January 2024
Dear Friends:
I'm hoping that 2024 has started off well! I am excited and pleased to share with you that our Department of Psychiatry is ranked 7th in NIH grant awards for Federal Fiscal Year 2023, our highest ranking ever! This represents the second time in the past four years that we have been in the top 10. Congratulations and thank you to all of our faculty, their teams, and our department’s grants management colleagues whose efforts resulted in us achieving this result. I am so thrilled to start out the new year with this exciting news!
Last October, U-M neuroscientist Huda Akil, Ph.D., won the nation’s highest scientific honor, the National Medal of Science, for her discoveries about the roots of emotions, depression, pain and addiction in brain biology. Dr. Akil’s scientific contributions have had an immense impact on humankind’s understanding of these important research areas and her team’s discoveries laid the groundwork for many other scientists’ work to this day. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Akil on this marvelous achievement!
I am delighted about another great success for our department, spearheaded by Dr. Donovan Maust: fueled by new funding expected to total $81 million from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, his team will work to improve understanding of the health care workforce that cares for people with dementia, through surveys and other methods that will produce data for clinicians, researchers, policymakers and others to use. The National Dementia Workforce Study will survey those who work in homes, hospitals, clinics, assisted living facilities and nursing homes, yielding data to improve care and inform policy.
We have much to be proud of here in the Department of Psychiatry – and we are looking forward to the new year with optimism and vigor.
Colleagues and alumni, as you likely know, voting will soon begin for the U.S. News & World Report 'Best Hospitals' rankings. We view our rankings as one form among many of the recognition of the great care, valuable research, and educational achievements that Michigan Psychiatry alumni, faculty, and staff provide. For patients and students (and for our colleagues), these rankings can be highly influential. Eligible physicians will be able to vote through Doximity very soon. Please keep Michigan Psychiatry in mind when you are polled. Thank you for voting; we appreciate your continued support!
Sincerely,
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