AAAP-AADPRT Visiting Scholars Award in Addiction Education

AAAP and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) Addictions Committee are pleased to support the AAAP-AADPRT Visiting Scholars Award in Addiction Education.

AAAP members interested in supporting psychiatry residency programs and Child and Adolescent fellows to develop and improve their Addiction Psychiatry teaching and training are encouraged to apply to be a Visiting Scholar.

The award is granted to select psychiatry residency programs each academic year. Visiting Scholars may serve as content experts to train and coach faculty in teaching Addiction Psychiatry and help programs develop innovative approaches to incorporate and expand addiction teaching into general psychiatry settings. The Visiting Scholar will be used for consultation on education and training with their work supported by a stipend from AAAP’s Sheldon Miller Fund.

The submission period to apply to be a Visiting Scholar is March 6 – April 16, 2023. Submit applications to [email protected] with subject line: VISITING SCHOLAR APPLICATION.

Applicants are to submit a resume and no more than a 800-word document outlining the applicant’s experience with curriculum development and substance use disorder education and how to help a program achieve the following goals:

Support a Child and Adolescent fellowship program working towards developing their own integrated clinical services for outpatient child addictions, and access the current services as available in our community at various levels of care and how best to collaborate with community services.
Help the program develop a plan to access the current services as available in our community at various levels of care and how best to collaborate with community services.
Support a program to identify priorities/educational gaps that could be addressed using internal resources.
Visiting Scholar would be used for consultation on education and training.

Watch this webinar to learn more about the program

Structure of Consultation

The structure of the consultation will be mutually agreed upon by programs and visiting scholars and may include virtual consultation. Consultation may be spread over the academic year or may be consolidated into a shorter time frame to meet the goals of the program. Both the program and the scholar will be announced at the annual meetings of AADPRT and AAAP. For the first year of the program, a consultant has also been identified to support the visiting scholars

Educational Outcomes

Examples of educational outcomes for programs receiving this award include:

Developing teaching materials
Creating new addiction-focused rotations
Forging relationships with addiction specialty providers in the program’s local community, who may serve as educators in the program
Improving collaboration on the care of patients with SUD across interdisciplinary settings, such as primary care integration or infectious diseases
Developing local community partnerships for resident education, e.g. syringe exchanges, sober housing, judicial system
Other curricular ideas in addiction education reflecting program needs and required competencies in addictions

The 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar

Justine W. Welsh, MD

Justine W. Welsh, MD is a child/adolescent and adult addiction psychiatrist, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine.

She is the founder and Director of the Emory Healthcare Addiction Services and the Medical Director of the Addiction Alliance of Georgia, a collaboration between Emory University and the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.

Dr. Welsh will provide support to the University of California (UC)-Davis Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program, with Dr. Anne McBride leading the initiative for UC Davis. AADPRT announced UC-Davis Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as the selected program at their May Annual Meeting.

2023-2024 Program

The University of California (UC)-Davis Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program is working with Dr. Justine Welsh, to develop its own integrated clinical services for outpatient child addictions and to help the program understand the needs of the community that could be filled by targeted clinical training. They will also work to improve collaboration with community services and improve access to the current services available in the community at various levels of care.

Dr. Anne McBride is a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist at the University of California, Davis. She is the Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCD, Program Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at UCD, and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. Her primary clinical work is at the Sacramento County Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinic, the Child Behavioral Health Center and MIND Institute. Her primary forensic work involves consultation and evaluation of juveniles involved in the juvenile justice system where her passion for child addiction education originated. She was the 2020-2021 McDermott Assistant Editor-In-Residence for JAACAP, the 2021-2022 Editor of JAACAP Connect, and currently serves as the Assistant Editor for the Journal Club for JAACAP.

Past Visiting Scholars

2022-2023 Visiting Scholars and Program Information

The 2022-2023 Visiting Scholars

Amy M. Yule, MD

Dr. Amy Yule is board certified in adult, child, and addiction psychiatry. She is the Vice Chair of Addiction Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Yule works with youth with substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric disorders as well as their family in a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic. Her research has been focused on preventing substance use disorders in youth with psychiatric disorders, and treatments for youth with co-occurring disorders. Dr. Yule is the co-chair of the Substance Use Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as the Chair of the Women in Addiction Psychiatry Interest Group for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.

Scott A. Oakman, MD, PhD

Dr. Scott Oakman is board certified in adult and addiction psychiatry. He completed His MD and PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, then trained in Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry at the University of Michigan before returning to HealthPartners Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN as a Hospital Psychiatrist. He is as Associate Program Director of the Hennepin-Regions Psychiatry Residency Program in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Addiction rotation supervisor, and the Medical Student Site Director for University of Minnesota students at Regions. He also serves as a Medical Education consultant to the Annenberg Foundation Physician Training Program, and on various committees of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT) as well as AAAP.

Consultant

John A. Renner, Jr., MD

Dr. Renner is Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University and Associate Director of the Boston University/VA Boston Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. He is past President of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and former Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Council on Addiction Psychiatry. Dr. Renner has developed nationally recognized models for training psychiatrists to treat patients with substance use disorders. He has written extensively on the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction and has played a major role nationally training clinicians in the use of buprenorphine. He is senior editor of the American Psychiatric Association Publishing’s Handbook on Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder.

2022-2023 Program

University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine Psychiatry Residency

The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine Psychiatry Residency will be working with Addiction Scholar, Dr. Scott Oakman, to improve Addiction Psychiatry training in our program. Oklahoma has a wealth of diversity owing to its large Native American population. Due to historical marginalization and inequities in medical care, this population has some of the highest rates of addiction disorders. Part of our program expansion includes working on agreements with local tribes to provide needed addiction and mental health care to this poorly served segment of our community. The Visiting Scholar will be essential to helping us set up our first telemedicine addiction consultation service with a local Native American tribe. We also are planning a collaboration with a local methadone program to increase resident exposure to this patient population. The Visiting Scholar will also assist with review of our addiction didactic curriculum.

LSUHS- Shreveport Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

The LSUHS- Shreveport Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine is excited that Dr. Amy Yule will work with the CAP fellows, residents, and faculty to create a training curriculum for juvenile court and Department of Children and Family Services staff on The Impact of Substance Use on Child and Adolescent Development. In addition, reviewing and expanding the addictions curriculum for the general psychiatry residency program is a goal for the Award year.

Dr. Pamela McPherson is triple boarded in child & adolescent, adult, and forensic psychiatry. She is the Vice Chair and CAP Fellowship Program Director at the Louisiana State University health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. She has extensive background consulting with juvenile justice systems in multiple capacities including court-ordered evaluations, civil rights investigations, monitoring consent decrees, and assisting facilities in achieving compliance with standards of care. Scholarly activities including teaching child & adolescent and forensic psychiatry fellows and numerous publications and presentations addressing the treatment of children with developmental disabilities and justice-involved youth.

AAAP-AADPRT Visiting Scholars Award in Addiction Education

Fellowship and Programs

Structure of Consultation

Educational Outcomes