Congratulations to fourth year medical student Brian Lusby, MSc, this year’s recipient of the Margaret O’Donnell Prize in Psychiatry. We award this prize to a senior medical student who has been highly involved in behavioral health issues and done outstanding academic work in psychiatry.
 
Brian has engaged in a wide range of activities including co-founding an international global health conference to motivate high school and undergraduate students interested in global mental health; co-leading an addiction medicine non-clinical elective; and founding a journal club to foster collaborative learning and ongoing engagement in addiction research. He has also engaged in research to enhance care accessibility in under-resourced settings for persons with substance use disorders and engaged with legislators and county officials to advocate for behavioral health bills to increase access to care. We thank him for the amazing work he has done thus far for our field and for the many things we know he will accomplish as a psychiatrist and colleague in the future.