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Celebrating the Way forward for CAMH: ACAMH Awards 2024 Shortlist


It’s our pleasure to announce the shortlist of nominees for the 2024 ACAMH Awards.

Congratulations to all nominees for making it on the longlist. To be nominated for an ACAMH Award is a prestigious recognition of those that are on the forefront of the development of kid and adolescent psychological well being analysis and apply.

The usual of this 12 months’s nominations was very good and will probably be narrowed right down to a shortlist by a panel of specialists within the subject of kid and adolescent psychological well being.

The Awards will probably be offered at a digital ceremony in November 2024 which is open to the general public. You’ll be able to register to attend for FREE by way of the ACAMH web site.

Congratulations to all of the 2024 nominees.

Educator Award 

David Cottrell ‘Training of CAMH Professionals’

Nomination standards: Somebody who has had a big impression upon the training or coaching of kid and adolescent psychological well being professionals. That is open to all disciplines, however training or coaching should relate to kids’s psychological well being.

Congratulations to:

  • Dr. Seonaid Anderson, Neuro-diverse.org
  • Dr. Niki Cooper, Place2Be
  • Dr. Georgia Pavlopoulou, Anna Freud Centre and College Faculty London
  • Dr. Jodie Rawlings and Dr. Vanessa Puetz, Anna Freud Centre and College Faculty London
  • Dr. Meinou Simmons, Oxford Well being NHS Basis Belief

Digital Innovation Awards

Analysis on Digital Influence

Nomination standards: A researcher who has revealed the most effective paper on an data/knowledge/IT/digital subject regarding little one and adolescent psychological well being, which might embrace on-line evaluation improvements.

Congratulations to:

  • Professor Amit Baumel, College of Haifa
  • Dr. Stephane de Brito, College of Birmingham
  • Dr. Yasser Saeed Khan, Hamad Medical Company, Doha, Qatar
  • Dr. Richard Lamb, College of Georgia
  • Dr. Felipe Siston, College of Brasília

Digital Intervention

Nomination standards: A clinician who has put proof base into apply throughout the data/knowledge/IT/digital fields of kid and adolescent psychological well being. This could possibly be the usage of data or applied sciences within the supply of care or service design and many others.

Congratulations to:

  • Dr. Nicholas Fabiano, College of Ottawa, Division of Psychiatry
  • Dr. Deanna Francis, Black Canine Institute
  • Dr. Thomas Gargot, College Hospital of Excursions
  • Dr. Debbie Plant, SLaM
  • Dr. Hannah Wilson, Kooth Digital Well being

Analysis Into Observe

Eric Taylor ‘Translational Analysis Into Observe’

Nomination standards: A person with a sustained contribution to translating analysis into apply over numerous years, whose work entails each analysis, and both scientific or academic involvement in apply. And/or a researcher or clinician who has revealed translational science (proof base into apply) with proof of impression on scientific service provision. This might contain the institution of recent interventions, or enchancment of present ones, with proof of impression on scientific service provision.

Congratulations to:

  • Professor Boris Birmaher, College of Pittsburgh Faculty of Medication, Division of Psychiatry
  • Dr. Shelley Gilbert, GRIEF DOCTOR
  • Professor Dr. Julian Koenig, College of Cologne
  • Dr. Trilby Langton, NHS and Non-public Observe
  • Professor Dennis Ougrin, Queen Mary’s College London
  • Professor Dr. Christina Stadler, College Psychiatric Clinics Basel

Rising Star Award

Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award

Nomination standards: Please notice that this award can’t be self nominated. Open to any one that has made a big scientific contribution to little one and adolescent psychological well being literature, inside 10 years of their first peer reviewed journal publication.

Congratulations to:

  • Dr. Alessio Bellato, College of Southampton, UK
  • Dr. Isabell Brikell, Division of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Dr. Josefien Breedvelt, King’s Faculty London
  • Dr. Alex Kwong, College of Edinburgh
  • Dr. Giorgia Michelini, Queen Mary, College of London
  • Dr. Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo, Division of Baby and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s Faculty London

Trainee Awards 

Postgraduate Analysis Trainee of the Yr

Nomination standards: Trainee or scholar who’s lower than two years publish PhD who has proven initiative or made a big contribution to little one and adolescent psychological well being.

