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2024 Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2024 Recipients
The ABCT Awards and Recognition Committee, chaired by Anne M. Donnelly, Ph.D., is pleased to announce the 2024 award recipients.
Career/Lifetime Achievement
Arthur M. Nezu, Ph.D., DHL, ABPP
Distinguished University Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Professor of Medicine, & Professor of Public Health, Drexel University
Outstanding Mentor
Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D.
ABPP, Founder, Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Clinical Director, Youth Anxiety Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital
Outstanding Researcher
Michael W. Otto, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy at Boston University
The Sobell Innovative Addictions Research Award
Mark A. Prince, Ph.D.
Director of My Mental Health (MMH) Data Analysis and Dissemination, Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy
Donna E.M. Bailey
Chief Executive Officer, Community Behavioral Health Philadelphia
Natalie L. Dallard, M.A.
Director, Evidence-Based Practice and Innovation Center
Francis C. Sumner Excellence Award
Praise Iyiewuare, MPH, Ph.D.
Lyman T. Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kentucky
Anne Marie Albano Early Career Award for Excellence in the Integration of Science and Practice
Daisy Singla, Ph.D.
Center for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto
Outstanding Service to ABCT
The ABCT Staff:
- David Teisler, Deputy Director, Operations and Publications
- Stephen Crane, Senior Director, Education and Meeting Services
- Kelli Long, Senior Director, Finances and HR
- Stephanie Schwartz, Managing Production Editor
- Tonya Childers, Manager, Convention and Concierge Services
- Rachel Lamb, Membership Services Manager
- Emily Ravaioli, Marketing and Communications Manager
- Rachel Greeman, Web Manager
- Maryilyn Brown, Administrative Specialist
Virginia Roswell Student Dissertation Award
Ms. Olga Revzina, M.A.
The Catholic University of America
Leonard Krasner Student Dissertation Award
Jenna Sung, M.A., Doctoral Candidate
Stony Brook University and Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
John R.Z. Abela Student Dissertation Award
Ms. Azure Reid-Russell, M.A.
Harvard University
The President’s New Researcher Award
Awarded by the President’s New Researcher Committee
Laurel Sarfan, Ph.D.
Assistant Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
Student Research Grant
Emily Bibby, M.A.
Stony Brook University
Student Research Grant — Honorable Mention
Kendall Poovey, M.A.
University of South Florida
2024 Champions
Daniel Cheron, Ph.D., ABPP
The Baker Center for Children and Families/Harvard Medical School
Carrie Comeau, LCSW
Community Care Behavioral Health
John C. Lestino, M.A., LPC
Edgewater Park School District, Edgewater Park, NJ
Gino Priolo, Ed.D.
Haddonfield School District
Natalia Torres
Theodore Roosevelt High School, Chicago, IL
Kayla Turner, M.S., Ed.S.
Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District
Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Winners
Min Eun (Michelle) Jeon M.A., M.S.
Florida State University
Kelli Lahman L.S.S.P., N.C.S.P.
University of Houston
Emily Mueller, M.A.
Bowling Green State University
Student Travel Award
Rachel McDonald, M.P.S., M.A.
Autism and Neurodevelopment Lab, Montclair State University
Mariel Emrich, B.S.
University of Connecticut
ADAA Student Career Travel Award
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Mark Shuquan Chen, Ph.D.
Yale University
Juliana Petersen, Ph.D.
Montefiore Medical Center
Spotlight on Mentors
Mark Shuquan Chen, Ph.D.
Yale University
Michelle Elizabeth Roley-Roberts, Ph.D.
West Virginia University
Maria Angela Kalantzis, M.A.
Bowling Green State University
Clarissa Ong, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
Fellows Class of 2024
Adrian Aguilera, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Lori Eickleberry, Ph.D., ABPP
Institute for Life Renovation
Hiroaki Harai, M.D., IFAPA
Harai Consulting & Training Inc.
2024 ABCT Youth Community Leader Award
Colin Benjamin Deibler
Moorestown High School
Jackson Erdos
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Anita FardSanei
Garnet Valley High School
Sylvain Farrel
Horace Howard Furness High School
Maia Sevin
Friends’ Central School
Mary Jane Eimer Student Convention Scholarship
- William Booker, Psy.D. student, PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium
- Sadie Calvano, undergraduate student, University of California Los Angeles
- Claire Chapman, master’s student, University of Denver
- Uravshi Dixit, Ph.D. student, University of South Alabama
- Lia Follet, Ph.D. student, University of Georgia
- Kimi Hashimoto, Ph.D. student / Psychology Resident, Seattle Pacific University / Palo Alto VA
- Mary Jensen, Ph.D. student, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Alexandria Klingman, master’s student, University of South Carolina, Aiken
- Yazmin Meza Lazaro, Ph.D. student, University of California, Los Angeles
- Angel Lee, Post baccalaureate project coordinator, DePaul University
- Emma Ilyaz, Ph.D. student, Queen’s University
- Monet Meyer, Ph.D. student, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Tori Moore, Ph.D. student, University of Memphis
- Ellen Murphy, Psy.D. student, Georgia Southern University
- Kellyann Navarre, Post-Graduate Trainee / Research Assistant, Cleveland State University
- Jesus Hernandez Ortiz, Ph.D. student, George Mason University
- Jenny Shen, Ph.D. student, Stony Brook University, UCLA Semel Institute
- Colin Tidwell, Ph.D. candidate, The University of Arizona
- Ingrid Tien, Ph.D. student, University of California, Los Angeles
- Lucy Wetherall, Ph.D. student, The University of Wyoming