May 18, 2026 | View Online | Psychiatric News

Resident and Medical Student Poster Winners

In addition to the hundreds of scientific sessions at this year’s Annual Meeting, more than a thousand research posters are being presented, including many studies led by residents and medical students. It’s long been an Annual Meeting tradition for APA to recognize tomorrow’s psychiatry leaders with the Resident/Medical Student Poster Competition. Winners are selected from posters across five categories: clinical case studies, community psychiatry, curriculum/education, patient-oriented care/epidemiology, and psychosocial/biological research.

Left to right: Vishal Madaan, M.D., APA vice president of education and deputy medical director; medical student Rivka Steinberg; Brittany Bullamore, program manager in APA’s Office of Scientific Programs; medical student Annabelle Elikan; resident Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D.; Vanita Sahasranaman, M.D., co-chair of the Annual Meeting Poster Subcommittee; resident Dilan Shah, M.D.; and Edmond Pi, M.D., chair of the Annual Meeting Poster Subcommittee. Not pictured: medical student Luka Zrnic.

The winners of this year’s competition—each of whom received a medal to go along with bragging rights—were selected yesterday morning:

Clinical Case Studies Award
“Impact of Burn Etiology on Psychiatric Outcomes Following Burn Injury,” by Luka Zrnic, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Community Psychiatry Award
“The ADAPT Program: An Adaptive Ballet Intervention to Improve Motor and Behavioral Outcomes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” by Annabelle Elikan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Curriculum Development and Education Award
“Simulating Ethics: Case Report and Literature Review of Simulation-Based Medical Education for Training Psychiatry Residents in Moral Decision-Making,” by Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Health

Patient-Oriented Care and Epidemiology Award
“Attention and Memory Among Adults: The Role of ADHD Symptoms and Cannabis Use,” by Dilan Shah, M.D., University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Psychosocial and Biomedical Research Award
“HRV – A Resilience Factor,” by Rivka Steinberg, University of Michigan Medical School. ■