Department of Psychiatry

	Brian Barczak, MD, a PGY-2 resident, had an abstract entitled "Correlations Between MMPI-2 Profiles and Child Custody Preferences Among Disputing Biological Parents" accepted for presentation to the Southern Medical Association 100th Scientific Assembly Meeting in October 2006 in Charlotte, NC. This presentation is the result of research Dr. Barczak began as a medical student at Indiana University School of Medicine.
	Vincent Blanch, M.D., Ph.D. , a PGY-IV resident, recently received the APA Assembly William Sorum Award from the Area 5 Council of the APA.  This award is given to one resident per area in the APA each year who has contributed significantly to the APA or its components. Additionally, Dr. Blanch recently received funding from the APA Assembly to create a web-based survey to study psychiatry resident well-being. He hopes to survey residents nationally and to present the results of this study at the APA Assembly meeting next year. Vincent was chairperson of a component workshop at the recent APA Annual Meeting in Toronto Canada (2006) entitled "Career Choices in Psychiatry: Exploring Fellowship Training." He also was co-chairperson of a distinguished lecture series at the recent APA Annual Meeting in Toronto Canada (2006) entitled "Personality Disorders: Psychiatry's Step-Children Come of Age". His co-chairperson was Roslyn Seligman, M.D. and the presenter of the distinguished lecture was Joel Paris, M.D.
	Tyanne Dosh, M.D. , a PGY-1 resident , recently received the APA/Shire Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Award. This award is given to only 5 residents per year from around the U.S. who show potential to make significant contributions and become future leaders in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is also a co-author on the paper, "Pharmacological Management of a Teen with Significant Alcohol Use and Depression" that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Tyanne completed this work during a research elective as a medical student with Catherine Martin, M.D., the Vice Chair for Research at UK and a co-author on the paper. Tyanne is also a co-author on an upcoming presentation at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting in October 2006 entitled "College-Aged Cigarette Smokers: Personality and Substance Use." Dr. Martin and Greg Guenthner both from the UK Department of Psychiatry are co-authors on this presentation.
	Congratulations to resident Brian Dixon, M.D. for recently winning the APA/Shire Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Award. Brian joins Tyanne Dosh, M.D., who won this award last year, as an APA/Shire fellow. This award was given to 6 residents this year from around the U.S. who showed potential to make significant contributions and become future leaders in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Brian will go to the APA this year and in 2009 and will be exposed to what is happening on a national level in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This will occur through attending a special series of sessions, meeting with leaders in the field and being connected with a child psychiatrist/researcher who will serve as a mentor. It is very unusual to have 2 residents from one program win this award 2 years in a row so this award is a real honor for both Brian as well as our program.
	Mitchell Douglass, M.D., M.P.H., a PGY-3 Triple Board resident, will be exploring attitudes towards mental illness and suicide in Yunnan province, China this April 2007 under the supervision of Dr. Robert Kraus. Suicide trends in mainland China differ greatly from Western countries. For example, women complete suicide at a higher rate than men, the opposite of what is seen in the United States. Further, rural populations complete suicide at a higher rate than urban China, also the opposite of Western suicide trends. Yunnan province in southwest China is home to the largest population of Chinese minority populations. These include Bai, Naxi, and Tibetan populations. Dr. Douglass hopes to learn more about differences in attitudes towards suicide and mental illness between the majority Han population and these minority populations.