Hagar Kandel, MBBCh, MSC Receives The AACAP Beatrix A. Hamburg Award for the Best New Research Poster by a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident
Washington, DC - The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is pleased to announce Hagar H.A. Kandel, MBBCh, MSC, child and adolescent psychiatrist at Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital, as the recipient of AACAP's 2025 AACAP Beatrix A. Hamburg Award for the Best New Research Poster by a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident. This award recognizes Dr. Kandel for her poster “Gender Variance in Clinically Referred Individuals With Autism: Prevalence and Identity Patterns”. The AACAP Beatrix A. Hamburg Award for the Best New Research Poster by a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident was established in 1996 through a grant from the Greenwall Foundation and the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, in honor of Beatrix A. Hamburg, MD, former president of the William T. Grant Foundation and an AACAP Life Fellow. This award honors Dr. Hamburg’s commitment to the education and development of young investigators by recognizing the best new research poster by a child and adolescent. For more information on this award, please contact communications@aacap.org.
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