Congratulations to:

  • Dr. Jules Dugré, College of Birmingham
  • Dr. Lucinda Grummitt, The College of Sydney
  • Dr. Tyler McFayden, College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Ms Scarlett Smout, The Matilda Centre for Analysis in Psychological Well being and Substance Use, The College of Sydney
  • Dr. Alice Wickersham, CAMHS Digital Lab, King’s Faculty London

Analysis Trainee of the Yr

Nomination standards: Open to any particular person endeavor postgraduate coaching as a practitioner working with kids in relation to psychological well being from any background (e.g. scientific psychology, academic psychology, little one and adolescent psychiatry). This might embrace candidates presently in a scientific coaching working in the direction of knowledgeable qualification, or instructing, for instance, a person endeavor an MEd who is ready to show a transparent dedication to evidence-based scientific apply.

Congratulations to:

  • Dr. Victor Pereira-Sanchez, Columbia College
  • Dr. Asilay Seker, King’s Faculty London and South London & Maudsley NHS Basis Belief
  • Mrs Delshad Shroff, Virginia Tech
  • Mrs Jenna Sung, Harvard Medical Faculty/Massachusetts Normal Hospital
  • Dr. Eibhlin Walsh, Nationwide Suicide Analysis Basis

Scientific Trainee of the Yr

Nomination standards: Open to a person endeavor their first qualification as a practitioner working with kids in relation to psychological well being from any background (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational remedy, physio) and dealing in the direction of a scientific qualification and who demonstrates a transparent dedication to proof primarily based scientific apply.

Congratulations to:

  • Miss Emelia Pasternak-Albert, King’s Faculty London GKT Faculty of Medical Training/College of Cambridge
  • Miss Denisse Zepeda, U-TTEC Lab on the College of Utah

Staff Awards

Lionel Hersov Memorial Award

Nomination standards: A apply staff that has demonstrated the usage of proof base (analysis, audit or service analysis) into scientific apply. Or a staff that has evaluated the result or measures both the scientific impression or demonstrated high quality enchancment (could be efficiencies of time, cash or decreased ‘waste’). The nominations will probably be accepted from researchers, investigators, clinicians, and educationalists.

Congratulations to:

  • Youngsters and Younger Individuals’s Major Care Psychological Well being Service, South Tyneside and Sunderland Basis Belief
  • Hampshire CAMHS Consuming Dysfunction Staff (SHFT), Southern Well being NHS Basis Belief
  • Subsequent Step Playing cards Staff, Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Basis Belief
  • St. Mary’s Ukrainian Faculty Trauma Restoration Staff, St Mary’s Ukrainian Faculty
  • The Lucena Clinic Hub staff, Lucena Clinic CAMHS Hub

Revolutionary Analysis, Coaching or Observe in Low and Center Revenue International locations (LMICs)

Nomination standards: Staff primarily based in a rustic categorized by the World Financial institution as LMICs* within the previous 12 months, and whose work contain analysis, scientific or academic actions in that nation. The work reveals innovation in analysis, coaching, or apply/service supply in little one and adolescent psychological well being.

Congratulations to:

  • Division of Baby and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India
  • The Adolescent Psychological Well being Unit (AMHU), Nationwide Psychological Hospital, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
  • The Asido Basis, Asido Basis, Nigeria
  • Mr Yadeta Alemayehu Workneh, Mattu College

* Eligible international locations; Afghanistan, Angola, Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Financial institution and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Greatest Paper Award

Baby and Adolescent Psychological Well being Journal

The Baby and Adolescent Psychological Well being (CAMH) journal finest paper award is chosen by the editors of the CAMH journal. Papers are eligible if they’ve been revealed within the journal in 2022. The successful and shortlisted authentic articles are chosen primarily based on a spread of standards together with scope, relevance and research design.

