Dr. Miller is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Director of the Psychosocial Research Program at Butler Hospital. Dr. Miller’s research interests are focused on the development and evaluation of interventions to reduce suicidal behavior. He has been funded continuously by the National Institute of Mental Health for the past 35 years to develop and evaluate treatments for severe depression and suicidal behavior. Dr. Miller is the author of over 270 papers and books related to depression and suicidal behavior. Most recently, he has developed a new intervention to reduce suicidal behavior, the Coping Long Term with Active Suicide Program (CLASP) which has shown promise to reduce suicidal behavior in high risk patients recently discharged from emergency departments or psychiatric hospitals. Dr. Miller was one of the principal investigators of the largest study of screening and intervention for suicide ever conducted in the United States (Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation Study – ED-SAFE). Dr. Miller currently serves as a consultant to the American Foundation for Suicide Research as well as to the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Joint Commission.

Dr. Armey is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. His research encompasses the use of novel measures and methods to assess suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury, with the goal of identifying processes and mechanisms amenable to intervention. He is currently running two projects (R01 MH095786 & R01 MH097741) developing an emotion reactivity translational endophenotype associated with suicidal ideation and behavior as well as novel measures of implicit cognitions associated with suicide. These projects employ ecological momentary assessment (EMA) alongside laboratory-based behavioral assessment paradigms (e.g. behavioral tasks, psychophysiology, & eye-tracking) to develop a complex multimethod assessment of suicide risk. His most recent work builds upon the emotion reactivity endophenotype to explore associated neural circuitry (R01 MH112674). In addition, he has lent his expertise in EMA and advanced assessment techniques to projects examining suicide (PI Nugent: R01 MH105379, PI Schatten/Miller: R01 MH108610, & PI Dickstein: R01 MH110379) as well as severe mental illness (PI Gaudiano/Moitra: R21 MH102000), frustrative nonreward (PI Dickstein: R01 MH111542), and trauma risk in adolescents (PI Nugent: R01 MH108641). He was an invited speaker at the NIMH “Mechanisms Underlying Suicide Risk: Integrating RDoC to Inform Novel and Personalized Interventions” conference and in a symposium highlighting “Novel Approaches to Understanding and Predicting Suicide” at the 2017 meeting of the International Association for Suicide Research/American Foundation Suicide Prevention (IASR/AFSP) International Summit on Suicide Research. A listing of his publications can be found at:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/47936760

Dr. Weinstock is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. At Brown, she conducts research on the development and evaluation of adjunctive behavioral interventions for severe mood disorders and suicide prevention, delivered at highly vulnerable transitions in care (e.g., from inpatient to outpatient treatment, following ED discharge, and from criminal legal to community settings). Most exemplary of Dr. Weinstock’s research program is her current role as MPI of the NIMH-funded National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention (NCHATS; P501MH127512), her experiences as MPI of the multi-site Suicide Prevention for at-risk Individuals in Transition (SPIRIT; U01MH106660), and as co-developer of the Coping Long-Term with Active Suicide Program (Oxford University Press, 2022). She has published over 100 scholarly works and has been PI or Co-I on over 30 federal and foundation grants and contracts with over $85M in total costs.

In addition to her active engagement in research, Dr. Weinstock has been an active and energetic member of the Clinical Psychology Training Consortium at Brown. In this capacity, she has provided clinical and research supervision at the internship and postdoctoral levels and has served in multiple leadership roles within the clinical psychology training program, including in her current role as Director of Internship Training. She is Co-Director of Brown’s NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Suicide Research and Associate Director of Brown’s Consortium for Research Innovation in Suicide Prevention.

Outside of Brown, Dr. Weinstock has served as a standing member of the NIMH Mental Health Services Research (SERV) study section, sits on the Scientific Advisory of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, is a standing member of the NIMH Data Safety and Monitoring Board, and has served on the editorial boards of Behavior Therapy and the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly the Journal of Abnormal Psychology). She has provided consultation to numerous additional national and international workgroups on best practices in research and treatment of serious mental illness and suicide prevention.

