On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 the Psychiatry Department of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center proved itself to be at the forefront of scientific research. Psychiatry Residents and Fellows in Training Programs throughout Queens participated in the third annual "Best Scientific Paper Contest."
The "Best Scientific Paper by a Resident" contest was the brain child of MediSys’ own Dr. Seeth Vivek, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and past President of the Queens County Psychiatric Society of the Queens District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association. In 2005, Dr. Vivek envisioned a contest that would celebrate the research of Psychiatry Residents and Fellows.
Jamaica Hospital's Dr. Munibur Khan and Dr. Sachidanand Peteru were both winners in this year’s contest. Dr. Khan came in first place out of a field of 18 contestants for his research paper entitled “Insulin Resistance in Patients with Schizophrenia of Different Ethnic Backgrounds Treated with Antipsychotics”. Dr. Peteru's poster about diabetic intervention studies also came in first place in the poster portion of the contest. Both residents proudly represented the Department of Psychiatry and demonstrated that Jamaica Hospital is at the head of the class in research.
