Residents Chosen for APA/Shire Fellowship

The APA/Shire Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowships have been awarded to four residents for 2003-04. The recipients are R. Gregg Dwyer, M.D., Ed.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine; Niranjan Karnik, M.D., Ph.D., of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University Medical Center; Robyn L. Ostrander, M.D., of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; and William Wood, M.D., of Massachusetts General and McLean hospitals. They were selected from 43 applicants.

The APA/Shire Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship is designed to address some of the particular concerns and generate interest in work with children and adolescents. APA believes it is imperative to expose residents to the most exciting new clinical research and the most successful public programs for the treatment of seriously mentally ill children and adolescents.

The two-year fellowship includes travel and meeting expenses to two APA annual meetings and work with mentors on specific issues in child and adolescent psychiatry. At these meetings, the fellows will have opportunities to meet and network with leaders in child and adolescent psychiatry. They will be matched with mentors who will consult with them about items on the program of special interest. In addition, they will meet as a group to talk about the meeting presentations.

For the second year of the fellowship, each fellow will submit a proposal to the APA Scientific Program Committee for a workshop on a topic in child and adolescent psychiatry to be given at the 2004 annual meeting, which will be held in New York City from May 1 to 6.

The fellowship is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Shire Pharmaceuticals. It is overseen by the APA Council on Children, Adolescents, and Their Families and administered by the project manager of the Office of Children’s Affairs. ▪