Research: Develop and implement grant-funded research projects targeting skills related to substance use, violence, and emotional dysregulation at a series of sites; Design, manage, and train team in research protocols for a multisite, NIH-funded, FDA efficacy randomized control trial for a digital eHealth platform designed to create a dose-response effect for perpetrators of intimate partner violence; manage and design research projects for the Forensic, Addiction, and Violence technologies laboratory at RIT; act as liason for research projects with industry partners. Practice: Develop, design, and implement a virtual mental health clinic for a local homeless shelter with over 300 sessions per academic year; provide direct supervision for doctoral interns; develop, integrate, and administer psychotherapeutic treatment and intake, personality, symptom, and neuropsychological assessments across for a patient caseload with diverse presenting needs.Academic: Design, create, and implement a full academic curriculum for brief competency training for mental health skills for medical professionals; create and teach courses for mental health skills for medical professionals; provide didactics, supervision, and training for clinical psychology doctoral interns in the RIT Behavioral Health Program; create and design presentations, grant applications, and other scholarly work on gaming and mental health (i.e., PAX East, Games for Change, Global Health Symposium - RIT Dubai Campus)

Research: Designed and implemented from literature review to research protocol projects in three ongoing areas: use of eHealth technologies in targeting externalizing behaviors in homeless populations through a systemic intervention approach, development of eHealth assessment and design protocol for therapeutic settings, and assessment of outcome data for a community clinic; supervise and facilitate projects into international peer-reviewed papers and conference presentations in an active laboratory setting. Practice: Developed, designed, and implemented treatment and training protocols for an APPIC-accredited community clinic and a homeless shelter that employees clinical psychology doctoral interns; provide direct supervision for doctoral interns; develop, integrate, and administer psychotherapeutic treatment and intake, personality, symptom, and neuropsychological assessments across for a patient caseload with diverse presenting needs.

Research: Developed and managed novel and ongoing research in virtually-administered clinical treatment projects and scholarship on treatment models for delivering smart device and eHealth treatments for externalizing behaviors in vulnerable populations (specifically: homeless and low-income adults, veterans, at-risk young adults), including leading two year-long research projects: developing and testing feasibility for a systematic and bystander telehealth-delivered intervention that targets externalizing behaviors in a residential setting; and developing and testing a virtual visual analog emotional distress scalePractice: Integrated and administered psychotherapeutic treatment and intake, personality, symptom, and neuropsychological assessments across diverse settings, including forensic competency assessment, a homeless shelter, and a community clinic. Launched and designed treatment and training for a training mental health clinic that provides free and sliding-scale therapy and assessment for the local community. (Supervisors: Cory Crane, PhD; Caroline Easton, PhD; Cassandra Berbary, PhD).

Organize and manage video game and user experience workshops, design cyberpsychology lectures and meetings, and assign tasks to an multidisciplinary design team of specialists with diverse experiences in art, writing, design, and psychology for a national presentations and publications to lay audiences

Operationalize and adapt study measures and protocols from clinical psychology constructs into interdisciplinary research protocol (e.g., IRB submissions). Contribute clinical psychology expertise to multiple university laboratories to develop understanding of and test preventative measures for externalizing behaviors, including bystander interventions for eating disorders and ehealth for externalizing behaviors (Colleagues: Tamara Del Vecchio, Ph.D.; Bill Chaplin, Ph.D.; Warren Reich, Ph.D.; Sarah Blackstone, Ph.D.)

Analyzing and writing results for approved dissertation protocol for a meta-analytic study of e-health treatments for externalizing behaviors.Designed and implemented treatment plans for long-term individual psychotherapy and assessment over four years of training in fulfillment of Ph.D. training requirements for clinical psychology. Assisted in interviewing and assessing fit for prospective doctoral candidates. Developed and executed study protocol from initial project idea to developing project code and writing manuscript submissions and revisions. Developing university protocol, consent, and training materials for individual case study; trained junior doctoral students in assessment a the peer supervisor capacity. . (Supervisors: Tara Rooney, Ph.D.; Wilson McDermut, Ph.D.; Jeffery Nevid, Ph.D.; Bret Grube, Ph.D.; Rafael Javier, Ph.D.; Alice Pope, Ph.D.)

Responsible for all aspects of design and implementation of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, a 40-student course for psychology majors. Create lecture materials (e.g., slideshows, interactive student tools), manage course materials (e.g., Blackboard software, university grade distribution software), create and score exams and papers, and provide guidance and recommendation letters for students (Department Chair: William Chaplin, Ph.D.)

Design and implement a peer supervision training within an assessment practicum for doctoral students at a community clinic. Mentor students in selection, administration, scoring, and interpretation of comprehensive psychological batteries including projective and objective personality, mental status, symptom ratings, and neuropsychology measures. Review and edit assessment report drafts (Supervisor: Bret Grube: Ph.D.)

Designed and administered long-term individual psychotherapy treatments to a diverse caseload of seventeen patients with clinical needs, including: specific phobia, trauma, domestic violence, obsessions, personality disorders, and other disorders. Selected and integrated comprehensive risk, intake, neuropsychological, and personality assessments. Created and ran outreach and preventative workshops on various topics, including: depression, homesickness, suicidality, peer intervention, and career selection (Supervisors: Christopher Browne, Ph.D.; Andrew Berger, Ph.D.)

