KTGF Leadership

KTGF Co-President

Alaina Holm is a 4th year medical student at OHSU. She grew up in Manzanita, OR and studied psychology at Oregon State University. Alaina is applying to psychiatry residency programs this year and hopes to later continue her training with a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. Her goals are to one day provide comprehensive psychiatric care to youth in a small community similar to the one she grew up in, where access to mental health care was limited. In her free time, she enjoys playing piano, reading and listening to audiobooks, trying new restaurants with friends, and spending quality time with her partner and their two kittens.  

KTGF Co-President

Maya Singh Sharkey (she/her - Co-President) is a 4th year medical student at OHSU. She is originally from Benicia, CA and studied neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. Maya is applying into psychiatry residency this year with the aim of pursuing a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. She is passionate about health care accessibility for indigenous populations as well as LGBTQ health. Outside of medicine, she enjoys reading, exploring Portland, and spending quality time with her partner and their cat.  

KTGF Mentorship Lead

Nicole Anyanwu is a 3rd year medical student at OHSU. She is originally from Dallas, Texas, and studied Molecular Environmental Biology at UC Berkeley, where she was recognized as a Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar as well as a National Coca-Cola Scholar. Nicole is passionate about psychiatry, with particular interests in global health and policy, social determinants of health, and preventative care. Her research experience includes work at the intersection of health, technology, and user design, with a focus on cultural psychiatry, social isolation and mental health, environmental and occupational health, and advancing health equity. Outside of medicine, she enjoys community building, traveling and exploring new cultures, music, innovative design, and spending time with friends and family.

KTGF Education Lead

Alex is a 3rd year medical student at Oregon Health & Science University as part of the MD/MPH dual-degree program. He is from Dayton, Ohio and studied neuroscience and philosophy at The Ohio State University. Prior to medical school, he worked with a non-profit organization supporting survivors of human trafficking and as a public health investigator. Within the field of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, he is particularly interested in childhood experiences and lived environmental factors that propagate or mitigate the risk of psychiatric disease and morbidity. He plans to utilize psychodynamic psychotherapy as well as interventional psychiatry in his future practice. For leisure, he enjoys all things active — biking, running, hiking, skiing — exploring the local coffee scene, and hosting a monthly film club. 

KTGF Education Lead

Noa is a second-year medical student at Oregon Health & Science University and the Education Lead for KTGF. She is passionate about building spaces for academic discussion, mentorship, and interdisciplinary collaboration within the team.

She plans to pursue a career in pediatric psychiatry with a focus on neurodevelopmental disorders, integrating research into her work throughout her career. Before medical school, she earned an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where she studied risk factors of neurodevelopment in infants in The Gambia through the BRIGHT (Brain Imaging for Global Health) Project.

She hopes to introduce students to the many facets of psychiatry, highlighting its diverse populations, specialties, and approaches, and aims to advance exploration, diverse perspectives, and collaboration within the KTGF community. 

KTGF Service Lead

Henry is a third-year medical student at OHSU. Originally from Boston, Henry came to medical school after a prior career in education and restorative justice. Henry worked with adolescents as a high school teacher, wilderness youth corps crew leader, and in directing a program ensuring alternatives to the juvenile justice system. Outside of medicine, Henry likes to spend time outdoors (hiking, biking, and especially anything involving water), play his drums, and read bad fantasy novels.

KTGF Service Lead

Kylie Koney (she/her) is a 2nd year medical student at OHSU and is co-service lead for KTGF. She is from Seattle, WA and earned her B.A. in Biology with a minor in Psychology from The University of Portland. Kylie is interested in a career in psychiatry, with a focus on child/adolescent psych and addiction medicine. She is passionate about advocating for increased education and resources for mental health care, along with expanding suicide prevention programing across the healthcare & school systems.

Kylie is grateful for the opportunity to connect with local communities and her other KTGF fellows as a member of the leadership team. Outside of school, she enjoys hiking/walking local trails, reading, and finding time to bake something sweet.  

KTGF Advocacy Lead

OHSU KTGF Program Director

About Dr. Bos: I am the child psychiatry consultant to Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and to child welfare leaders in the Oregon Department of Human Services. I am also the child psychiatrist at a local day treatment program and the course director for the child psychiatry seminar for OHSU adult psychiatry residents. I serve as the Academic Leadership representative on the Executive Committee of the Oregon Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Interests: Community psychiatry and healthcare systems, early adversity and trauma, child welfare, quality improvement, medical education and mentorship, women in medicine

Contact: bosk@ohsu.edu

OHSU KTGF Assistant Program Director

About Dr. España: I am an inpatient child and adolescent psychiatrist at Unity Center for Behavioral Health, Associate Program Director for the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at OHSU, and a forensic adult and child psychiatrist in the community.

Interests: system-involved youth (justice-involved youth, foster care), trauma, health equity, forensics, minority and community mental health, crisis response and intervention, diversity in medicine

OHSU KTGF Assistant Program Director

About Dr. Racicot: I work as a child and adolescent psychiatrist on the OHSU-Doernbecher inpatient and emergency department Consult Liaison service, at the Doernbecher Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Bridge Clinic, and as Associate Program Director of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at OHSU.

Interests: crisis and emergency psychiatry, dreaming about revolutionizing systems of care, early childhood development and parenting practices, Native youth and families, community outreach and advocacy, sarcasm, teaching and mentorship

OHSU KTGF Assistant Program Director

About Dr. Taylor:  I am the child psychiatrist who supervises the bridge clinic and the medical director at LifeworksNW, which is a large community mental health agency that provides mental health and addiction services across the lifespan. 

Interests: whole person health and integrated care, lifestyle medicine, community mental health, lifespan psychiatry, health equity, serious and persistent mental illness and community-based services 

OHSU KTGF Assistant Program Director

About Dr. Usher: I am an outpatient child and adolescent psychiatrist (CAP) and the Director of the OHSU CAP Fellowship Training Program. I am also the Medical Education Director for the Early Assessment & Support Alliance Center for Excellence (EASAc4e), an OHSU/PSU School of Public Health initiative that provides training on coordinated specialty care for first-episode psychosis. As the DW Winnicott Professor of Child Psychiatry Education, I am interested in the humanities and psychiatric pedagogy, previously serving as an editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Book Forum and now on the editorial board of Academic Psychiatry. I would love to support Klingenstein fellows interested in research and writing projects.

Interests: First-episode psychosis, personality disorders, psychoanalytic theory and its applications to contemporary child and adolescent psychiatry practice, strengths-based practice and cultural humility, things that aren’t “therapy" that are therapeutic: what psychiatrists can learn from teachers, caregivers, coaches, hairdressers, and others who are empathic listeners and helpers and what they might learn from psychiatrists