Congratulations to:

  • Unique Article ‘Digital self-harm and suicidality amongst adolescents’, (Vol. 28, Iss. 1). Justin W. Patchin, Sameer Hinduja, Ryan C. Meldrum
  • Open Entry ‘Evaluation: Meta-analysis on mindfulness-based interventions for adolescents’ stress, despair, and anxiousness at school settings: a cautionary story’, (Vol. 28, Iss. 2). Nilija Fulambarkar, Brian Web optimization, Alanna Testerman, Mitchell Rees, Kim Bausback, Eduardo Bunge
  • Open Entry ‘Evaluation: Which parts of behavioral dad or mum and instructor coaching work for kids with ADHD? – a metaregression evaluation on little one behavioral outcomes’, (Vol. 28, Iss. 2). Rianne Hornstra, Annabeth P. Groenman, Saskia van der Oord, Marjolein Luman, Tycho J. Dekkers, Lianne van der Veen-Mulders, Pieter J. Hoekstra, Barbara J. van den Hoofdakker

Journal of Baby Psychology and Psychiatry

The Journal of Baby Psychology and Psychiatry finest paper award is chosen by the editors of the JCPP. Papers are eligible if they’ve been revealed within the journal in 2022. The successful and shortlisted authentic articles are chosen primarily based on a spread of standards together with scope, relevance and research design.

Congratulations to:

  • Open Entry ‘One session therapy (OST) is equal to multi-session cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT) in kids with particular phobias (ASPECT): outcomes from a nationwide non-inferiority randomized managed trial’, (Vol. 64, Iss. 1). Barry Wright, Lucy Tindall, Alexander J. Scott, Ellen Lee, Cindy Cooper, Katie Biggs, Penny Bee, Han-I Wang, Lina Gega, Emily Hayward, Kiera Solaiman, M. Daybreak Teare, Thompson Davis, Jon Wilson, Karina Lovell, Dean McMillan, Amy Barr, Hannah Edwards, Jennifer Lomas, Chris Turtle, Steve Parrott, Catarina Teige, Tim Chater, Rebecca Hargate, Shezhad Ali, Sarah Parkinson, Simon Gilbody, David Marshall
  • Open Entry ‘Phenomenology of gender dysphoria in autism: a multiperspective qualitative evaluation’, (Vol. 64, Iss. 2). Kate Cooper, William Mandy, Catherine Butler, Ailsa Russell
  • Open Entry ‘Sleep influences each day suicidal ideation by way of affective reactivity to interpersonal occasions amongst high-risk adolescents and younger adults’, (Vol. 64, Iss. 1). Jessica L. Hamilton, Aliona Tsypes, Jamie Zelazny, Craig J.R. Sewall, Noelle Rode, John Merranko, David A. Brent, Tina R. Goldstein, Peter L. Franzen
  • Unique Article ‘Tonic and phasic irritability in 6-year-old kids: differential correlates and outcomes’, (Vol. 64, Iss. 2). Jamilah Silver, Daniel M. Mackin, Sara J. Bufferd, Lea R. Dougherty, Brandon L. Goldstein, Gabrielle A. Carlson, Daniel N. Klein

JCPP Advances

The JCPP Advances finest paper award is chosen by the editors of the JCPP Advances. Papers are eligible if they’ve been revealed within the journal in 2022. The successful and shortlisted authentic articles are chosen primarily based on a spread of standards together with scope, relevance and research design.

Congratulations to:

  • Open Entry ‘IQ trajectories in autistic kids by way of preadolescence’, (Vol. 3, Iss. 1). Marjorie Solomon, An-Chuen (Billy) Cho, Ana-Maria Iosif, Brianna Heath, Apurv Srivastav, Christine Wu Nordahl, Emilio Ferrer, David Amaral
  • Open Entry ‘Sleep parameters and issues in adolescents with and with out ADHD: A scientific overview and meta-analysis’, (Vol. 3, Iss. 3). Finja Marten, Lena Keuppens, Dieter Baeyens, Bianca E. Boyer, Marina Danckaerts, Samuele Cortese, Saskia Van der Oord
  • Open Entry ‘Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties related to persistent speech dysfunction in kids: A potential inhabitants research’ (Vol. 3, Iss. 1). Yvonne Wren, Emma Pagnamenta, Religion Orchard, Tim J. Peters, Alan Emond, Kate Northstone, Laura Louise Miller, Susan Roulstone
  • Open Entry ‘The everyday and atypical growth of empathy: How massive is the hole from lab to subject?’, (Vol. 3, Iss. 1). Chiara Bulgarelli, Emily J. H. Jones