Awards and Scholarly Activities

2018 APA Abstracts and Posters


2018 Winner of the APA Resident/Medical Student Poster Competition – Clinical Case Studies
Marie Lyse Turk, MD, Lauren Solometo, DO – A Case of Human Rabies Encephalitis and a Review of Neuropsychiatric Symptomatology

2018 Winner of the APA Area Five Resident Fellow Member Poster Competition
Colleen Leitner, MD – Comorbidity of Depression and Anxiety Disorders and Cystic Fibrosis: A Retrospective Data Analysis

Gabriela Pachano, MD – Case Presentation

John Azer, MD – Amoxicillin/Clavulanic Acid-Induced Mania

John Azer, MD – Acute Psychosis or Kundalini Awakening? Considering Cultural Factors in the Evaluation of Psychosis

Marie Lyse Turk, MD, Anita Clayton, MD – A Case Report of Tardive Dyskinesia Caused by Clozapine Withdrawal

Marie Lyse Turk, MD, John Azer, MD – The Emergence of Mania in a Patient with Bipolar Disorder after the Use of Dextromethorphan/Quinidine: A Case Report and Literature Review

Lauren Solometo, DO, Marie Lyse Turk, MD – Aggressive Screening for Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis? A Case Report of a Nonspecific Psychiatric Presentation Leading to a Delay in Treatment

Quincy Zhong, MD – A Case of Convulsive Syncope mistaken for Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

Diana M. Robinson, MD, Donna T. Chen, MD, MPH – When syndromes collide: A case report of concurrent catatonia and delirium

Diana Robinson, MD – Media Literacy is the New Black

Diana Robinson, MD – “Assessing Capacity: It is not just you” Workshop

Melanie Miller, MD, Jacqueline Norman, DO, Chelsea Wolf, MD – Resident development of modules for teaching ethics in psychiatry with a sample case: coercion and psychiatric hospitalization

Chelsea Wolf, MD, Melanie Miller, MD, Jacqueline Norman, DO, Keri Stevenson, MD, Donna Chen, MD – Resident Development of Learning Modules for Teaching Ethics in Psychiatry with a Sample Case: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking

Michele Vargas, MD – A Case of Psychosis and Capgras Syndrome Following an Intracerebral Hemorrhage of the Right Basal Ganglia

Josh Smith, MD – Psychological Attributes and Psychosocial Barriers to Prevention of Recurrent Self Inflicted Burns

Patrick Buckley, MD, Joshua Smith, MD – Risk Factors for 12-month Readmission at an Academic Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Unit

Bao Vo, DO – Management of Acute Mania in a Peripartum Patient

Jaqueline Norman, DO – Psychiatric Ethics Case Discussion Modules Developed by Residents: Covert Medication Administration/Medications over Objection Case

Eliza Buelt, MD – A case of extrapyramidal symptoms with the co-administration of aripiprazole and paroxetine

Aisha Mondal, MD – The Role of Laboratory Values in Medication-Induced Female Sexual Dysfunction in the Outpatient Setting

Alexander Munjal, MD – Challenges in Diagnosis and Management of a Patient with Clozapine-induced Delirium

Joseph Ipacs, MD – A Case Report of Seasonal Recurrent Brief Psychotic Episodes

Jordan Rosen, MD – Amoxicillin- Induced Mania: A Case Report

Other Conferences 2018


Merkel RL, Snell-Rood C, Fullard B, Robinson DM. Symposium – Cultures and the Opioid Epidemic in Central Appalachia. The 39th Meeting of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture. San Diego, CA. April 19-21. Symposium accepted.

Robinson DM, Moreno M, Merkel L. Lost in Interpretation: A Case Report of Navigating a Communication Mistake with a Syrian Refugee. The 39th Meeting of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture. San Diego, CA. April 19-21. Poster accepted.