Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Dr. Jessica Chaffkin completed psychiatry residency at Yale University.  She received her medical degree at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2017, where she received the Betty Ford Institute SIMS Scholar Award, the NAACP Service Award, and the Lena Landegger Service Award and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.  During residency, Dr. Chaffkin received the Ira Levine Award, which is awarded to a PGY-2 psychiatry resident who embodies the qualities of clinical excellence, breadth of learning, and devotion to the care of severe psychiatric illness.  Dr. Chaffkin was also selected as an APA/APAF Leadership Fellow, was elected as the co-president of the Psychiatry Residents’ Association (PRA), and was a program-wide Chief Resident at Yale, providing supervision to junior residents, while also spearheading the creation of a novel, virtually based child and adolescent curriculum.