Current Laughlin Fellows
Each year, The College selects 12 third, fourth and fifth-year Residents from the United States and Canada and pays for them to attend our Annual Meeting. The Laughlin Fellows are chosen from an elite pool of applicants deemed likely to make a significant contribution to the field of psychiatry. They participate in all educational and social functions held during the Annual Meeting, making valuable contacts with their peers and College Members.
The College is pleased to announce the 2025 Laughlin Fellows:
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Adam Burroughs, M.D.Dr. Adam Burroughs graduated from the University of Arkansas summa cum laude and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He completed medical school and residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) where he served as the Chief Resident and is now a geriatric psychiatry fellow. He is his department’s Health Education and Development Talk director producing educational content on YouTube to facilitate interdisciplinary education. He has an interest in clinical ethics regarding the emerging treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. His experience in clinical ethics extends into the area of older adult driving. He created and presented materials on assessing and counseling older drivers at medical meetings in Arkansas, to the public, nationally and a book chapter is in the works. Outside of work, he enjoys exercising, service with his local church community, and spending time with his wife, one-year-old son and dog (Wookiee Baggins). |
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Donald Egan, M.D., M.P.H.Dr. Donald Egan is a fourth-year chief resident in psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is the founder of the Disability Advocacy, Research, and Education at UT Southwestern (DARES) organization, which aims to reduce stigma surrounding disability and chronic illness in healthcare. As an American Psychiatric Association (APA) Diversity Leadership Fellow, Dr. Egan has contributed to national conferences, delivered speeches, appeared on podcasts, and published on disability awareness, alongside serving on the APA Council on Addiction Psychiatry.
During residency, Dr. Egan developed an interventional psychiatry concentration for residents and introduced LGBTQ+ mental health education and training opportunities. These initiatives have informed his research on the intersection of interventional psychiatry and substance use, particularly within LGBTQ+ communities.
Following residency, Dr. Egan plans to pursue an addiction psychiatry fellowship and continue his work as a physician-scientist dedicated to advancing understanding in addiction and inclusive mental health care. |
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Jack Hunt, M.D., Ph.D.Dr. Jack Hunt is a fourth-year resident in the research residency track program at UC San Diego. He is passionate about promoting healthy and equitable mental aging in individuals and populations. He has a breadth of research experience spanning molecular neuroscience, pre-clinical animal and stem cell modeling to human neuroimaging cohort studies. Dr. Hunt is interested in bringing this multi-level and multidisciplinary perspective to understand risk and protective factors in cognitive aging and to improve mental health outcomes in individuals and our aging population. Prior to residency, Dr. Hunt completed an M.D, and Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He currently lives in San Diego with his wife and two rambunctious and hilarious kids (ages 4 and 7) and loves playing music and spending time outside. After graduation, he plans to complete a Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry. |
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Madeline Jansen, M.D., M.P.H.Dr. Madeline Jansen is a research fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a National Institute of Health T-32-funded research scholar at UCLA, Dr. Jansen’s research focuses on the development and implementation of culturally sensitive psychotherapies with a focus on multiracial populations.
Dr. Jansen is a graduate of Stanford University, Tulane School of Medicine and Public Health, Washington University Psychiatric Residency, and UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. A recipient of the competitive NIMH Child Intervention Prevention and Services Research Fellowship, Dr. Jansen is devoted to improving the mental health and well-being of our most vulnerable youth in both research in clinical practice. |
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Amanda Koire, M.D., Ph.D.Dr. Amanda Koire is a first-year Attending Psychiatrist in the Division of Women's Mental Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a Research Scientist at the Mary Horrigan Connors Center, and a consultant for the perinatal access line for the state of Massachusetts. During residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital she was an APA Leadership fellow, an AWP fellow, and co-founded Repro Psych Trainees, a national interest group for women’s mental health.
Her research focuses on maternal mental health and improving perinatal access to evidence-based psychiatric care through educational interventions. In her free time, she enjoys exploring Boston with her husband and two kids, eating eclairs, and watching NCAA gymnastics. |
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Yang Jae Lee, M.D.Dr. Yang Jae Lee’s interest in the Busoga region of Uganda began in 2015, when he conducted research on traditional medicines and health systems journalism during college. In 2018, during his first year of medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, he founded Empower Through Health, a nonprofit providing medical care to 10,000 people annually and psychiatric services to a population of over 400,000.
He also established the Global Health Experiential Fellowship, which offers in-person research experiences to pre-doctoral students from Uganda and the U.S. with 160 alumni. He has established a productive research infrastructure within ETH, resulting in the publication of 8 peer-reviewed original research in the past 2 years, with an additional 14 more expected by the end of 2025. His research interests are behavior change, mental illness stigma, and intervention development, while his organizational efforts focus social entrepreneurship and sustainable development. |
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Andrew Murphy, M.D., Ph.D.Dr. Andrew Murphy is a graduate of the combined M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania, completed his Ph.D. in the Complex Systems Group in the Department of Bioengineering, working with Dani Bassett, on the use of non-invasive neurostimulation for neuropsychiatric disorders.
