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Antoine Douaihy, MD Presented with Donald Fraley Award in Recognition for Outstanding Medical Student Mentoring

Please join us in congratulating Antoine Douaihy, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, on his receipt of the Donald Fraley Award for Medical Student Mentoring.

Named in honor of the late Donald S. Fraley, MD, alumnus of the School of Medicine and past chair of the Curriculum Committee, the award recognizes individuals for their outstanding contribution to medical education through their service as mentors to medical students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 

Dr. Douaihy is a dedicated clinician-educator who has also been active in research focusing on addiction, co-occurring disorders, and HIV.  He is the Associate Director of the Residency Training Program and Director of Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC).  Dr. Douaihy also serves as the Medical Director of Addiction Medicine Services at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC and the Co-Director of Tobacco Treatment Service at UPMC Presbyterian and Montefiore Hospital.   

For over a decade, Dr. Douaihy has been actively involved in teaching and mentoring medical students, psychiatry residents and postdoctoral trainees.   In addition to the Donald Fraley Award, Dr. Douaihy is the recipient of numerous other teaching awards throughout his career including the Golden Apple Teaching Award, the Clerkship Preceptor of the Year presented by the School of Medicine, the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, and the Charles Watson Teaching Award.  Dr. Douaihy was also inducted into the School of Medicine?s Academy of Master Educators in 2009.