Current PRITE Fellows
The PRITE® Fellowship Selection Committee chooses PRITE® Fellows to serve at least one year on the PRITE® Editorial Board. Applications for fellowships are received from PGY II and III general psychiatry residents and first year child fellows in residency programs throughout the United States and Canada.
PRITE® Fellows participate in the question writing process by developing an assigned number of questions and then editing and referencing exam items. Appointments to the PRITE® Editorial Board may be renewed for one year upon the approval of the PRITE® Editor-in-Chief.
2024 Senior PRITE Fellow:
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Captain Rachel H. Han, M.D. NYU Langone  |
Welcome Message from Dr. Han: Congratulations and a warm welcome to each of you! It is an honor to have you join our community. Over the next two years, I am eager for all that you will experience as a PRITE Fellow and look forward to supporting your journey in psychiatry.
First, I want to emphasize the significance of being selected as a PRITE Fellow. You were the sole resident nominated by your program and are now among the top residents in the nation. This prestigious opportunity will allow you to learn from and meet with leading experts in psychiatry, and make a meaningful impact on the future of our field. The question-writing process, from drafting to editing to selecting items, requires individual motivation but is also highly collaborative. You will work closely with the PRITE Editorial Board throughout the year and engage with leaders in the field through The American College of Psychiatrists, especially at the annual meetings. There will be additional opportunities to get involved with The College and to present if interested.
My experiences as a PRITE Fellow have been incredibly rewarding and unique within my medical education and training. I have especially appreciated connecting with other motivated educators, researchers, and trainees from diverse backgrounds. I hope you will find your journey as a PRITE Fellow to be similarly meaningful.
Again, congratulations, and I look forward to working together! |
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CHILD PRITE Fellow: Ari Gao, M.D. Baylor College of Medicine  |
Dr. Ari Gao is a third-year general psychiatry resident at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed undergraduate studies in Biology and Creative Writing at Washington University in St. Louis, before moving to Houston for medical school and residency at Baylor. As a resident, he has been involved in medical education at multiple levels, including UME didactics about psychotherapy, curriculum development on social determinants of health, as well as giving didactics on mood disorders to other specialties. His professional interests include child psychiatry, women’s mental health, and consult-liaison psychiatry, where his research interest is in medical causes of psychosis. Outside of work, he enjoys woodworking, fragrance collecting, and working on his goal of traveling to 20 countries by age 30. |
| Dr. Heather Rie Miura is a second-generation Asian-American born in Okinawa, Japan and raised in Honolulu, HI. She is in her first year of child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at University of California, San Diego. She completed an honors thesis in cultural and emotion psychology at Wesleyan University and returned to the islands to attend medical school and general psychiatry residency at University of Hawaii. The psychosocial determinants of health facing her patients nurtured her mission to serve Native Hawaiian families disproportionately impacted by mental health inequity, addiction, and houselessness. Participation in APA's MindGames and medical education as a resident problem-based learning tutor for preclinical medical students also fueled her desire for lifelong learning. Her future career goals include completion of child psychoanalytic training and becoming Program Director for her home CAP Fellowship to continue sharing her passion for psychodynamic psychotherapy and mentor the next generation of psychiatrists serving Hawaii. |
CHILD PRITE Fellow: Heather Miura, M.D. University of Hawaii  |
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PRITE Fellow: Zane Davis, M.D. San Mateo County Psychiatry Residency  |
Dr. Zane Adam Davis is a second-year psychiatry resident at San Mateo County Health in California. Born and raised in Alaska, he began his career as a harm reduction educator in Anchorage, coordinating a syringe exchange program and providing direct services to individuals who use IV drugs. He attended medical school at the University of Washington, where he completed his clinical training in rural Alaskan communities through the Alaska WWAMI program. During medical school, he founded an HIV testing clinic in a multi-state, service-learning partnership between the University of Washington, the University of Alaska, and the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association. He also contributed to academic curriculum committees and developed educational initiatives focused on health disparities. Currently, Dr. Davis is undergoing additional training in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. His professional interests include forensic psychiatry, queer and transgender mental health, and public psychiatry. |
