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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2026 Senior PRITE Fellow Megan Lee, M.D. University of Washington  |
Dr. Megan Lee is a new attending at the University of Washington in Seattle. 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. Within psychiatry, she is interested in psychiatric research, addiction treatment, minority mental health, medical education, and integrated care. She is also interested in therapy and completed 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 pottery, knitting, jigsaw puzzles, hiking, playing with her cats, and watercolor and acrylic painting. |
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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-3 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  |
