Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Translational Research, Psychiatry; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Program for Psychedelic Science, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic, Psychiatry; Director, Neuroscience Research Training Program, Yale Department of Psychiatry
Eileen Billingslea has a long history of involvement with research programs in the Yale School of Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry, serving as a research associate and coordinator since 1998. She has been with the Yale OCD Research Clinic since 2008, coordinating clinic research activities across departments. She helps guide new staff, PGAs and research assistants toward an awareness of good clinical practices and collaboration, ensures training and compliance, and acts as clinic resource. Eileen manages research studies, patient data and documentation, cash administration, human research protection concerns and HIC - IRB submissions. She supervises other aspects of the clinic’s day-to-day functioning.
Madison Fitzpatrick, BA, has been working in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCRD) research for the past 3 years. Prior to her employment at the Yale OCD Clinic, she worked under Dr. Fugen Neziroglu at the Bio Behavioral Institute, an intensive outpatient treatment center for OCRDs. She began working there as a research assistant in 2019 and worked her way up to clinical trial research in early 2020. She graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in Psychology, minoring in Neuroscience, in December 2020. In her final semester, she received a grant from Hofstra University to continue conducting research at the Bio Behavioral Institute, titled the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Transformative Learning Grant. She also received the departmental award for Academic Excellence in Psychology the same semester. Primarily, her research interests focus on the intersection of neuroscience and psychology, and she seeks to understand the underlying relationships between the brain and behavior that lead to OCRD symptomatology, further enriching the treatment of these conditions in the process. In the future, she hopes to continue researching OCRDs and eventually become a doctor of Clinical Psychology, functioning as both a therapeutic provider and a researcher in the OCRD community.
Geena received a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Brown University. While pursuing her bachelor's, she complemented her studies by pursuing clinical work within programs focusing on schizophrenia, mood disorders, and addiction. Geena is currently a postgraduate associate in Anticevic Lab at Yale University School of Psychiatry.
Stephen came to the clinic with a long-held interest in anxiety disorders and OCD. He coordinates studies, conducts clinical assessment and education, facilitates psychedelic study sessions, and trains staff.
Elizabeth came to the clinic with a background in psychometrics and psychophysics. She has particular interest in anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as taboo thoughts and suicidality. In our clinic, she conducts diagnostic intakes and clinical assessments.
Avalon Moore is a research assistant in the Department of Psychiatry, working within the Yale OCD Research Clinic. She graduated magna cum laude in 2021 from the University of San Francisco where she studied psychology and neuroscience. She is currently interested in evidence-based treatment for substance use and trauma- and stressor- related disorders in underserved female populations.
Associate Professor In the Child Study Center and in Psychiatry; Vice Chair for Research, Child Study Center; Co-Director of the Tic and OCD Program, Child Study Center; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Psychiatry; Physician-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Psychiatry; Director Metabolic Modeling and Director Psychiatric MRS, Magnetic Resonance Research Center; Director, Neuroimaging Sciences Training Program, Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and Psychiatry; Chair, Magnetic Resonance Research Center Protocol Review Committee, Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Yale Depression Research Program; Co-Director, Yale New Haven Hospital Interventional Psychiatry Service