A listing of her publications can be found:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/40835830/

Dr. Arias is a Research Psychologist in the Psychosocial Research program at Butler Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. Her current research focuses on the development and implementation of suicide interventions. Her most recent project involved estimating the prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among older emergency department (ED) patients (R03 MH107551-01). The findings examined disparities in ED care of older adults, specifically in receiving a mental health evaluation after presenting with current suicide risk. She also lends her expertise in adverse event detection and reporting to the Coping Long-term with Active Suicide Program (CLASP) study (PI Miller: R01 MH-101129) and the Suicide Risk Reduction in the Year Following Jail Release (SPIRIT trial; PIs Johnson/Weinstock: U01 MH106660). These projects aim to develop and evaluate suicide prevention and treatment efforts in high-risk populations. She was recently awarded the Excellence in Geriatric Emergency Medicine Research Award for her presentation on disparities in treatment for older adults in the ED at the 2017 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) conference. A listing of her publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/41741445/

Dr. Barredo is a Research Scientist at Providence VAMC and an Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. She completed her doctoral and postdoctoral training at Brown University where she developed expertise in multi-modal neuroimaging, electroencephalography, and basic cognitive neuroscience. In her clinical neuroscience research, she uses neuroimaging to examine the underlying neuropathology of suicidality, and of mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Barredo also uses neuroimaging to identify neural predictors and mechanisms of response to neuromodulation interventions for psychiatric disorders.

Dr. Benz is a Clinical Psychologist within Butler Hospital’s Psychosocial Research Program and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from Clark University (2022) and completed her clinical psychology internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University. Dr. Benz is collaborating with several CRISP members on completed, ongoing, and planned projects, including several federally funded grants. Dr. Benz’s research interests include substance use, suicide, development and implementation of clinical interventions, mental health-related stigma, and barriers to engagement with mental health care. Her current research is focused on a harm reduction model to approach suicidal ideation and overdose, including developing interventions to reduce the risk of suicidal behaviors while intoxicated.

Dr. Bozzay is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University 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 mechanisms underlying suicide and violence, leveraging experimental (i.e., laboratory and ambulatory tasks) and psychophysiological methodologies (i.e., EEG/ERP). She recently received an NIMH-funded R01 to develop a sleep-based model of proximal risk for suicide with Dr. Armey. She has collaborated with CRISP members at different hospitals (i.e., Butler Hospital, Providence VA) on multiple projects related to identification of suicide risk and interventions to reduce suicide risk.

Dr. Duarte-Velez is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown. Her long-term research interests are to develop and tailor treatments for suicidal minority youth (e.g. ethnic, sexual, multiple minority status) and their families’ needs. Another goal is to incorporate health disparity studies into treatment research within a cross-cultural perspective. She a strong background in the treatment of depressed Latino/a adolescents and their families. Her current treatment research incorporates cultural adaptations and ethnic minority perspectives in adolescents at risk for suicide. As a predoctoral fellow (F-31), she gained expertise in suicide risk factors on Puerto Rican youth and instrument translation and adaptation (linguistic and cultural), and was first author on a review of conceptual and methodological issues on research regarding suicidal behavior among Latinx adolescents. As a post-doctoral researcher she   continued to expand her study of suicidality through a clinical sample of depressed Latinx youth. Dr. Duarte-Velez was recipient of a young investigator grant awarded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in which she developed a novel treatment protocol that addresses culture and developmental stage as central components in CBT with Latinx youth with suicidal behavior. Also, she developed a 3.5 hour workshop for gatekeepers, as Capacity Building Coordinator of a suicide prevention grant awarded to the University of Puerto Rico. Currently, she is has an NIMH K award to continue her research on treatment development with suicidal, adolescent Latinx youth in the U.S.

Dr. Gaudiano is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Senior Investigator in Brown’s Mindfulness Center. He also is a Research Psychologist at the Psychosocial Research Program and Program Director for Transitional Outpatient at Butler Hospital. Much of Dr. Gaudiano’s work has focused on developing, evaluating, and implementing transitions of care interventions for patients with severe mental illness who are at risk for suicide.  As part of this endeavor, he co-developed the Coping Long-Term with Active Suicide Program (CLASP) with Drs. Ivan Miller and Lauren Weinstock. CLASP has been tested in several past and ongoing clinical trials in psychiatric hospital, VA, and emergency department settings. In addition, Dr. Gaudiano has published over 100 articles, commentaries, and chapters on topics related to suicidality, mood disorders, psychosis, treatment adherence, and mobile technology.  He currently serves on the editorial board of 3 professional journals and has been a grant reviewer for NIH and several international funding agencies. Related to his suicide prevention work, Dr. Gaudiano was awarded a Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD) to develop a hospital aftercare program for patients with comorbid bipolar and substance use disorders.  He also has been the recipient of numerous awards from NIH over the years, including a current grant (PIs Gaudiano/Moitra: R34MH115144) to develop and test a mobile intervention to improve outcomes (e.g., improve treatment adherence, reduced suicidality) among patients with schizophrenia following discharge from a psychiatric hospital. A list of his publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/49249710/

Dr. Hughes is a CRISP T32 research fellow in Butler Hospital’s Psychosocial Research Program and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Rutgers University (2020) and completed his clinical psychology internship at Brown University prior to matriculating into their postdoctoral fellowship. In this role, Dr. Hughes has collaborated with several CRISP members on completed, ongoing, and planned projects, including several federally funded grants, aimed at improving the prediction, prevention, and treatment of suicide. 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.

