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Program Leadership

Training Program Executive Leadership

  • Elizabeth H Connors, PhD

    Director of Training

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Training, Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology, Yale Department of Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Community Mental Health Services
    • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
    • Psychology, Social
    • Schools
    • Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
    • Implementation Science
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  • Rajita Sinha, PhD

    Section Chief

    Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience; Deputy Chair of Psychiatry for Psychology, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center; Chief, Psychology Section in Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Chronic Disease
    • Neurobiology
    • Neurosciences
    • Psychiatry
    • Stress, Psychological
    • Substance-Related Disorders
    • Psychiatry and Psychology
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  • Jacob Tebes, PhD

    Institution Chief for the Clinical Placement, Connecticut Mental Health Center

    Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology), in the Child Study Center and of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences); Director, Division of Prevention and Community Research, Department of Psychiatry; Chief Psychologist, Connecticut Mental Health Center; Program Director, NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention; Director, Elm City COMPASS, Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Primary Prevention
    • Public Health
    • Social Change
    • Social Justice
    • Program Evaluation
    • Cultural Diversity
    • Vulnerable Populations
    • Resilience, Psychological
    • Community-Based Participatory Research
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  • Dwain Fehon, PsyD

    Institution Chief for the Clinical Placement, Yale New Haven Hospital

    Professor of Psychiatry; Chief Psychologist, Psychiatric Services, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director, Behavioral Medicine Service

    Research Interests
    • Alcoholism
    • Anxiety
    • Behavioral Medicine
    • Depression
    • Quality of Life
    • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
    • Resilience, Psychological
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Executive Training Committee

The Executive Training Committee (ETC) of the Yale Doctoral Internship serves as the governing body for the training program and is chaired by David Klemanski, Psy.D., MPH, Director of Training. The ETC is comprised of the Training Program Executive Leadership, including the Elizabeth Connors, Ph.D., Director of Training; Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., Chief of the Psychology Section; Jacob Tebes, Ph.D. and Dwain Fehon, Psy.D., the Chiefs of Psychology at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and Yale New Haven Hospital, respectively, Michelle Silva, Psy.D., Senior Advisor, and Maggie Davis, Ph.D., Scholarship Coordinator. Additionally, the committee includes internship training faculty who serve renewable three-year terms to ensure diversity of perspective.

The ETC meets monthly and addresses administrative governance issues for the program, including all program policies and relevant initiatives and monitoring program quality improvement.

Current ETC Training Faculty

ETC Administrative Staff