Education

Educational Experience

Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA                

Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow

Research fellow with the Center for Mindfulness & Compassion

Clinical fellow with Outpatient Addiction Services

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH                                              

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

Health Psychology Concentration

Dissertation: “A longitudinal investigation of associations between self-reported reasons for abstinence from gambling and continued abstinence from gambling over a 6-month period.”

Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA               

Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Intern

Population Health – Adult Outpatient/Substance Abuse Track

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA                              

Certificate of Studies, Clinical Effectiveness

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH                                              

M.A., Clinical Psychology

Thesis: “University students’ self-reported reasons for abstaining from prescription versus non-prescription stimulants and depressants.”

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

B.S., Neuroscience Major with Chemistry Minor

Senior Thesis: “Drug addiction and the orbitofrontal cortex"