Melissa R Schick, PhD

Melissa Schick is a postdoctoral fellow with the Yale School of Medicine NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention. Dr. Schick obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rhode after completing her predoctoral internship through the Charleston Consortium (Medical University of South Carolina/Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center), and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Suffolk University.

Her research focuses on the role of affective processes in the etiology, course, and treatment of substance use in populations characterized by trauma. She is particularly interested in leveraging experience sampling methodologies to understand the proximal role of emotion dynamics, and hopes to leverage this knowledge to develop and implement emotion-focused interventions to prevent and treat substance use-related concerns following trauma exposure. She is further interested in exploring health disparities and inequities related to substance use, and is dedicated to conducting work focused on marginalized populations to better understand how such inequities might be considered in substance use treatment and research.