| Dr. Megan Lee is a third-year psychiatry resident at the University of Washington. She is from Memphis, TN, and went to Vanderbilt for undergrad, where she studied biology and art history. She then went to Yale for medical school, where she developed an interest in treating co-occuring disorders, with a focus on patient-centered care. Within psychiatry, she is interested in psychiatric research, addiction treatment, minority mental health, medical education, and integrated care. She is also interested in therapy, currently working on a two-year program with Seattle's Psychoanalytic Institute as well as the University of Washington's DBT seminar. In her free time, she enjoys jigsaw puzzles, hiking, playing with her cats, and watercolor and acrylic painting. |
PRITE Fellow: Megan Lee, M.D. University of Washington  |
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2024 PRITE and CHILD PRITE Fellows |
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CHILD PRITE Fellow: Chetan Bhat, M.D. University of California - San Diego  |
Dr. Chetan Bhat is a first year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at University of California, San Diego. He completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University before returning to his home town for residency at Loma Linda University. He is also currently completing a master's degree in medical education for health professionals through Johns Hopkins University. Within these programs, he has actively been involved in education at multiple levels including formal lectures and curriculum development at the medical student and resident level alongside teaching allied health professions including students in physician assistant, physical therapy, and nurse practitioner training. Professionally, his interests include medical education, integration of mental health with primary care, consult-liaison, and use of media within psychiatry. In his free time, he enjoys Brazilian jiu jitsu, playing fantasy sports, stand-up comedy, and board games. |
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Dr. Liana Lau is a first-year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Mount Sinai Elmhurst Hospital. She completed her general psychiatry residency at Metropolitan Hospital, undergraduate training at Duke University, a Master's in Human Nutrition at Columbia University, and medical school at New York Medical College. She completed a thesis on Haitian ethnopsychiatry at Duke and a thesis on pediatric obesity screening at Columbia. After college, she worked with Children's Nutrition Program in Haiti and One Love Foundation, a non-profit raising awareness on relationship violence. Her clinical interests include global health, particularly in Haiti, collaborative care in primary care settings and schools, minority mental health, psychotherapy, and ADHD. Outside of psychiatry, she enjoys spending time with her cats, playing strategic board games, baking macarons, and hosting dinner parties. |
CHILD PRITE Fellow: Liana Lau, M.D. New York Medical College  |
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PRITE Fellow: Chad Donahue, M.D., Ph.D. UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital  |
Dr. Chad Donahue is a third-year general adult psychiatry resident at University of Pittsburgh Western Psychiatric Hospital. He originally trained as an electrical engineer, completing his BS at UMass Amherst and MS at Northeastern University, and worked for several years in the Boston area as a radar engineer while also working part-time as a teaching fellow in the Harvard University Physics Department. He later attended Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program, where he completed his medical degree and a PhD in biomedical engineering. His thesis work, primarily completed in the Department of Neuroscience, focused on elucidating the evolution of cognitive circuits in the primate brain across macaques, chimpanzees, and humans using advanced imaging techniques. At Western Psychiatric Hospital, he is actively involved in medical student education, including an initiative highlighting the intersection of psychiatry and neuroscience. His clinical interests include psychosis and neuroimaging. Outside of work, he enjoys stand-up comedy and video games. |
| Dr. Hilary Pang is third-year psychiatry resident in the Clinician Scientist Program at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. She obtained her B.Sc. (Hons) in Pathobiology and M.D. at the University of Toronto, where she also concurrently completed her M.Sc. at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation during medical school. She is passionate about medical education and enjoys working with learners, such as having co-founded a national conference for interdisciplinary health professions students as well as designed and taught courses for medical students. Her career interests include artificial intelligence in medical education and examination, health systems, and interventional and sleep psychiatry. Outside of residency, she enjoys spending time in nature, reading, and baking pies. |
PRITE Fellow: Hilary Pang, M.D., MSc University of Toronto  |