Oversaw projects from initial program design to completion into first-author publications. Mentored graduate students in designing and implementing research projects. Created idiographically-derived variables from within-subjects output to assist in identifying self-concept predictors of well-being and risk. Represented Hunter College at international conferences. (Colleagues: Jason Young, Ph.D.; Warren Reich. Ph.D.)

Participate in a multidisciplinary treatment team serving a diverse group of high-risk patients with a range of disorders including: post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, illness anxiety disorder, depression, psychotic disorders, and other serious mental illness. Perform comprehensive intake and risk assessments, neuropsychological and personality assessments, determine diagnoses and make referrals and treatment recommendations. Co-lead skills-oriented groups and provide individual psychotherapy for patients with persistent and serious mental illness. Consult and provide feedback to clinicians on case and other professional presentations. (Supervisor: Erin King, Ph.D.)

Utilized clinical and neuropsychological assessment to design and implement brief psychotherapy treatment plans as the only psychotherapist in treatment teams of medical specialists within multiple rotations across primary and inpatient care settings (i.e., ambulatory care, obstetrics and gynecology, and physical rehabilitation). Treated patients ranging in functionality (i.e., post-stroke, inability to participate in Activities of Daily Life) across a wide variety of co-morbid diagnoses (e.g., schizoaffective and neurodegenerative disorder) and backgrounds. (Supervisors: Rafael Javier, Ph.D.; Angelo Canedo, Ph.D.).

Responsible for all aspects of design and implementation of a new externship position within a hospital-wide grant-funded initiative (Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment; DSRIP). Created a first-author chapter in an interpersonal therapy treatment manual on the topic of post-traumatic growth and narrative themes for use with patients who have experienced trauma. Designed and ran workshops training doctoral students in administration of brief interpersonal treatment for trauma. (Supervisors: Rafael Javier, Ph.D.; Angelo Canedo, Ph.D.)

Facilitated seminar sessions in an advanced research methods course for undergraduates. Graded poster presentations and exams, and mentored students in preparing submissions to national psychology conferences (Professor: Ernest Hodges. Ph.D.)

Selected and administered from a pool of objective, projective, and cognitive assessments into final, integrated batteries and formal testing reports for members of the surrounding community (Supervisor: Dr. Bret Grube, Ph.D.)

Managed all aspects of protocol design and site outreach for a study exploring associations among executive functioning, affect regulation, and intimate partner violence in young adults in committed romantic relationships. Performed computer programming for executive functioning tasks and user interface (e.g., HTML, Query strings, back-end design); designed and trained research assistants in research protocol (e.g., script, IRB submission, WASI; double-entry Excel, SPSS database and syntax); created a detailed handbook delineating all research protocols and responsibilities; created workshops on college preparation for at-risk emerging adults. (Principle Investigator: Tamara Del Vecchio, Ph.D.)

Performed crisis management, advocacy, and safety planning with a daily caseload of between 10 to 25 hotline-access patients presenting with issues related to domestic violence, human trafficking, and crime victimization. Found placement in Tri-State area domestic shelter-system for individuals and families and provided resources (e.g., directions to PATH housing system) and warm hand-offs to various agencies (e.g. Legal Aid for Human Trafficking Survivors); worked as part of a crisis team with legal and emergency services; assisted callers in contacting and reaching assistance with New York City Police Officers; coordinated as a mandated reporter between patients and protective services (e.g., Adult Protective Services, Child Protective Services). (Supervisors: Ruth Schulder, B.A.; Christine Tabone, M.A.)

Assisted on studies examining the neuropsychological development and psychopharmacological treatment (e.g., Adderall, omega-3) of children and adolescents with diagnosed and suspected Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Represented data in a co-authored poster presentation, input data (e.g., dyadic parent-child symptom ratings, fMRI output, CBCL), assembled protocol and neuropsychological assessment binders, and recruited and scheduled patients. (Supervisor: Beth Krone. Ph.D.; Principal Investigator: Jeffery Newcorn, M.D.)

Assisted on and scored neuropsychological (i.e., WISC-IV), medical (e.g., EEG, resting heart rate), and behavioral measures (e.g., CBCL) for use in research on children with Attentional Deflect Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. (Supervisor: Beth Krone. Ph.D,; Principal Investigator: Jeff Newcorn, M.D.)

Used motivational interviewing to assist callers in crisis; trained helpline volunteers in motivational interviewing, the transtheoretical model of change, and providing psychoeducation; made warm hand-offs to and referrals for treatment settings (e.g., inpatient care); provided psychoeducation and recruited volunteers at health fairs. (Supervisor: Lauren Smolar, B.A.)

Projects included stream-lining neural net data in BESA and STATISTICA software for a Ph.D. candidate dissertation (Principle Investigator: Valerie Shafer; Ph.D. Candidate: Yan Yu)

Streamlined neural net data in BESA and STATISTICA software for a Ph.D. candidate dissertation (Principal Investigator: Valerie Shafer, Ph.D.; Candidate: Yan Yu)

Responsibilities included assisting in surgical and exam room preparation, disclosing positive and negative patient status and prognoses to pet owners, performing clerical duties, restocking equipment in the exam room and treatment areas, creating chemical solutions for treatment

Participated in and monitored several projects. Counted pores on nuclear membranes under SEM microscope in Progeria tissue samples; investigated relationship between Herpes Simplex 1 and green tea catechins; and created knock-down and stud mice for two investigations on autism. (Principal Investigator: Y. Wen, M.D.)