Dr. Kemp is an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Brown Uiversity Warren Alpert Medical School and Staff Psychologist with Rhode Island Hospital Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Bradley/Hasbro Children’s Research Center. She is also the Director of the Rhode Island Family Court Mental Health Clinic. She is currently the PI on a K23 award to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief suicide intervention implemented by front-line juvenile justice staff for youth involved in the juvenile justice system (K23MH111606; PI Kemp). She is a Co-Investigator on several university- and NIH-funded grants, including ParentTECH (R34 DA042247, MPIs: Spirito and Hernandez), Date SMART Girls (R01HD080780, PI: Rizzo) and Project EPICC (R01DA035231, PI: Tolou-Shams). Her clinical research focuses on suicide prevention as well as the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatment with juvenile justice involved-youth.

Dr. Kraines is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and a Research Psychologist in the Behavioral Medicine and Addictions Research Program at Butler Hospital. Her current research focuses on affective-cognitive factors that serve as mechanisms and predictors of change in mood disorders and health behaviors (e.g., depression, anxiety, smoking cessation, recovery from alcohol use disorder). Additionally, her research aims to adapt evidence-based mindfulness interventions for at-risk populations (e.g., caregivers of cancer patients, oncology health professionals). Her research utilizes mixed-method assessments including self-report measures, clinical interviews, novel computer based tasks, and eye tracking technology. Clinically, Dr. Kraines treats individuals struggling with mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders. Dr. Kraines supervises clinical psychology residents completing the Alcohol and Drug Partial Hospital Program Rotation at Butler Hospital.

Dr. Kudinova is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Bradley Hospital. Her emerging line of research focuses on advancing what is known about bio-behavioral mechanisms of self-referential cognitive-affective processes involved in suicide risk across development using multiple-units-of-analysis approach. Her current project, on which she collaborates with several CRISP members, focuses on examining whether differential neural processing of self-criticism and self-reassurance is linked to ecologically derived suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth.

Dr. Nesi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a Clinical Psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Nesi’s research examines the role of social media in adolescents’ peer relationships and mental health, with a focus on depression and suicidal thoughts and behavior. She is currently funded by a K23 award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She also writes the popular weekly newsletter Techno Sapiens, about technology and the people who use it. Dr. Nesi earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Harvard University and her graduate degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Brown, she completed her predoctoral internship and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention-funded postdoctoral fellowship before joining the faculty in 2020. Dr. Nesi is passionate about understanding how and for whom social media use influences adolescents’ mental health, so as to identify and intervene with youth most at risk.

Dr. Nugent is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is a child clinical psychologist at the Bradley Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital Research Center. Dr. Nugent has conducts programmatic research aimed at characterization of neurobiological and psychosocial influences during high risk periods of stress and transition, toward the goal of developing informed and novel secondary and tertiary interventions. Dr. Nugent’s early work focused on the interplay of biomarkers and social context in the acute aftermath of trauma as related to development of stress-sensitive disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder and depression. This early work was expanded through a Mentored Research Scientist Award to incorporate training and research in psychiatric genomics and advanced analytic models, which has permitted Dr. Nugent to continue to develop an integrated program of research aimed at rich characterization of clinically significant and dynamical processes that unfold as at-risk adolescents navigate periods of significant stress. Dr. Nugent’s current NIMH funded research (R01MH105379) examines adolescent in vivo emotion reactivity as related to social context in the real world during the high-risk transition from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization for suicidal thoughts and behaviors to their home environments. It is expected that early childhood maltreatment experiences will be associated with alterations in the methylation profile of genes involved in the major stress system and that these epigenetic changes will be associated with increased reactivity to social context in adolescents. Dr. Nugent has presented as invited workshops through NIEHS and SAMHSA as well as NIMH, including a talk at a 2016 NIMH workshop on “An RDoC approach to research for rapid translaton for treatment of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.” A list of her publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/48030398/

