Ariel Bettridge Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario

• Overseeing all aspects of research study visits, including screening participants, obtaining informed consent, completing participant and parent interviews and processing biological samples
• Reliably conducting diagnostic clinical interviews (e.g. KSADS, SCID, C-SSRS, SIPS, YMRS) with adolescents, young adults and their families, as well as neurocognitive assessments (e.g. WASI, WRAT, MATRICS)
• Completing legal services submissions, research ethics board applications, and Health Canada amendments and notifications
• Taking an active role in the training, management and supervision of research assistants, as well as screening resumes and conducting interviews for new RA hires
• Designing and maintaining study databases using Microsoft Access and REDCap, and quickly and reliably entering study data into these databases in an organized manner

Toronto, Canada Area

• Courses: Principles of Psychology, The Study of Personality
• Led weekly tutorial sessions to reinforce concepts taught in class
• Worked with other teaching assistants and professors to develop reliable grading schemes for midterm and final exams
• Marked assignments and exams and held office hours to discuss exam grades with students

Toronto, Canada Area

• Trained and supervised research assistants in ethical lab protocols, standardized diagnostic clinical interviews, and recruitment and data entry procedures
• Assisted with preparing and submitting literature reviews, budget outlines, ethics applications and grant proposals

Toronto, Canada Area

• Oversaw recruitment and compensation of participants, data collection and entry, and overall organization of a longitudinal study with community participants
• Communicated regularly with principal investigator regarding study status

Toronto, Canada Area

• Assisted with data collection and analysis and conducted standardized diagnostic clinical interviews with children and adolescents and their parents
• Completed an independent study project involving analyzing data collected in the lab and preparing both a written and oral report of the results

• Performed data entry and literature reviews, edited manuscripts, and conducted phone screenings with perspective research study participants with mood and anxiety disorders

Clinical Research Graduate Certificate Program

Master'S Degree, Social Psychology

Activities and Societies: Social-Personality Brownbag, Evolutionary Psychology Journal ClubMaster's Thesis: The Objective/Subjective.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology Specialist, Human Biology Major

Activities and Societies: First Year Learning Community