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2025-2026 Psychiatry Teaching Awards

The Psychiatry Teaching awards are presented annually before the Department of Psychiatry’s Grand Rounds.  Their purpose is to honor excellence in teaching, supervision, mentoring or related instructional activities in a number of categories.  Nominees for each award are selected for their ingenuity, clinical skill, availability, supportiveness, inspiration, dedication, humanism, patience, respect for diversity, and improvement in the teaching process.


Outstanding Resident Teaching

Dominique Taylor, MD, MPP


Outstanding Faculty Psychology Teaching Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division

Natacha D. Emerson, PhD


Outstanding Faculty Housestaff Teaching Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division

Sabrina Reed, MD, MACM


Outstanding Faculty Housestaff Teaching Adult Psychiatry Division

Jennifer L. Kruse, MD


Outstanding Research Mentor

Sung-Jae Lee, PhD


Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Teaching

Robert V. Ashley, MD


Outstanding Medical Student Teaching

Michael Sassounian, MD


Outstanding Staff Psychiatrist Teaching

Katherine Unverferth, MD


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