Dr. Primack is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Research Health Scientist at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She specializes in depression and suicide in military and Veteran populations. She received a career development award to examine the acceptability and feasibility of a men’s depression treatment for Veterans. She is currently the principal investigator on a VA Health services merit award to examine the efficacy of a suicide prevention program for recently hospitalized Veterans. She sits on the Providence VAMC suicide prevention committee and is a member of the military suicide consortium. Dr. Primack has advocated for Veteran suicide research at local and national conferences and was recently invited to represent the Providence VAMC at the Eastern Council of State Governments conference, where she was involved in public policy brainstorming with local state representatives. Dr. Primack is the local site lead for the Women’s Practice Based Research Network (PBRN), a health services research network whose goal is to facilitate implementation of research strategies into VA clinical practice. She has over 6 years of experience working both clinically and in a research capacity with military Veterans. A full list of her publications can be found at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=primack%2C+jennifer

Dr. Schatten is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Her program of research examines both suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious thoughts and behaviors using laboratory-based assessment, ecological momentary assessment (EMA) technology, and the real-time assessment of speech patterns to predict these behaviors. She is currently the PI on an R01 project that examines the utility of speech patterns, collected via smartphone and yoked to EMA assessments, to identify and predict changes in suicide risk. Supported by NIMH, this is a multidisciplinary grant in which she is collaborating with Brown University’s Quantitative Sciences Program and the University of Michigan’s Computer Science and Engineering Department and Department of Psychiatry. In addition to this award, she collaborates on multiple projects focused on a multi-method assessment strategy to prospectively predict suicidal ideation and behavior in a high-risk inpatient population, as well as a physical activity intervention to improve mood symptoms in pregnant women with depression. A listing of her publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/48024813/

Dr. Spirito is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. He has been conducting researchin adolescent suicidality and depression for over 25 years. He conducted some of the first studies on brief interventions in the Pediatric Emergency Department for adolescents who attempted suicide. The majority of his recent work has been on the treatment of depressed and suicidal adolescents, almost all of whom have been enrolled for outpatient treatment studies following a psychiatric hospitalization. Along with his colleagues, he published the first randomized trial of individual therapy with adolescents who had attempted suicide. He has also conducted a study of an integrated CBT protocol for adolescents with alcohol use disorders, major depression, and suicidality. He just completed two larger trials using the same treatment protocol with adolescents with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders in a community mental health clinic as well as with suicidal adolescents recruited from an inpatient psychiatric unit. He is on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the NIMH-funded 9 site national study called ED-STARS, an emergency department adolescent suicide screening study. His work has been supported by NIMH, NIAAA, and NIDA as well as foundations, such as the American Foundation for Suicide Research. He has served on the NIMH Data and Safety Monitoring Board as well as the NIMH Interventions Committee for Disorders involving Children and their Families and the NIH Committee on Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention. A listing of his publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/47998047/

Dr. Uebelacker is Associate Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Family Medicine. She has been site PI for the ED-SAFE and ED-SAFE 2 studies.  Funded by NIMH, these multi-site studies have examined implementation of universal screening for suicide and follow-up interventions for people at high risk for suicide in eight emergency department sites. Dr. Uebelacker also studies integration of behavioral health treatment into primary care settings; within this area, she is interested in best practices for suicide screening, risk assessment, and treatment planning in primary care. She is a member of the Care New England Suicide Prevention Committee and has represented Care New England at a Zero Suicide Academy. Her work has been supported by NIMH, NINR, NCCIH, NHLBI as well as the Rhode Island Foundation. A list of her publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/41149566/

Dr. Wolff is an Assistant Professor (Research) at Brown and a Staff Psychologist at Rhode Island and Bradley Hospitals. She has served as a Co-PI or Co-I on seven NIH-funded intervention trials. These studies included treatment development research for adolescent populations including comorbid conduct problems and depression, depression and obesity, and suicidality and depression in parents and adolescents. She recently completed two treatment trials for high-risk adolescents with suicidality, substance use, and other co-occurring disorders. The first successfully recruited suicidal adolescents from the inpatient unit for intensive outpatient treatment and the second involved an effectiveness trial in the community. All of these studies have included the use of CBT based skills for at-risk youth. Most recently she successfully developed and piloted an intervention for the inpatient setting designed to reduce suicidality as adolescents transfer to outpatient care. She also serves as the lead psychologist on the Bradley Hospital inpatient unit and Associate Director of Program Development for Intensive Services. Her publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/48029144/

