Ruth Fox Scholarship
Ruth Fox Scholarship Recipients
ASAM strives to increase the opportunities for residents to learn about the diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders
Overview
The Ruth Fox Memorial Endowment Fund will fund a limited number of scholarships for selected physicians-in-training to participate in the Society’s Annual Conference. Recipients receive a complimentary three-year membership. Scholars receive exclusive discounts on live and online ASAM courses and published texts.
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2023 Ruth Fox Scholarship Recipients

Saeed Ahmed, MD

Tricia Bautista, MD

Meaghan Coyne, MD

Amanda Donald, MD

Chinelo Emeka-Nwonovo, MD

Michael Hsu, MD

Sidra Khan, MD

Karri Weisenthal, MD

Loretta O. Akpala, MD

John Bingham, MD

Ari Cuperfain, MD

Hamed Ekhtiari, MD

Umer Farooq, MD

Fazeelah Ibrahim, MD

Henry Onyeaka, MD

Kevin Xu, MD

Fiona Axelsson, MD

Diana Chen, MD

Shraddha Damaraju, MD

Farrah El-Khatib, MD

Abhishek Gupta, MD

Rayyan Kamal, MD

Gabriela Reed, MD
Past Recipients
2022 (Virtual)
Daniel Ageze, MD
Karen Antwiler
MDMichael Argenyi
MDCecily Barber, MD
Paul Christine, MD
Norris Curl, MD
Mallory Davis, MD
Daniel Hernandez, MD
Ilana Hull, MD
Clare Landefeld, MD
Katrina Nickels, MD
Ogorchukwu
Faith Omede, MD
Jarratt Pytell, MD
Kara Ryan, MD
Andrea Silva, MD
Kento Sonoda, MD
Leslie Suen, MD
Francesco Tani, MD
2021 (Virtual)
Elizabeth Abbs, MD
Brigid Adviento, MD
Danielle Anderson, MD
Gayatri Bhatia, MD
Raheel Chaudhry, MD
Nicholas Chien, MD
Daniel Ignell, MD
Joseph Ikekwere, MPH
Preethy Kathiresan, MD
James Latronica, DO
Tamonud Modak, MD
Nathaniel Morris, MD
Masaru Nishiaoki, MD
Alex Rahimi, MD
Hallie Rozansky, MD
Diana Samberg, MD
Omar Shah, MD
Kristine Stolarski, MD
Brendan Sullivan, MD
Warren Yamashita, MD
Morgan Younkin, MD
Megan Yu, MD
2020 (Virtual)
Annes Bahji, MD
Talha Baloch, MD
Ori-Michael Benhamou, MD
Nicholaus Christian, MD
Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD
Ruchi Fitzgerald, MD
Martha J. Ignaszewski, MD
David Kispert, MD
Nathaniel Lepp, MD
Ximena A. Levander, MD
Sarah Leyde, MD
Michelle Lough, MD
Dexter Louie, MD
Tamara Martinez, MD
Nicky Mehtani, MD
Christopher Rienas, MD
William Riccardelli, MD
Mira Upadhyaya, MD
Jonathan Watson, MD
Stephanie Weiss, MD
2019 (Orlando, FL)
Michael Baca-Atlas, MD
Benjamin Bearnot, MD
Brandon Bentzley, MD
Brandon Buchheit, MD
Rachel Caspar, MD
Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH
Jose Feliberti, MD
Kalvin Foo, MD
Susan Franchuk, MD
David Goodman, MD
Miriam Harris, MD
Jeoffrey Hill, MD
Alexander Pappas, MD
Arpit Parmar, MD
Daniela Rakocevic, MD
David Serota, MD
Takeo Toyoshima, MD
Aaron Wolfgang, MD
2018 (San Diego, CA)
Paxton Bach, MSc, MD
Saurabh B. Bhardwaj, MD
Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH, MSPH, MS
Nicholas Chadi, MD
Nitin Chopra, MD
Natassia Gaznick, MD, PhD
Sahib S. Gill, MD
Simeon Kimmel, MD
Glenna Martin, MD
Shawn McNeil, MD
Kenneth Morford, MD
Ashanda Powell, MD
Payel Roy, MD
Robert Rymowicz, DO
Ryan B. Schmidt , MD
Hannah Snyder, MD
2017 (New Orleans, LA)
Javier Ballester Gonzalez, MD
Kathleen Broad, MD
David Crabtree, MD
John Dagget, Jr., PhD
Kimberly Heaslip, BHSc, MDS, CCFP
Maria Juliana Orejaren, MD, MSC, PhD
Matthew P. Prekupec, MD
Igor Shusterman, MD
Joshua
St. Louis, MD, MPH
Cornel Stanciu, MD
Henry Swoboda, MD
Jaspreet Thiara, MD, MBA
Ying Wang, MD, PhD
Hanjing Wu, MD, PhD
Fang Yang, MD, PhD
2016 (Baltimore, MD)
Curtis Bone, MD
Hector Colon-Rivera, MD
Huiqiong (Joan) Deng, MD, PhD
Tanuja Gandhi, MBBS
Anandam Hilde, MD, MPH
Julia Hunter, MD, MPH
Ryan Jackman, MD
SueAnn Kim, MD
David Marcovitz, MD
Jordan Mills, DO, PhD