Shixie Jiang, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, has been selected to receive a 2024 Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) Chair’s Choice Travel Fellowship Award for the 2024 Annual SOBP Meeting.
Selection criteria for the award includes past excellence in scholarly work, potential for scholarly growth in biological psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, and overall excellence. As a SOBP Travel Award recipient, Dr. Jiang will be matched with a mentor and will participate in the society’s Early Career Investigator Program throughout the 2024 meeting. He will present on his work examining the use of portable diffuse optical tomography for mapping cerebral hemodynamics and functional dysconnectivity in delirium at the annual meeting held May 9-11, 2024, in Austin, Texas. Dr. Jiang will receive a stipend to defray meeting expenses.