Welcoming Acadia Hospital’s first four Psychiatry Residents

Date: 03/20/2024

On Friday, March 15, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), a non-profit organization that places graduating medical school students into residency training programs around the country, held its annual “Match Day” where they match students with residency programs at hospitals and universities across the nation. Candidates rank their favorite programs, and the programs in each specialty rank their favorite candidates. This is the first year that Northern Light Acadia Hospital has participated in the process as we seek to fill four opportunities in our newly launched Psychiatry Residency Program. Think of it as the NFL draft of medicine!

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural class of psychiatry Residents at Acadia Hospital:

Kelly Anne Kossen received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Sciences from Colorado State University. She will soon graduate from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia with her medical degree.  Kelly’s work over the past two years with The Trevor Project, a 24/7 crisis service focused on suicide prevention in LBGTQ+ youth, exemplifies her passion for service.
Adrielle Grace Massey earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree with a concentration on Human Biology from the University of Montana. This spring she will graduate from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington with her medical degree. As part of her medical training, Adrielle was also engaged in the Indian Health Pathway, a certificate program providing educational opportunities and experiences in American Indian/Alaska Native Health.
Emily Rose Schiller received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Michigan prior to obtaining a Master of Arts in a postbaccalaureate premedical program at Mount Holyoke College. She went on to attend Rutgers’ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey. Emily has an impressive world/community health perspective built on a post-college internship in Liberia, as well as presentation on women’s health in rural Malawi for the National Institutes of Health Academy on Health Disparities.
Karen Jit Singh is a local resident of Hampden, Maine. She completed premedical training at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Following that, she attended the Medical University of the Americas (St. Kitts and Nevis.) Karen is currently finishing a transitional year of Internal Medicine at the Merit Health Wesley Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She has been involved in research activities at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center including work on the opioid epidemic.

On the first day accepting applicants this past fall, Acadia Hospital had nearly 500 people apply for one of its four residency openings. Ultimately, 95 candidates were interviewed by our faculty and then ranked for the NRMP match process.

Northern Light Acadia Hospital’s Psychiatry Residency Program was created to help alleviate the dwindling number of psychiatrists currently practicing in the State of Maine. From 2020 to 2022, the number of licensed psychiatrists practicing in Maine dropped by nearly half, from 110 to 50, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Residents begin their journey with Acadia Hospital on June 17. To learn more about the program, visit northernlighthealth.org/PsychiatryResidency