Graduate Training: Social and Personality Psychology, Texas A&M University

Dissertation: The Role of Attentional Bias, Counterfactual Thinking, and Protective Behavioral Strategies in Vape Users

Undergraduate: Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston

Interests: Counterfactual thinking, nicotine and tobacco use, motivation and goals, decision-making, intervention development

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIDA, T32DA16184 (Cassidy)

Graduate Training: Clinical Psychology, University of New Mexico

Clinical Residency: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Dissertation: Being “In Sync” With Others During Early Alcohol and Opioid Recovery: The Role of Positivity Resonance on Recovery Outcomes and Social Determinants of Health

Undergraduate: Suffolk University

Interests: Psychosocial factors that promote recovery from substance use disorders, with a focus on resilience, social connectedness, digital health interventions, reducing health disparities.

 Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIGMS, P20 GM130414 (Monti)

 Mentor: Mollie Monnig, Ph.D.

Graduate Training: Clinical Science in Child and Adolescent Psychology, Florida International University

Clinical Residency: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Dissertation: Identifying drug and alcohol displays on social media using a machine learning approach, and mechanisms that impact adolescent substance use (NIH-NIDA F31 Awardee)

Undergraduate: Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH

Interests: Identifying modifiable risk and protective factors of substance use initiation and escalation among adolescents to inform the development of prevention and intervention programs; online (e.g., social media) and offline (e.g., parents, peers) social contexts; tailoring assessments for adolescent alcohol and drug use)

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIAAA, T32 AA07459 (Miranda & Monti)

Graduate Training: Clinical Psychology, University of Central Florida

Clinical Residency: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Dissertation: The Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Alcohol Use Behaviors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Among Hispanic/Latinx Drinkers 

Undergraduate: University of South Florida

Interests: Alcohol Use, Hispanic/Latinx, Discrimination, Sociocultural factors, EMA, Emotion Regulation, Health Behaviors

 Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIAAA, T32 AA07459 (Treloar Padovano)

Graduate Training: Clinical Psychology, Syracuse University

Clinical Residency: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Dissertation: Multiracial Discrimination Scale: Development and Psychometric Validation of its Associations with Alcohol Misuse among Multiracial Young Adults (NIH-NIAAA F31 Awardee)

Undergraduate: Baylor University

Interests: Alcohol/substance misuse across youth development and the interplay with sleep disturbances; tailoring interventions for alcohol misuse among adolescents and young adults

Fellowship Sponsor:  NIH-NIAAA, T32AA007459 (Miranda & Monti)

Graduate Training: Clinical Psychology, University of Rhode Island

Clinical Residency: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Dissertation: Race and sex assigned at birth as moderators of harm reduction pharmacy behavioral treatment outcomes for alcohol use disorder among people experiencing homelessness (NIH-NIAAA F31 Awardee)

Undergraduate: University of Washington, Seattle

Interests: Harm reduction and trauma-informed treatment approaches for substance related health inequities and for individuals from systematically excluded and minoritized backgrounds; cultural factors underlying substance use and co-morbid traumatic stress.

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIAAA, T32 AA07459 (Miranda & Monti)

Dissertation: Exploring Daily-Level Associations Between Protective Behavioral Strategies, Alcohol Use, and Consequences: The Role of Context and Social Determinants of Health within Adolescents and Young Adults

Undergraduate: University of Alabama

Interests: Leverage ecological momentary assessment methods to explore the etiology and consequences of young adult substance use, with an emphasis on identifying cognitive and contextual risk and protective factors to inform the development of prevention and intervention programs. 

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIDA, T32 5T32DA016184 (Merrill)

Graduate Training: School Psychology, Syracuse University

Dissertation Title: Effects of a brief group-based compassion intervention on physiological and subjective stress reactivity

Undergraduate: Michigan Technological University

Interests: Developing and testing compassion-based interventions for co-occurring posttraumatic stress symptoms and substance use among sexual and gender minority people; Understanding physiological (e.g., stress reactivity) and psychological (e.g., shame) mechanisms by which compassion-based interventions are effective

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIDA, T32DA16184

Graduate Training: Clinical Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington

Clinical Residency: Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Dissertation: Decisional processes in daily drinking: a daily diary study exploring how realworld incentives are related to drinking behaviors and experiences

Undergraduate: University of Kentucky

Interests: Exploring the etiology and consequences of alcohol and cannabis use across diverse adult populations using ecological momentary assessment as well as integrating wearable sensors and laboratory methods as complementary approaches. Expanding interests also include a focus on the perinatal population, particularly exploring cannabis use and associated maternal outcomes.

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIDA, T32DA16184 (Tidey & Rohsenow)

Graduate Training: Clinical Psychological Sciences, Purdue University

Clinical Residency: VA Boston Healthcare System

Dissertation: The development, feasibility, and acceptability of an ecological momentary intervention to prevent sexual violence revictimization

Undergraduate: Union College

Interests: Alcohol use, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, risk behavior, prevention, digital interventions

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIAAA, T32AA07459 (Miranda & Monti)

Graduate Training: Clinical Psychology, University of Rhode Island

Clinical Residency: VA Boston Medical Healthcare System

Dissertation: A qualitative exploration of alcohol and other drug use among multiracial young adults (NIH-NIDA F31 Awardee)

Undergraduate: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Interests: Health disparities related to substance use, the role of minority stress in marginalized racial and ethnic populations’ substance use, positive psychology and resilience-based interventions, and mobile interventions.

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIAAA, T32 AA07459 (Miranda & Monti)

Graduate Training: Counseling Psychology, University of Oregon

Residency: Clinical Psychology Internship Training at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 

Dissertation Title: Post-Substance Use Treatment Trajectories of Adolescent Substance use Disorders: Examining the Moderating Roles of Mental Health and Social Support

Undergraduate: University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Substance use interventions and treatment for adolescents and young adults, variability in mental health treatment effects, post-treatment supports and maintenance, and research synthesis methods. 

Fellowship Sponsor: NIH-NIAAA, T32 AA07459 (Magill & Miranda)