Yale Department of Psychiatry

Congratulations to our 18 newly matched residents! We are thrilled to welcome you to New Haven.
https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/news-article/yale-psychiatry-announces-2026-residency-match-class/

Join the Yale Center for the Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids for its monthly webinar tomorrow, Tuesday, January 27, at 3:00 pm. Featuring Dr. Mohini Ranganathan of the Yale Department of Psychiatry and Yale School of Medicine. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/33e8fwrn

TOMORROW, Tuesday, Oct. 28: Join us for our final Instagram Takeover of 2025, following Abiba Salahou, MD, third-year resident in the Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Salahou was born in New York City and grew up in Syracuse, but her family is from Nigeria and Cote D'Ivoire in West Africa. She often accompanied her grandmother to her medical appointments while growing up and translated for her.

“Seeing the discrepancies in the care that my grandma received alone versus when I translated is one of the things that originally got me interested in healthcare disparities and working with immigrant patient populations,” Dr. Salahou said. “As a Muslim, West African, second-generation American, I have been able to witness the consequences of mental health stigma, at various intersections, firsthand. I am passionate about restorative justice for underserved communities and de-stigmatizing mental illness amongst immigrant and minoritized patient populations. I am also very interested in child and adolescent psychiatry, school based mental health, and childhood traumas.”

Yale was Dr. Salahou’s first choice for residency, and she was drawn to Yale Psychiatry in part because of the program's strong emphasis on leadership, health equity, and individualized educational experiences, as well as the leadership and personal development opportunities available to trainees.

During her takeover, Dr. Salahou will provide a look at the longitudinal PGY3 outpatient psychiatry experience.

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TOMORROW, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025: Join Maggie Moskal, psychology fellow in the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology, as she showcases a day in her life.
The Psychology Section within the Yale Department of Psychiatry offers one of the nation's premier internships in clinical and community psychology. Fourteen students are accepted annually to this program, which has been continuously accredited by the American Psychological Association since 1970. Psychology Fellows apply to one of nine training rotations based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) and Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH). Students typically complete this clinically-oriented internship as the final year of a five-year program of graduate study, which leads to a PhD or PsyD.
Maggie is originally from Florida where she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Florida. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology at the University of South Carolina.
“I identify as biracial. I was raised Filipina and Polish, two pretty different cultures," Maggie says. "Growing up, we never really talked about mental health. As I learned more about my identities, I also learned more about the mental health care system and the lack of culturally responsive care for historically underrepresented communities, especially young people. As a future leader in the field, I want to do better for my communities, I want to create more supports with and for them. That’s why I’m here at Yale – the focus on community and lived experience in research and practice is critical.”
Maggie’s interests include teaching and mentoring undergrads and youth participatory action research (YPAR). She is passionate about developing and evaluating culturally responsive prevention programming with and for young people.
During her takeover, followers will see Maggie working at The Consultation Center (TCC) and a project site, New Haven Adult Education Center. She will also attend the psychological fellows' seminar. You may also get a chance to meet her cat Boba!

TOMORROW, Tuesday, Oct. 14: Join Marsha Akoto, psychology fellow in the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology, through a day in her life.

The Psychology Section within the Yale Department of Psychiatry offers one of the nation's premier internships in clinical and community psychology. Over 15 students are accepted annually to this program, which has been continuously accredited by the American Psychological Association since 1970. Psychology Fellows apply to one of nine training rotations based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) and Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH). Students typically complete this clinically-oriented internship as the final year of a five-year program of graduate study, which leads to a PhD or PsyD.

Marsha is a Ghanaian-American and proud daughter of immigrants. She is originally from Columbus, Ohio and earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from The Ohio State University (Go Bucks!) and her master’s degree in clinical and counseling psychology from William Paterson University. She is currently a fifth-year counseling psychology PhD student at Lehigh University.

Marsha has always been passionate about helping people, and her experience growing up in a community and culture where mental health awareness is limited and often stigmatized, she committed to pursuing psychology as a career path.

“I majored in psychology in college while working at a psychiatric hospital, an experience that exposed me to the complex realities of mental illness and became the catalyst for my commitment to reducing mental health disparities and serving underserved communities. Yale’s emphasis on recovery, community-based healing, comprehensive care, and compassion for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) is what ultimately drew me to the program”

On Tuesday, Marsha will take followers along to see a snapshot of her personal life, clinical work, grand rounds, didactics, and more.

Questions for Marsha? Send us a DM, leave a comment, or head to our Stories.

TOMORROW, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025: Tune in for the first Yale Psychiatry trainee-led Instagram takeover of the year, following Aanchal Shah, MD, first-year resident in the Department of Psychiatry, as she takes us through a day in her life.

Dr. Aanchal Shah is a first-generation American and a proud daughter of immigrants. She is from Florida and earned her bachelor's degree in psychology as well as a certification in dance in medicine from the University of Florida.

Dr. Shah was drawn to psychiatry because it enables a holistic approach to patient care and has the potential to improve functional outcomes through its integration of biological, psychological, and social dimensions of health. Her passion for child and adolescent psychiatry was inspired by her role as an older sister. She is also interested in transitional-age youth, reproductive psychiatry, interventional psychiatry, psychotherapy, and the connection between the arts and mental health.

"I chose to train at Yale because of the wide variety of clinical opportunities as well as the warm and supportive culture of the program," she said.

During her takeover, followers will learn more about Dr. Shah's experience on her Addiction Psychiatry rotation, including what her day looks like both inside and outside the hospital.

Have questions for Dr. Shah? Comment below, send us a DM, or head to our Stories - we'll make sure she gets them!

A team from the Yale Department of Psychiatry recently visited rural Uganda as part of the Global Health Experiential Fellowship (GHEF), an initiative organized by Empower Through Health. The visit aimed to explore and understand stigma related to mental health. The team included Robert Rosenheck, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and co-director of Empower Through Health; Yang Jae Lee, MD, psychiatry resident and chair and executive director of Empower Through Health; and Salih Cayir, MD, postdoctoral research fellow in psychiatry.

Yale Psychiatrists Visit Rural Uganda to Address Mental Health Stigma A team from the Yale Department of Psychiatry recently visited rural Uganda as part of the Global Health Experiential Fellowship (GHEF), an initiative organized

A new clinical trial launched by scientists at Yale School of Medicine and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) may offer hope to people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who suffer from depression. Yale researchers Drs. Sophie Holmes and Gerard Sanacora have partnered with Drs. Ellen Bradley and Josh Woolley from UCSF to conduct a groundbreaking two-site clinical trial investigating psilocybin, a psychedelic compound, as a potential treatment for depression in PD.

New Clinical Trial Aims to Treat Depression in People with Parkinson’s Disease A new clinical trial launched by scientists at Yale School of Medicine and University of California San Francisco may offer hope to people with Parkinson’s

The Yale Department of Psychiatry and the Yale Mood Disorders Research Program stand with the International Society for Bipolar Disorders in encouraging awareness of bipolar disorder today and every day.

THE PERCH announces an open call for submissions for its new issue, SOCIAL, to be published in September 2025.

The PERCH is a creative arts journal with mental health themes focused on original voices. It is produced and published by the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health.
https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/prch/news-article/perch-announces-call-for-submissions/