Dr. Yen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School. Dr. Yen has been conducting research on identifying prospective predictors of suicidal behavior and self-injurious behaviors, and developing interventions for suicidal patients for the past 20 years. As a co-investigator on the seminal Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study – CLPS (MH050837), the largest longitudinal study of personality disorders to date, Dr. Yen spearheaded efforts to examine prospective predictors of suicidal behavior in this high-risk sample, which has resulted in many highly cited publications. She was also awarded a K23 career development award (MH066904) to follow suicidal adolescents after discharge from an inpatient psychiatric hospital admission, which has generated 10 published manuscripts to date. Most recently, Dr. Yen’s research experience has focused on treatment development grants targeting suicidal behaviors in adolescents and young adults hospitalized due to suicide risk (MH090147; MH101272, SRG-0-158-14). Furthermore, she has successfully piloted multi-modal interventions that incorporated a text messaging component. These treatment studies are in various stages, but preliminary results indicate promising clinical outcomes and excellent acceptability for the text messaging component of the intervention. Dr. Yen was also recently awarded a pilot intervention to examine mechanisms of risk for suicidal behavior in sexual minority youth. Her publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/41155485/

Dr. Brick’s research focuses on the underlying genetic architecture contributing to risk for substance use behaviors, stress sensitive sequelae (PTSD, depression), and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. She is also interested in time-based models of behavior change surrounding periods of risk and transition in relation to environmental and social context, emotion regulation, and biological influences, especially in the context of time-varying predictors of behaviors as they unfold in vivo. Dr. Brick received her Ph.D. in Behavioral Science at the University of Rhode Island with a focus in methodology and statistics. She completed a T32 postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University where her work focused on the integration of genetically informed research and the naturalistic in vivo measurement of behavior using multiple methods (e.g., momentary ecological assessment [EMA], electronically activated recordings [EAR], self-report, computer tasks, psychophysiology, clinical interview). Presently, she serves as the Associate Director of the Quantitative Sciences Program at Brown to provide consultation of research design and analysis, as well as training and expertise to faculty and trainees within the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown.

Dr. Chen is the Founding Associate Director of the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics (BCBI), Associate Professor of Medical Science, and Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice. She is a formally trained biomedical informatician who has been conducting research in clinical informatics for almost 20 years in both academic and hospital settings. Within BCBI, Dr. Chen leads the Clinical Informatics Innovation and Implementation (CI³) Laboratory that is focused on leveraging electronic health record (EHR) technology and data to improve healthcare delivery and biomedical discovery. Specific research interests include clinical documentation, clinical decision support, health information needs, standards and interoperability, natural language processing, and data mining. Dr. Chen’s prior research, funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health, involved leveraging the EHR and computational approaches to collect and analyze social, behavioral, and familial factors for conditions such as pediatric asthma and adult epilepsy (R01LM011364). More recent research in mental health informatics involves using EHR data and computational techniques to study suicidal thoughts and behaviors. With respect to training, Dr. Chen is Co-Director of the Scholarly Concentration in Biomedical Informatics (an elective research program for medical students), co-instructing several courses for teaching biomedical informatics and data science skills, and actively involved with mentoring high school, undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. Dr. Chen is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and is currently a member of NLM’s Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee. A listing of her publications can be found at: http://1.usa.gov/1raecrV

Dr. Dalrymple, PhD, is Assistant Chief of Psychology for Adult Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Brown University Health, and Professor, Clinician Educator, in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, followed by her postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University.  Her academic interests broadly include development and testing of psychosocial interventions for depression and anxiety (particularly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and other mindfulness-based therapies), examining the association between acceptance and mindfulness-based processes and psychiatric symptoms and functioning, and examining the association between acceptance and mindfulness-based processes, psychiatric symptoms, and problematic eating behaviors in bariatric surgery candidates. She has previously been awarded funding from NIMH and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD), and she currently serves as PI on a project funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to develop and pilot test a mobile intervention to reduce suicide risk in partial hospital patients.  Dr. Dalrymple has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and she serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (previously serving as Associate Editor).  She also serves as Co-Chair of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science’s Grants Committee, and as a grant reviewer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  

Dr. Elwy is an Associate Professor and Director of the Implementation Science Core in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Dr. Elwy is a health psychologist, health services researcher and an implementation scientist who examines 1) patients’ access to and uptake of mental health care and complementary and integrative health services, and 2) communication between patients, families and providers. Dr. Elwy is currently the co-director of the VA’s Complementary and Integrative Health Evaluation Center, funded by the VA Office of Patient Centered Care and the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI). Her research has also been funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) service and the Clinical Sciences Research and Development (CSR&D) service; and the NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Dr. Elwy received the VA HSR&D Best Research Paper Award in 2017 for her work on examining surgeons’ communication with patients and families about unanticipated surgical adverse events and the impact of this communication on surgeons’ well-being, published in JAMA Surgery.

