How to Apply

Please complete the following:

  • General Information
  • CV
  • A one-page summary of your proposed project
  • A one-paragraph Candidacy Statement describing your personal views of the APS, its future, and suggestions to foster this program

After selections have been made, the selected candidates will be asked to submit a more comprehensive proposal of the project they wish to discuss with their mentor, and the proposal will be reviewed by the mentors and other recipients of the travel award.

The American Psychosomatic Society (APS) is pleased to accept applications for the Diversity Initiative travel award program. The purpose of this program is to bring together the expertise of senior underrepresented minority mentors with between 4 to 6 postgraduate trainees from underrepresented minority groups, as defined by the NIH to be African-Americans, Hispanics, Native-Americans and Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders.

The program will take place beginning on Wednesday, March 23 at 8 am in Long Beach, CA, in conjunction with the 2022 APS Annual Meeting. The goal of the program is to contribute to the academic success of each participant and each attendee will have the opportunity to present his/her proposed project in order to receive productive feedback.

This award is competitively renewable in 2023 for participants who are new to the program in 2022.

The Award:

  • Complimentary registration to a workshop on March 23, 2022
  • Mentoring and advice on their current or planned research
  • Complimentary meeting registration
  • Complimentary ticket to the APS Evening Social Event
  • $500 travel stipend

Award Winners

2022

  • Jason Ashe, MA, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
  • Karina Barragan, BS, California State University, Northridge
  • Kennedy Blevins, MA, University of California, Irvine
  • Sumaiya DeLane, BA, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
  • Melissa Flores, PhD, The University of Arizona
  • Luz Garcini, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • Angelina Majeno, MPH, University of California Irvine

2020

  • Andrea Duran, PhD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
  • Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Melissa Flores, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
  • Nicholas Joseph, MA, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Stephanie Cook, DrPH, New York University, New York, NY, USA

2019

  • Jason Ashe, Master of Theology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Windsor Mill, MD, USA
  • Briana Brownlow, MA, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Victor Ekuta, BA Biology, PNP, Washington University in St. Louis, Audubon, PA, USA
  • Gina Gerardo, MA, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Marcia Tan, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
  • DeWayne Williams, PhD, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

2018

  • Kristen Brown, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Brina Brownlow, BA, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

2017

  • Eduardo Alsina, BA, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Andrew Case, PhD, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
  • Diana Chirinos Medina, PhD, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
  • Nikko Da Paz, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, Los Banos, CA, USA
  • Effua Sosoo, BA Psychology, UNC Chapel Hill, Carrboro, NC, USA
  • Grace Thornburgh, BA, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA
  • Natasha Williams, EdD, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

2016

  • Amanda Acevedo, BA, University of California Irvine
  • Zahra Claybrone, BS, University of Calgary
  • Nicole Feeling, MA, Ohio State University
  • Monica Gaudier-Diaz, BS, Ohio State University
  • Gina Gerardo, BS, Ohio State University
  • Adriana Maldonado, BA, California State University San Marcos
  • Angela Monge, PhD, St. John's University
  • Brittany Polanka, BS, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
  • Jeffrey Proulx, PhD, Oregon Health & Sciences University
  • Isabel Ramos, BA, University of California, Los Angeles

2015

  • Tomas Cabeza de Baca, PhD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Karina Corona, BA, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
  • Natasha Garcia, BA, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
  • Nicholas Joseph, Associates of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Risa Long, MA, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Miriam Van Dyke, BS, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

2014

  • Antione Taylor, BA, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Brian Gonzalez, PhD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Tampa, FL, USA
  • Claudia Toledo-Corral, PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Dixie Hu, MA, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Ellen-ge Denton, PsyD, CUNY College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY, USA
  • Ian Boggero, MS, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
  • Jeremy Grove, BA, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
  • Marissa Alert, AB, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
  • Shannon Jewell, BS, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
  • Yvette Szabo, BS, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

2013

  • Livia Carvalho, PhD, University College London, London, United Kingdom
  • Wilson Figueroa, BA, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
  • Olga Herren, BA, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
  • Arlene Ramos, BA, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
  • DeWayne Williams, BA, Ohio State University, Athens, OH, USA

2012

  • Wendy Barrington, MPH, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Faren Grant, BA, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Nataria Joseph, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Patricia Moreno, BA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Tracie Rivera, MD, West University, Morgantown, WV, USA
  • Loni Slade, MA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Ana Trueba, MA, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA

2011

  • Robin Haddad, MPH, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
  • Dorothy Octavia Jackson, MA, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
  • Shellie-Anne Levy-Massey, MS, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
  • Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, BSc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Rodlescia Sneed, MPH, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2010

  • Denise Cooper, PhD, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
  • Melissa Guaderrama, BA, Penn State, University Park, PA, USA
  • Sherlyn Jimenez, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
  • Erica Williams, MA, National Institutes of Health/ National Cancer Institutes, Bethesda, MD, USA

2009

  • Karla Espinosa, BA, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
  • Ryan Felipe Estevez, MD, MPH, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
  • Denise C. Jarrin, MA, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, Harvard, Boston, MA, USA
  • Regina Sims, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
  • Michael Stanton, BA, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

2008

  • Frank Bandiera, MPH, University of Miami, Miami, Fl, USA
  • Danielle Beatty, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Sharon Batista, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
  • Noel Burns, BA, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Charles Jonassaint, MA, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
  • Catherine Mills, MA, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA
  • Shakira Suglia, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
  • Kamala Thomas, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Chante Wellington, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

2007

  • Mehret Birru, BA, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  • LaBarron Hill, BA, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
  • Linda Marc, ScD, MPH, MS, Cornell University, New York, USA
  • Maria Rueda-Lara, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Centre, New York, USA
  • Renee Walker, DrPH, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA