Congratulations to Brittany Goldstein, MD, one of six new recipients of the 2024-2025 Webb Fellowship! The Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) created the William Webb Fellowship Program to foster the career development and leadership potential of advanced psychiatry residents and C-L Psychiatry fellows at an early stage in their career. Dr. Goldstein, one of our Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellows, has developed a trial that will investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of an adjunctive mindfulness intervention for managing distress in patients seen by the C-L service at UW. Implementation of the study is funded by a Trainee Research Award through the department’s Clinician Scientist Training Program.

“I have long been interested in using behavioral interventions to help patients with medical comorbidities,” says Dr. Goldstein. This interest has developed in clinical settings, where she treated chronic pain and chronic fatigue, and research settings with grants for studies in postural tachycardia syndrome and inpatient C-L service.

The fellowship will allow Dr. Goldstein to build a broader network within the C-L Psychiatry community and bolster the regional and national recognition necessary to advance in an academic career. “Within academia, I hope one day to serve as a medical school psychiatry clerkship director,” Dr. Goldstein says. “I have greatly valued the role of mentors in my personal and professional development. This program will not only open multiple sources of mentorship, it will also provide me with unique experiences that afford me the ability to mentor younger trainees.”