His dissertation focused on characterizing how individual differences in functional and structural brain connections contribute to variations in behavior, publishing papers in PLoS Biology and Nature Communications. Following completion of the M.D.-Ph.D. program, Dr. Murphy began the psychiatric residency program at Columbia University as a Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience. In this program he received numerous awards, including NIMH Outstanding Resident Award, the Laughlin Fellowship of The American College of Psychiatrists, and resident research awards from the Southern Psychiatric Association and the New York County Psychiatric Association. Now working with Dr. Dan Javitt in the Division of Experimental Therapeutics, his current research focuses on the network-level effects of TMS and leveraging these effects to improve clinical outcomes for TMS in treatment resistant depression and auditory hallucinations. |
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Miriam Muscarella, M.D.Dr. Miriam Muscarella is a second-year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Stanford University. Originally from Kentucky, she completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard College in Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality. After graduation, she completed a public service fellowship for children and families impacted by differences of sex development (DSD)/intersex traits. She also served in varied roles US and international research, advocacy, and support to improve care for individuals with DSD/intersex traits while co-creating a comprehensive puberty and psychoeducational site for teens (dsdteens.org).
Dr. Muscarella completed her M.D. at University of California, San Francisco. She then completed her psychiatry residency at Stanford University, where she served as a Chief Resident. At Stanford, Dr. Muscarella has also worked in Stanford Children’s DSD Clinic and with individuals in the LGBTQI+ community, as well as on national and international networks to improve care and support for patients and families. |
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Parvaneh K. Nouri, M.D. M.P.H.Dr. Parvaneh K. Nouri is a current forensic psychiatry fellow at the University of Colorado, where she also completed her residency training in adult psychiatry and served as Administrative Chief Resident. During her training, Dr. Nouri was awarded the APA/APAF Edwin V. Valdiserri Correctional Public Psychiatry Fellowship, 2021-2023.
Dr. Nouri was able to leverage this fellowship with her residency program to design a training experience that afforded her greater exposure to care in correctional settings. She also completed a 3-year clinical track in women’s mental health. With these two interests, she helped pilot a perinatal psychiatry clinic in her local women’s prison facility that continues to serve patients. After training, she plans to continue working at the interface of correctional care and women’s mental health through clinical work, legislative advocacy, and academic engagement. |
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Tempitope Ogundare, M.D., M.P.H.Dr. Temitope Ogundare is a fourth-year psychiatry resident, schizophrenia fellow, and chief resident at Boston Medical Center and a postgraduate fellow at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He completed his medical education at the University of Ilorin College of Health Sciences in Nigeria and earned an MPH in community assessment, program design, implementation, and evaluation with a concentration in mental health and substance use from the Boston University School of Public Health. He currently serves as a Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal, having previously held the position of Associate Editor. His numerous awards include the Egerton Luke Prize from the West African College of Physicians, the International Medical Graduate Award from the Association of American Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation Public Psychiatry Fellowship.
Dr. Ogundare developed the neuroscience curriculum for the Liberian College of Physicians and Surgeons’ psychiatry residency program and is actively involved in creating a fellowship curriculum. In addition, he teaches neuroscience topics and basic statistics and facilitates journal clubs for Liberian psychiatry residents. His professional interests encompass global mental health, medical education, public psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, and psychosis. He has published over twenty papers in high-impact journals. Additionally, he is a critically acclaimed poet, with his second poetry collection being a finalist for the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry Prize.
Upon completing his residency, he is set to begin a Public Psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University. |
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Shelby Powers, M.D., M.S.Dr. Shelby Powers is an addiction psychiatry fellow at Yale University. She earned her medical degree from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, where she also obtained a master’s in biomedical sciences studying animal models of pelvic cancer treatment. She trained in general psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center where she served as both emergency psychiatry and outpatient chief. Dr. Powers also completed the program’s psychotherapy track and was a fellow at the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas.
Dr. Powers lives in Connecticut with her husband and 3-year-old son. She enjoys gardening, Nordic Noir and watching professional cycling. |
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Juliana Zambrano, M.D., M.P.H.Dr. Juliana Zambrano is a fourth-year resident in the Mass General Hospital/ McLean Psychiatry Residency Program and Physician Scientist Training Program. She is originally from Colombia and grew up between there and the United States. Dr. Zambrano attended medical school at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
She then completed a master’s in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a postdoctoral research fellowship in cardiac psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her clinical interests include Hispanic psychiatry, depression and trauma-related disorders, and psychedelic-assisted therapies (PAT). Her research is focused on implementation science of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies for Latinx and other marginalized populations, group PAT, and PAT for psychosomatic disorders. She is a 2023-2024 SAMHSA Minority Fellow |
