First-year student wins psychiatry fellowship

First-year medical student, Akua Amponsah, was selected as one of only five 2000 James Comer Minority Research Fellows by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Medical students from across the United States apply for this annual award.

The Comer Fellowship provides funds for medical students to work during the summer with a child and adolescent psychiatrist mentor. Amponsah will continue work with her mentor, Dr. David Rosenberg, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and director of Child and Adolescent Research Services and the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinical Research Program.

The fellowship will also allow Amponsah to accompany Dr. Rosenberg to the annual meeting of the AACAP in New York this October. At the meeting, Amponsah and other Comer Fellows will present their research and attend seminars specifically geared for young researchers.