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ABPN Grant Awards Programs

The ABPN has established the following grant award programs to support projects involving innovations in education, or education research, related to the ABPN mission. The foci include enhancing residency and fellowship training, and promoting professional development across the career span.

Additional Information

Deadlines

  • Faculty Innovation in Education Award and ABPN Dorthea Juul, PhD, Education Research Award: The submission deadline for 2028-2029 awards is July 9, 2027, at 11:59 p.m. Central Time.
  • Advancing Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) in Residency Training: Applications are due July 30, 2027, at 11:59 p.m., Central Time.

News about the Programs

ABPN Announces 2027-28 Award Recipients
The 2027-28 recipients of the ABPN Faculty Innovation in Education Award are:

Carolyn A. Broudy, MD
Department of Psychiatry
Tufts Medical Center
A Focus on Prevention: Developing a Curriculum on Postpartum Depression Prevention  for Psychiatry Residents.

Daniel M. Goldenholz, MD, PhD, FAES
Department of Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
NeuroBalanceBot: A Scalable Simulation and Learning-Analytics Platform for High-Value  Neurologic Care Across the Career Span.

Matthew Macaluso, DO
Department of Psychiatry
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
A Competency-Based Curriculum for Standardized Clinical Skills Verification in Psychiatry: An Immersive, Transportable Educational Model with Faculty-Guided Assessment.

Rachel Mehendale, MD
Department of Neurology
University of Chicago
CONNECT: Curriculum ON Neurologic care, Equity, and Community Training – An  Asynchronous Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Curriculum for Neurology Residents.

The 2027-28 recipients of the ABPN Education Research Award are:

Megan E. Bone, MD 
Department of Neurology
Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.
An Online Module Based Curriculum to Boost Pediatric and Child Neurology  Resident Learning in Developmental Disabilities.

Katherine A. Fu, MD
Department of Neurology
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Defining Continuing Medical Education (CME)-Eligible AI Co-Pilot Use Across the Neurology Training Continuum.

John Q. Young, MD, PhD and Abigail Konopasky, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Northwell Health
From Ambient Listening to Actionable Feedback: Developing and Validating an AI-Generated Competency-Based Assessment Tool for Psychiatry Residency Trainees.

For additional information contact David Shin, PhD.

October 2026