Psychology Predoctoral Fellows
Kevin Coleman has completed his predoctoral internship and received his PsyD from Wheaton College in June 2013. He will continue on at the Child Study Center as a Second Year fellow with an emphasis in the area of Pediatrics.
Naama de la Fontaine has completed her predoctoral internship and received her PhD from Adelphi University in June 2013. She will continue on at the Child Study Center as a Second Year fellow with an emphasis in the area of Trauma.
Rebecca Doggett has completed her predoctoral internship and received her PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara in June 2013. She will continue on at the Child Study Center as a postdoctoral fellow with an emphasis in the area of Autism.
Jennifer Foss-Feig has completed her predoctoral internship and received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in June 2013. She will continue on at the Child Study Center as a postdoctoral fellow with an emphasis in the area of Autism.
Sarah Gray has completed her predoctoral internship and received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in June 2013. She will continue on at the Child Study Center as a postdoctoral fellow with an emphasis in the area of Early Childhood.
Lindsay Scharfstein has completed her predoctoral internship received her PhD from the University of Central Florida in June 2013. She will continue on at the Child Study Center as a postdoctoral fellow with an emphasis in the area of Anxiety Disorders.
Psychology Postdoctoral Fellows
Caroline Adelman, our second year Anxiety Disorders Fellow, will be joining the faculty at the Family Institute at Northwestern University, where she will be working clinically with children, families, and couples. In collaboration with her colleagues at Northwestern, Caroline will be helping to start a child anxiety clinic within the Family Institute. In addition to her clinical work, Caroline will be teaching and supervising graduate students within the Family Institute's Marriage and Family Therapy Program, as well as consulting abroad on best-practices for couples therapy.
Carla Cirilli, our second year Pediatrics Fellow,will be working as a pediatric psychologist at Integrated Wellness Group in New Haven, CT. In addition to providing therapy and assessment, she will be co-developing a new, integrated behavioral health program at a large, well-established pediatrics office serving the local community.
Angela Maupin, our second year Early Childhood Fellow, has accepted a position with the Yale Child Study Center as a T32 Research Postdoctoral Fellow in the NIMH Research Training Program in Childhood-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders. She will be mentored by Drs. Linda Mayes and Walter Gilliam. Broadly, her research will focus on how young children develop in the context of early adversity, such as economic disadvantage, parental histories influence by trauma, and parental substance abuse, and the evaluation of high-quality parenting and early childhood intervention programs.
Kelly Powell, our second year Autism Fellow, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor for the Emory School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. In this role Kelly will be working at the Marcus Autism Center furthering her work in developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based parenting interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Clinical pursuits at the Center will include multidisciplinary evaluations of children with ASD and related disorders.
Linda Sapanski Smith, our second year Trauma Fellow, will be joining the clinical faculty at NYU and Bellevue Hospital where she will be working on a National Child Traumatic Stress Network grant aimed at increasing trauma-informed care practices at juvenile justice centers in NYC.
UCL-Yale MSc in Psychodynamic Developmental Neuroscience Students
Line Brotnow has accepted a post-graduate research fellowship at the Yale Stress Center and is aiming to start a graduate program in clinical psychology in the US in 2014.
Eva Krapohl will be starting a PhD in behavioural genetics with Professor Robert Plomin at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre in London, studying the interplay of genes and environment in development.
Airey Lau wishes to pursue a career in Educational Neuroscience and Psychology research in the near future.
Virgina Peisch will be staying in New Haven, taking a position at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence as of July 1st 2013 (http://heblab.research.yale.edu/heblab-yale/myweb.php?hls=10061). She will be working as a research assistant on the preschool RULER program -- an initiative that seeks to promote social and emotional learning in an educational setting (http://therulerapproach.org/).
Francesca Starita plans to continue working in Dr. Megan Smith's lab--PMS and Perinatal Research Program--during the summer.
Social Work Fellows
Mary Chastain will be staying on at the Child Study Center, working as a clinician for the IICAPS program.
C. Andrew Conway with be staying on as a clinician at the Child Study Center with the IICAPS program.
Hillary Lesniak, will be taking a month long trip through Europe and then moving to Michigan where she will pursue a job in Infant Mental Health in Detroit and surrounding cities. She is looking to work clinically with parents and children ages 0-5 in a home-based setting.
Zach Meredith will be staying on at the Child Study Center, working as a clinician for the Outpatient and Young Child clinics and conducting research for the Anxiety Disorders Program.
Child Psychiatry Fellows
Rebecca Hicks has accepted a faculty position at MGH/Harvard Medical School with a shared appointment in the sections of women's mental health and child psychiatry. Her focus will be to gain a better understanding of the biological and environmental factors that predispose to vulnerability and/or resilience to the development of mental illness in children and young adults, with the aim of developing strategies for prevention or delay of symptom onset. Her time will be split between clinical care and clinical research, with an emphasis on working with a team to develop a protocol for supportive early intervention for families with a history of serious psychiatric illness or children showing prodromal symptoms of mood or psychotic disorders.
Claudia Moreno will be an assistant professor at the University of Florida Jacksonville Campus and will be teaching the very first class of Psychiatry Residents there. In addition, she will be working mostly with children in an outpatient clinic.
Nicole Zuber will be returning to New York City as one of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist working at the St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital - CARES Program. CARES is the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service of the Child and Family Institute at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital. She will be working with future child psychiatry fellows affiliated with the hospital. The purpose of the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES) at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center is to provide a safe and therapeutic school environment for New York City public high school students whose previous school performance has been limited by emotional and behavioral difficulties. CARES provides both educational and therapeutic components, including substance abuse treatment for students who use drugs or alcohol.
Solnit Integrated Child and Adult Psychiatry Fellows
John Carlson will be taking a position as a research fellow at the West Haven VA Medical Center working within the research program run by D. Cyril D’Souza.
Kyle Williams will be taking a faculty position at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and will be starting a research clinic for children with PANDAS.