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    Melissa R Schick, PhD

    Assistant Professor
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    Biography

    Melissa Schick an Assistant Professor within the Division of Prevention and Community Research (DPCR) at the Yale School of Medicine. Her research aims to advance understanding of mechanistic processes influencing the development, course, maintenance, remission, and prevention of substance use among trauma-exposed individuals. Her work includes a specific focus on the use of experience sampling methodologies to examine factors that occur proximally to substance use, with the goal of ultimately informing the development and implementation of just-in-time substance use-focused interventions. 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. Dr. Schick's work is currently funded through a Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

    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. She completed her postdoctoral training in the DPCR's NIDA-funded T32 in Substance Use Prevention Research. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Connecticut.

    Appointments

    • Psychiatry

      Assistant Professor
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    Education & Training

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Yale School of Medicine
    PhD
    University of Rhode Island, Clinical Psychology (2022)
    Clinical Internship
    Medical University of South Carolina (2022)
    BS
    Suffolk University, Psychology (2013)

    Research

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Melissa R Schick's published research.

    Publications

    2024

    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

    • honor

      John C. Roitzsch Memorial Scientist Practitioner Award

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      Student Merit Award

    • honor

      Dean’s Fellowship

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      Special Recognition Award for Service to the Undergraduate Community

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      Student Travel Award

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    389 Whitney Avenue

    New Haven, CT 06511

    United States