Dr. Armey received his B.A. from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. from Kent State University. He went on to complete his clinical internship at Brown and was a post doctoral fellow in the Psychosocial Research Program before becoming faculty in the department. Dr. Armey conducts research out of Butler Hospital.
In addition to co-directing the CEL Lab, Dr. Armey is also an Associate Director of the Consortium for Research Innovation in Suicide Prevention. 

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Dr. Schatten received her B.A. from Bucknell University, M.A. from Columbia University, and Ph.D. from Fordham University. She completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship through the Brown Clinical Psychology Training Consortium. Dr. Schatten conducts research out of Butler Hospital. She is also the Adult Track Coordinator for the Brown Clinical Psychology Training Consortium clinical internship program. Outside of work Dr. Schatten enjoys reading, relaxing and watching Netflix, the beach, restaurants, and spending time with family and friends.

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Dr. Bozzay is an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a Psychologist at the Providence VA. She is also the Associate Director of the Suicide Prevention Research and Innovation Group (SPRING) at the Providence VA. Dr. Bozzay researches risk processes of suicide and violence, leveraging experimental (i.e., laboratory and ambulatory tasks) and psychophysiological methodologies (i.e., EEG/ERP). She recently received an MPI NIMH-funded R01 with Dr. Armey to develop a sleep-based model of proximal risk for suicide.

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Chris Hughes is a postdoctoral research fellow in Butler Hospital’s Psychosocial Research Program through the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Rutgers University (2020) and completed his clinical psychology internship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University prior to matriculating into his postdoctoral fellowship there as well.

Dr. Hughes’s clinical interests include suicide, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), emotion and behavioral dysregulation, borderline personality disorder. His clinical trainings include cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, the unified protocol, collaborative assessment and management of suicidality, among other empirically supported interventions.

Dr. Hughes’s research interests include suicide, NSSI, emotion dysregulation, repetitive negative thinking, experiential avoidance/non-acceptance, affective forecasting, treatment and assessment development and improvement, and the incorporation of mobile technology into treatment and research. One line of research is focused on elucidating the cognitive and affective processes associated with within-person change in suicide risk, ultimately identifying modifiable mechanisms to target with interventions. The second, complimentary, line of research centers around the development of brief, digital, standalone interventions targeting established processes and risk factors associated with acute suicide risk.