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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