Annual meeting
Awards & Fellowships
Recognizing the Future of AADPRT
Awards/fellowships are how the AADPRT family recognizes outstanding achievement in psychiatric residency training. There are recognition opportunities for residents/fellows, program administrators, and psychiatrists. Please consider submitting nominations to strengthen our graduate education community.
Nominees can win only one award in a given year. Winning institutions are not eligible to submit nominees for the award won for a two-year period (e.g. nominated in 2024 (won in 2025) is eligible to submit again in 2027).
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Available awards/fellowships
- AAAP-AADPRT Visiting Scholars Award in Addiction Education
- Dr. Iverson Bell, Jr. Faculty Fellowship
- George Ginsberg Fellowship
- Lifetime Service Award
- Lucille Fusaro Meinsler (LFM) Program Administrator Award
- Nyapati Rao and Francis Lu International Medical Graduate (IMG) Fellowship
- Peter Henderson MD Memorial Award
Awardee expenses covered by AADPRT
Ginsberg, Henderson, IMG, LFM, Iverson Bell, Jr.
- Annual Meeting registration fee
- Airfare/ground transportation/airport parking OR mileage reimbursement/hotel parking (restrictions apply)
- Two nights at conference hotel (three nights for LFM awardee)
- Meals (restrictions apply)
Visiting Scholar Award in Addiction Education
- One night at conference hotel
Awards & Fellowships Endowment Campaign
The purpose of this campaign is to endow our awards & fellowships so operating funds aren't needed to cover those annual expenses. Endowments will be funded in left to right order -- once one is endowed, we'll begin funding the next endowment. Note below that one award is already endowed and two awards don't require funding.
- AAAP-AADPRT Visiting Scholars Award in Addiction Education -- No funding required
- Lifetime Service Award -- No funding required
- Lucille Fusaro Meinsler (LFM) Program Administrator Award -- FULLY ENDOWED!
Special gratitude for two strategic partners
Professional Risk Management Services (PRMS) generously underwrote Annual Meeting travel expenses for our 2026 IMG Fellowship recipients. For several years they have offered this outstanding gesture of support for the future of psychiatry.
PRMS U is an online education and risk management portal for residents/fellows and training directors. Access on-demand courses, state-specific resources, risk management articles, and more! To request access, click "Request Access" link below and reference PRMS U in your email.
Visit PRMS U
American Professional Agency, Inc. (APA) generously underwrote Annual Meeting travel expenses for our 2026 Ginsberg Fellowship recipients. We're very grateful to APA, Inc. for this outstanding gesture of support for the future of psychiatry.
Dr. Iverson Bell, Jr. Faculty Fellowship
There is a need for mentorship, and support for physicians interested in addressing gaps in mental health, especially junior and mid-career faculty in a community-based medical system, to not only lift them up and empower them, but to hear their voices and acknowledge their contributions. AADPRT will benefit from supporting a group of members to engage in the organization and increase pathways to leadership.
J.E.D.I. Committee Chair Theadia Carey and Bell, Jr. Award Committee Chair Ulrick Vieux offer mentorship to anyone wanting to go through the submission process. Email Theadia and/or Ulrick.
Nominating Deadline: September 22, 11:59pm CT
Lifetime Service Award
This award acknowledges an AADPRT psychiatrist member who has provided significant service to the organization over time. If you have questions regarding this award, contact the executive director.
Submission Deadline: September 22, 11:59pm CT
Award submission requirements include:
- Letter of nomination from a current or past AADPRT member detailing the nominee's contribution
- Nominee CV
- Brief bio of nominee
- Head shot of nominee
George Ginsberg Fellowship Awards
The George Ginsberg Fellowship acknowledges the excellence and accomplishments of outstanding residents interested in education and teaching who are pursuing careers as Clinician-Educators and/or Academic Administrators.
Submission Deadline: September 22
Previous award winners are not eligible.
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Nyapati Rao and Francis Lu International Medical Graduate (IMG) Fellowship
The Nyapati Rao and Francis Lu IMG Fellowship Program is designed to promote the professional growth of exceptional IMG residents and fellows and facilitate their successful development as leaders in American psychiatry.
Submission Deadline: September 22
Previous award winners are not eligible.
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Lucille Fusaro Meinsler Program Administrator Award
AADPRT recognizes the outstanding skills that psychiatry residency Program Administrators possess and utilize in the day-to-day management of a residency program.
Submission Deadline: September 22
Previous award winners are not eligible.
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Peter Henderson MD Memorial Award
The Henderson Award honors the late Peter Henderson, MD, the first child and adolescent psychiatrist to serve as AADPRT president (1983-1984), by recognizing the best published or unpublished work in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry.
Submission Deadline: September 22
Previous award winners are not eligible.
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AAAP-AADPRT Visiting Scholar Award in Addiction Education
The AAAP-AADPRT Visiting Scholars Award in Addiction Education was developed to promote and improve educational programming in addiction psychiatry for general psychiatry residents and Child and Adolescent (CAP) fellowships.
Submission Deadline: September 22
Previous award winners are not eligible.
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