Dr. Frank is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Implementation Science Core in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Frank received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Temple University and completed her residency training and T32 postdoctoral fellowship at Brown in the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center at Bradley Hospital. She is an implementation scientist and a licensed clinical psychologist with clinical expertise in exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Dr. Frank’s research focuses on using implementation science methods to increase clinician adoption and sustainment of evidence-based interventions for internalizing disorders. She has led formative work focused on designing implementation strategies to support therapists to overcome their own anxiety about using exposures. In addition, Dr. Frank has collaborated on research spanning a range of content areas and using several implementation science methods including formative evaluation, stakeholder engagement, design and tailoring of implementation strategies, assessment of implementation mechanisms, and implementation outcome assessment. Dr. Frank has led and mentored several qualitative and mixed methods studies focused on assessing contextual factors that influence the implementation of evidence-based interventions. 

Dr. Frank is an Edgar L Marston Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior and is affiliated with the Carney Institute for Brain Science. He directs the Brown Initiative for Computation in Brain and Mind and the Laboratory for Neural Computation. He received his PhD in Neuroscience and Psychology in 2004 at the University of Colorado, following undergraduate and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and biomedicine (Queen’s University (Canada) and University of Colorado). Dr. Frank’s work focuses primarily on theoretical models of frontostriatal circuits and their modulation by dopamine, especially in terms of their cognitive functions and implications for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The models are tested and refined with experiments involving pharmacological manipulation, deep brain stimulation, EEG, fMRI and genetics. Honors include Kavli Fellow (2016), the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award (2011), the Janet T Spence Award for early career transformative contributions (Association for Psychological Science, 2010) and the DG Marquis award for best paper published in Behavioral Neuroscience (2006). Dr. Frank is a senior editor for eLife, associate editors for Behavioral Neuroscienceand the Journal of Neuroscience, and member of Faculty of 1000 (Theoretical Neuroscience section).

Dr. Kim is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Brown and the Director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents Program, Mindful Teen, at Bradley Hospital. Clinically, Dr. Kim’s expertise is in evidence-based treatment for youth presenting with severe mood dysregulation and anxiety – most often characterized by chronic suicidality, non-suicidal self-injury, and/or other high-risk behaviors. Dr. Kim’s research dovetails from her clinical work and is in identifying multi-level factors that impact psychiatric functioning and outcomes. Specifically, she has an ongoing study looking at treatment outcomes for youth completing Mindful Teen. Another pilot grant from Brown’s Advance Clinical Translational Research Center examines the brain/behavior mechanisms of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with mood and anxiety disorders. The teens recruited for this study belong to one of two groups – those who completed the Mindful Teen program vs. community-based, non-psychiatric healthy controls. The intent for this and future projects is to utilize research to improve therapeutic services available to children and their families, with a particular interest in improving outcomes for youth with severe emotion dysregulation who present as treatment non-responders. Her publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/kerri.kim.1/bibliography/49393003/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

Dr. Marshall is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. Broadly, Dr. Marshall’s research focuses on substance use epidemiology, infectious diseases, and the social, environmental, and structural determinants of health of drug-using populations. He is the Principal Investigator of multiple NIH- and CDC-funded studies that seek to improve the health of people who use drugs. He has published more than 150 scientific publications. As the Scientific Director of PreventOverdoseRI, Rhode Island’s drug overdose surveillance and information dashboard, he works closely with the Rhode Island Department of Health to track, measure, and evaluate efforts to address the state’s opioid overdose epidemic. He serves as an expert advisor to Governor Raimondo’s Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force. He has received numerous accolades and awards for his research, including the Henry Merrit Wriston Fellowship from Brown University in 2015, and the 2016 Brian MacMahon Early Career Award from the Society for Epidemiologic Research.

