2025 residency didactic award winners

Department News | June 23, 2025


These resident-selected awards recognize faculty and guest didactic speakers for their excellence in teaching and their valued contributions to resident education.​

​Best Case-Based Learning Award​

  • Stephanie Corp, DO – Medical Clearance​
  • Amelia Dubovsky, MD and Chris Nguyen, MD – Complex Decisional Capacity and Safety Monitoring Case Discussion​
  • Nadejda Bespalova, MD – Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Bipolar Mania in the Outpatient Setting; SUD in Women​
  • Joan Fiore, PhD – Couples and Family Therapy​

​Best Inclusion of EDI Concepts and Language​

  • Dana Dieringer, MD – Restraints and Seclusion​
  • Laurel Pellegrino, MD and Cummings Rork, MD, PMH-C – Physician Response to Patient Suicide​
  • Maria Yang, MD – Psychotic Disorders Treatment Cases Part 1; Homelessness and Psychiatry​
  • Christine Curry, MD – Social Justice and Structural Violence in Public Sector Psychiatry
  • Rebecca Hendrickson, MD, PhD – Criticisms of Psychiatry and Patient Movements​
  • Amanda Seely, MD – Psychiatric Epistemology: Deconstructing the Clinical Gaze​

Best Incorporation of Evidence-Based Information​​

  • Garth Terry, MD, PhD – Cannabis​​
  • Paul Borghesani, MD, PhD – Ten (or so) Essential Papers on Antipsychotics​​
  • Stephen Thielke, MD, MS, MA – Geriatric Psychopharmacology: Advanced​​
  • Jonathan Buchholz, MD – Addiction Psychopharmacology: Advanced​​

Most Engaging Lecturer​​

  • Heidi Combs, MD, MS – Diagnosis and Psychopathology of Personality Disorders: Intro; Diagnosis and Psychopathology of Catatonia​​
  • Robin Berger, MD – Starting Supportive Therapy: MBT Skills​​
  • Stephen Thielke, MD, MS, MA – Dementia: Intro​​
  • Paul Borghesani, MD, PhD – Neuroscience Series​​
  • Bertrand Wicholas, MD – Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy series