Yale Residency Program News

Laila Knio, MD, third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, is the first author of two papers published in January 2025 in Current Addiction Reports and Journal of Medical Humanities.

Four Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers, Julio Nunes, MD; Rebecca Suh, PhD; Mehmet Sofuoglu, MD, PhD; and Joao P. De Aquino, MD, investigated whether pain predicts daily cigarette smoking and if daily cigarette smoking predicts the development of pain. The results were published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Third-year residents Nicholas Pratt, MD, RN; Ricky Madhavan, MD; and Joseph Luchsinger, MD, PhD, are co-authors of a letter in JAMA Internal Medicine that discusses the use of artificial intelligence in end-of-life decision making.

Yale researchers set out to identify practical steps to thrive in postdoctoral training, through a qualitative study where three distinct themes emerged.

Marcos Moreno, MD, a fourth-year resident and public psychiatry fellow, has been selected as the keynote speaker for the Indigenous Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Conference in Tucson, Ariz.

Yang Jae Lee, MD, fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been selected to be a 2025 Laughlin Fellow of The American College of Psychiatrists (ACP).

Henry Kietzman, MD, PhD, and Alyssa Nielsen, MD, both second-year residents, have been selected as new co-presidents of the Yale Psychiatry Residents' Association.

John Cahill, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been selected to be director of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program.

Julio Nunes, MD; Oluwole Jegede, MD, MPH; and Joao De Aquino, MD are co-authors of a paper in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse that discusses how racism-related stress and disparities in addiction treatments may impact pain experience, diagnosis, treatment, development of opioid use disorder, and perpetuation of stigma.