Dr. Pearlman is Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Practice) and Consulting Epidemiologist and Evaluator for the Rhode Island Department of Health. As an applied public health researcher, her research agenda spans several different areas. Her grant funding addresses issues that affect population health across the life span, from pediatric asthma to adolescent mental health to violence and injury prevention in adolescent and young adult populations (e.g. suicide and suicide risk; interpersonal violence) to chronic diseases in adults. A consistent theme in her public health work is how the social ecology of a community has a profound effect on a wide range of health outcomes. This has meant shifting her research and evaluation work away from solely documenting the pervasiveness of health inequities to focusing on health equity and examining the social, economic, and environmental factors that underlie health disparities. She has received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for two consecutive 5-year grant cycles awarded to the Rhode Island Department Health that focus on suicide risk and protective factors in youth ages 10-24. As a core faculty advisor in Brown University’s Master of Public Health program, she mentors graduate students in public health practice and research.

Dr. Sheerin is an Assistant Professor on the Research Scholars Track at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a Research Scientist through the Bradley-Hasbro Children’s Research Center at Rhode Island Hospital. She also serves as a consulting psychologist for the Rhode Island Family Court. She received her PhD in a Clinical Child Psychology in 2021 from the University of Missouri. She completed her APA-accredited predoctoral residency through Brown’s Clinical Psychology Training Program and also completed an NIH T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown. Broadly, Dr. Sheerin’s work focuses on improving the behavioral health of youth involved in the juvenile legal system. She is particularly interested in (a) developing, adapting, and evaluating intervention and assessment approaches for complex clinical concerns (e.g., substance use, delinquent and harmful behaviors, suicidal thoughts and behaviors) for youth involved in the system and (b) promoting equitable access to quality behavioral healthcare for these system-involved youth. She also has a secondary interest in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice-related issues in health service psychology training and has published in this area. 

Dr. Shufang Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Sun’s research primarily aims to understand stigma and mental health among marginalized populations, with a particular focus on LGBTQ individuals in both domestic and low-and-middle-income countries. Her work is dedicated to promoting minority health, disease prevention, and management through innovative, evidence-based methods such as mHealth and mindfulness-based interventions. More specific to the area of suicide prevention, her research has involved vulnerable young people in China (e.g., sexual and gender minorities, youth in rural areas with high childhood adversity). 

Dr. Block is the Director of Quality and Patient Experience at Butler Hospital.  She received her PhD from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in 2013.  At the Heller School she was an NIAAA fellow in the Institute of Behavioral Health which focuses on the intersection of health, behavior, and systems of care.  Her research there evaluated the role of State policy on alcohol related problems for individuals in various racial/ethnic groups.  Dr. Block has a 25 year career thus far at Butler Hospital and has worked across its mental health and addiction programs in both inpatient and outpatient settings.  She is a member of the CNE Suicide Prevention Committee and co-chairs the Butler Hospital Suicide Prevention Committee with Dr. Armey.  They launched this steering committee in 2018 after Butler Hospital committed to implementing a Zero Suicide framework.  Dr. Block’s advocacy work in the area of mental health care is guided by a belief in the need for individuals with lived experience to be partners in policy development.  Dr. Block chairs the Butler Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Council which advises the hospital on the Zero Suicide initiatives as they are being developed.  Dr. Block helps drive the implementation of evidence based suicide prevention practices at Butler Hospital with Dr.’s Uebelacker and Armey.  In addition to her research colleagues Dr. Block works closely with the leaders of the RI Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and each year several events are held collaboratively to improve public health awareness of suicide prevention resources.

Tara Cooper is the Chief, Center for Health Promotion in the Division of Community Health and Equity at the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH). She plans, organizes, and directs the Violence and Injury Prevention Program, Tobacco Control Program, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, and Drug Overdose Prevention Program. She also serves as one of the co-chairs for the Governor’s Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force, Prevention Strategy Workgroup. Ms. Cooper has over 27 years of public health service experience at RIDOH.

She worked for two years during the Covid pandemic leading the Education Response teams to investigate, contact trace, and detect and respond to outbreaks in childcare settings, schools and colleges. Prior to the pandemic, she was the Survey Coordinator for the Rhode Island Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and spent 15 years as an epidemiologist in the Acute Infectious Disease Program at RIDOH.  She obtained a BS from Wilkes University and Masters in Public Health from Boston University with a concentration in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Tara currently supervises a professional staff of 28 persons and oversees a budget of more than $10 million dollars from state and federal resources. Her Health Promotion and Prevention Teams operate within a public health framework and uses data-driven, evidence based, and best practice risk reduction strategies with community partners and healthcare professionals. Through collaborations, the teams provide technical assistance to design and implement public health programming. They also work with state coalitions to advance policy, environmental and system change strategies that promote health equity and improve the health and safety of our Rhode Island communities.

