ADAA Membership Award for Early Career Professionals Recipients

Congratulations to the annual ADAA Membership Award for Early Career Professionals Scholarship Recipients

View the 2026 recipients.

2025

• Gifty Ampadu, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
• Allegra Anderson, PhD, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
• Camille Archer, BA, Vanderbilt University
• Eileen Barden, PhD, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine
• Emily Bivins, BS, Marquette University
• Cameryn Cooley, BA, Ohio State University
• Ryan DeLapp, PhD, The Ross Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders
• Kenneth Fling, BS, University of Maryland, College Park
• Kolin Lewis, BA, National Institute of Mental Health
• Azul Lozoya Gomez, BA, NW Anxiety Institute
• Rakshitha Mohankumar, MA, University of Nevada
• Anthony Morales, BS, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
• Puneet Parmar, BA, University of Maine
• Akilah Patterson, MPH, University of Michigan
• Purnima Qamar, BS, National Institute of Mental Health
• Shaurel Valbrun, BA, Wayne State University School of Medicine
• Di Yao, BS, BA, Vanderbilt University
• Nur Hani Zainal, PhD, National University of Singapore
• Chang Zhao, PhD, BWH, Harvard Medical School 

2024

• Madison Boschulte, BS, Boston University
• Taylar Clark, Postgraduate Associate, Yale Child Study Center
• Nia Cole, BS, Binghamton University
• Jasmine Lewis, PhD student, Virginia Tech
• Elizabeth Martin, MD, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
• Jesus Solano-Martinez, MA, DePaul University
• Daniela Moreno-Duron, BA, University of Kansas
• Yvette Pino, PhD, University of Arizona
• Ritika Rastogi, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Dominique Simms, PhD student, University of Arizona

2023

• Elisa Borrero, MA
• Berron Brown, BS
• Michelle Fernando, PhD
• Davena Mgbeowkere, MSW, LCSW
• Manessa Riser, BS
• Jenny Shen, MA
• Shimarith Wallace, BS

2022

• Darius Dawson, PhD
• Cecilia Hinojosa, PhD
• Courtney Louis, MA
• Jiyoung Song, BA
• Saydra Wilson, MD

2021

• Matthew Brown, MS
• Terence Ching, MS, PhD Candidate
• Christy DaBreo-Otero, MA
• Jenny Jung-Mi Kim Goebel, MS, LCSW
• Tamela Hughes, BS
• Dominique Luisa La Barrie
• Kevin Narine, BA
• Stephanie Ortiz Domenech, PhD Candidate
• Eve Rosenfeld, MA
• Margaret White, MS, PhD Candidate