From left: Murad Khan, MD; Annie Hart, MD; Psychiatry Innovation Lab judge Debbie Profit, PhD; Isobel Rosenthal, MD, MBA; and Jordyn Feingold, MAPP, MD/MSCR candidate. Credit: David Hathcox
A group of medical students and residents from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently won the $10,000 grand prize at the Psychiatry Innovation Lab competition, which was held at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco. At the competition, contestants pitch their ideas to create products or services that promise to transform mental health care.
Annie Hart, MD; Isobel Rosenthal, MD, MBA; Jordyn Feingold, MAPP, MD/MSCR candidate; and Murad Khan, MD, received the grand prize for developing Medimmunity, an online platform that helps medical students and residents survive the stress of medical training.
The project is based on Mount Sinai’s PEERS program, which uses small group sessions to provide medical school students and residents with skills for managing personal and academic challenges. The sessions are held twice a year and are led by a psychiatry resident and a senior medical student who are paired with students during their four years of medical school.
Drs. Hart and Rosenthal and Ms. Feingold are currently at Mount Sinai. Dr. Khan is now a psychiatry resident at the Yale School of Medicine.