Current PRITE Fellows
The PRITE® Fellowship Selection Committee chooses PRITE® Fellows to serve at least one year on the PRITE® Editorial Board. Applications for fellowships are received from PGY II and III general psychiatry residents and first year child fellows in residency programs throughout the United States and Canada.
PRITE® Fellows participate in the question writing process by developing an assigned number of questions and then editing and referencing exam items. Appointments to the PRITE® Editorial Board may be renewed for one year upon the approval of the PRITE® Editor-in-Chief.
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2025 Senior PRITE Fellow Hilary Pang, M.D.MSc University of Toront0  |
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| 2025 PRITE and CHILD PRITE Fellows | |
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CHILD PRITE Fellow: Ari Gao, M.D. Baylor College of Medicine  |
Dr. Ari Gao is a third-year general psychiatry resident at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed undergraduate studies in Biology and Creative Writing at Washington University in St. Louis, before moving to Houston for medical school and residency at Baylor. As a resident, he has been involved in medical education at multiple levels, including UME didactics about psychotherapy, curriculum development on social determinants of health, as well as giving didactics on mood disorders to other specialties. His professional interests include child psychiatry, women’s mental health, and consult-liaison psychiatry, where his research interest is in medical causes of psychosis. Outside of work, he enjoys woodworking, fragrance collecting, and working on his goal of traveling to 20 countries by age 30. |
| Dr. Heather Rie Miura is a second-generation Asian-American born in Okinawa, Japan and raised in Honolulu, HI. She is in her first year of child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at University of California, San Diego. She completed an honors thesis in cultural and emotion psychology at Wesleyan University and returned to the islands to attend medical school and general psychiatry residency at University of Hawaii. The psychosocial determinants of health facing her patients nurtured her mission to serve Native Hawaiian families disproportionately impacted by mental health inequity, addiction, and houselessness. Participation in APA's MindGames and medical education as a resident problem-based learning tutor for preclinical medical students also fueled her desire for lifelong learning. Her future career goals include completion of child psychoanalytic training and becoming Program Director for her home CAP Fellowship to continue sharing her passion for psychodynamic psychotherapy and mentor the next generation of psychiatrists serving Hawaii. |
CHILD PRITE Fellow: Heather Miura, M.D. University of Hawaii  |
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PRITE Fellow: Zane Davis, M.D. San Mateo County Psychiatry Residency  |
Dr. Zane Adam Davis is a second-year psychiatry resident at San Mateo County Health in California. Born and raised in Alaska, he began his career as a harm reduction educator in Anchorage, coordinating a syringe exchange program and providing direct services to individuals who use IV drugs. He attended medical school at the University of Washington, where he completed his clinical training in rural Alaskan communities through the Alaska WWAMI program. During medical school, he founded an HIV testing clinic in a multi-state, service-learning partnership between the University of Washington, the University of Alaska, and the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association. He also contributed to academic curriculum committees and developed educational initiatives focused on health disparities. Currently, Dr. Davis is undergoing additional training in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. His professional interests include forensic psychiatry, queer and transgender mental health, and public psychiatry. |
| Dr. Megan Lee is a third-year psychiatry resident at the University of Washington. She is from Memphis, TN, and went to Vanderbilt for undergrad, where she studied biology and art history. She then went to Yale for medical school, where she developed an interest in treating co-occuring disorders, with a focus on patient-centered care. Within psychiatry, she is interested in psychiatric research, addiction treatment, minority mental health, medical education, and integrated care. She is also interested in therapy, currently working on a two-year program with Seattle's Psychoanalytic Institute as well as the University of Washington's DBT seminar. In her free time, she enjoys jigsaw puzzles, hiking, playing with her cats, and watercolor and acrylic painting. |
PRITE Fellow: Megan Lee, M.D. University of Washington  |
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2026 PRITE and CHILD PRITE Fellows |
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CHILD PRITE Fellow: Erick Del Pozo, D.O. Texas Tech University HSC – El Paso  |
Dr. Erick Del Pozo is a first-year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellow at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from the University of Texas at El Paso and practiced as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for five years before attending medical school at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State University. Throughout his training, Dr. Del Pozo has been actively involved in both medical and nursing education. His professional interests include border health, mood disorders, and interventional psychiatry. Outside of fellowship, he enjoys spending time with his family, skateboarding, and playing board games. |
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Kathleen P. Heslin, MD is a fourth-year psychiatry resident at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Raised on Long Island, she studied biology, philosophy, and English at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, where she completed an honors thesis focused on a zebrafish model for depression, and then moved to Syracuse for medical school and residency. As a resident, she has pursued research related to ADHD, SARS-CoV-2, suicidality and associated risk factors, and medical student education. As chief resident and program education officer, she has focused on medical student and resident education, clerkship rotation development, PRITE preparation, and teaching. Her professional interests include child/adolescent and adult psychiatry, consult liaison, psychotherapy, and neuropsychiatry. Outside work, she enjoys reading, creative writing, language study, embroidery, classical flute/piano, theatre, dance, golf, and light hiking. |
CHILD PRITE Fellow: Kathleen Heslin, M.D. SUNY Upstate |
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PRITE Fellow: Gary Iacobucci, M.D., Ph.D. University at Buffalo  |
Dr Gary Iacobucci MD PhD is a third-year resident at the University at Buffalo (UB) in Buffalo, NY. He completed his PhD in Biochemistry at UB studying NMDA receptor biophysical properties using single-molecule electrophysiology prior to attending medical school at Jacobs School of Medicine at UB. Dr Iacobucci is aiming to build upon his expertise in molecular neuroscience to probe underlying neurobiology of transdiagnostic phenotypes in psychosis and mood disorders. His current research utilizes machine learning approach to identify unique decision-making patterns in contingency-shifting behavioral tasks and assess whether specific behavioral patterns predict specific medication treatment outcomes in patients with anxiety and depressive disorders. His professional interests include emergency psychiatry, consultation-liaison, clinical research, and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Outside of residency and research, he spends his time hiking or studying piano. |
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Dr. Maribel Patiño is a PGY-2 psychiatry resident on the research track at UC San Diego. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and a first-generation college graduate. She earned her BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley and completed her MD/PhD training through the Medical Scientist Training Program at UC San Diego. She conducted her graduate work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies under the mentorship of Dr. Edward Callaway. During her graduate training she developed Single Transcriptome Assisted Rabies Tracing (START), a neurotechnology that combines viral tracing with single-cell transcriptomics to study neural circuits with improved granularity. Dr. Patiño is the co-founder of Colors of the Brain, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to increasing diversity in the brain sciences. She is excited to combine her training in psychiatry and neuroscience to explore the biological underpinnings of psychiatric disorders. Outside of work, she enjoys anime, weightlifting, and spending time with cats. |
PRITE Fellow: Maribel Patino, M.D., Ph.D. UC San Diego  |
