The following women psychiatry residents have been selected to participate in the 2000 Aventis Women Residents Travel Program. This program pays the recipients’ travel expenses to attend APA’s 2000 annual meeting in Chicago.

The program is coordinated by the APA Office of Career Development and Women’s Programs and supported through an educational grant from Aventis Pharmaceuticals. The recipients were selected on the basis of their interest in future leadership positions in organized medicine and APA.

The recipients are being invited to participate in a "track" of sessions and activities at the annual meeting that are of special interest to women and residents. They will also have the opportunity to meet and network with nationally recognized women leaders in psychiatry and with each other at a luncheon on Monday, May 15.

Jennifer Abramson, University of Washington

Hagit Bat-Avi, Beth Israel Medical Center

Carolyn Benson, University of Rochester Medical Center

Trina Bivens, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Jenny Boyer, Griffin Memorial Hospital

Kimberly Busi, New York University

Chiachen Cheng, McMaster University

Laura Childress-Hazen, Allegheny General Hospital

Sharyn Comeau, Massachusetts General Hospital

Mary Edmondson, Duke University

Warachal Faison, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Sharon Falco, New York University School of Medicine

Tamar Gershon, Stanford University

Janet Grissom, University of Utah

Kamlyn Haynes, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Leslie Horton, University of Southern California

Karine Igartua, McGill University

Hannah Kim, University of Hawaii

Lisa Anne Kotler, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Jelena Kunovac, University of California at San Diego

Catherine Lager, Harvard Longwood

Jacqueline Lebel, Brown University

Cindy Marshall, Baylor College of
Medicine

Megan Marumoto, University of Hawaii

Cheryl McCullumsmith, University of Michigan

Jacqueline McGregor, Baylor College of Medicine

Catharine Munn, McMaster University

Nancy Needell, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Campus

Linda Odom, Saint Louis University

Britta Ostermeyer, Columbia University

Brooke Parish, Tulane University

Sheila Patton, University of British Columbia

Jennifer Payne, Johns Hopkins University

Shauna Reinblatt, Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Maria Ruiz-Sweeney, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Tamar Seiver, University of California, San Francisco

Sue Sisley, Good Samaritan Medical Center

Renee Snow, University of Pennsylvania

Frances Ybanez, West Virginia University

Georgina Zahirney, McGill University