907-8622;1-800-852-1390 or eguerra@psych.org. Electronic submissions should be sent to eguerra@psych.org.