Dr. Czech is a Clinical Educator in Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Kent Hospital of Rhode Island. She is the Director, Division of Behavioral Health, in the Department of Family Medicine at the Family Care Center of Kent Hospital, where she provides training and education to family medicine residents and psychology residents and social work students; integrated behavioral health patient care; research in primary care behavioral health; and leadership and advocacy for behavioral health initiatives. Stephanie is devoted to providing evidenced-based patient-centered care and clinical training, including suicide assessment and intervention for the primary care setting. She serves on the Care New England Suicide Prevention Committee, which has provided important opportunities for collaboration and practice improvement toward enhancing suicide awareness and prevention.

Denise Crooks, MPH, LICSW is a licensed social worker providing therapy within the Adult Gender and Sexuality Behavioral Health Program. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from Boston College and a Master of Public Health degree from Boston University. Denise previously worked as a behavioral health clinician with the Trans Health Access Team at Thundermist Health Center. Her clinical interests include working with the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender and non-binary patients, as well as those who practice consensual non-monogamy. Denise is kink-affirming and works from an anti-oppressive lens. She has spent time both in the United States and abroad, coordinating studies related to HIV, substance use, depression, and chronic pain and is an author or co-author of multiple peer-reviewed articles. She regularly organizes with community groups for LGBTQ policy reform at the state level. In 2020, Denise was awarded the Trans Ally Empowerment Award by TGI Network of Rhode Island. She also served on the planning committee for the Rhode Island Trans Health Conference from 2017 through 2019, where she co-chaired the Behavioral Health and Public Health tracks.

Dr. Dunn (she/her) is a full-time community research and evaluation consultant. She also holds a part-time position at Brown University’s Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences where she serves as an evaluator for the RI Department of Health. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and Master of Public Health at Brown University. Dr. Dunn’s interests and approach to community research and evaluation are largely influenced by her clinical training experiences in different hospital and community-based settings. She works in the service of projects that focus on getting children, adolescents, and adults fair access to mental health and related services – whether through the school system, community-based health centers, hospitals, or other settings. Dr. Dunn is especially interested in using quantitative and qualitative data to help her partners figure out what needs to change in current systems, institutions, policies, or practices (root causes) so that those who need services most are able to get them.

Dr. Feller is a Clinical Professor of Medical Science at the Warren Alpert Medical School (AMS) of Brown University and Co-Editor-in-Chief, Emeritus of the Rhode Island Medical Journal. He trained in Internal Medicine at McGill University, then completed a GI Fellowship at Mass
General Hospital. He is the former Director of the GI Division at the Miriam Hospital where he served for 18 years. In addition, he was the Co-Director of the Community Health Clerkship for 10 years. In 2002, he left clinical practice to concentrate on his career-long passion of teaching AMS students. His collaborations with students focus on scholarly writing for publication, health policy, cognitive diagnostic reasoning and biases, plagiarism, medical error, and media misinformation. He also is an academic advisor for Internal Medicine and has an active role in suicide prevention initiatives. Dr. Feller is a seven-time recipient of the Medical Senior Citation, the single highest award conferred annually by the graduating class to one faculty member for most outstanding mentoring/commitment; fourteen-time winner of the AMS Faculty Award for Teaching (presented annually by the graduating class to only 4 faculty for teaching excellence). Co-author of presentations at scientific meetings with 130 AMS students and scientific publications with 110 AMS students.

Prachi Kene is a Professor in the Department of Counseling, Educational Leadership, and School Psychology at Rhode Island College (RIC). In addition to her work at RIC, she is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Rhode Island. She serves as the Patient Safety Coordinator at RICBT Inc. In this role, she is responsible for training licensed clinicians in suicide risk assessment, providing consultations, maximizing efforts aimed at suicide prevention within the practice, and providing postvention services. Her areas of research and clinical interests include suicide risk assessment and suicide prevention.

Rose McClarnon is the Nurse Director of the Alcohol and Drug Inpatient and Adolescent Units at Butler Hospital. She is Community Support Professional Certified through BHDDH. She serves on several committees at Butler Hospital including Zero Suicide, Falls Prevention, Safe Patient Handling, and Quality Council. In addition to her work at the hospital, she also volunteers her time with programs like the Annual Rally for Recovery.

Elizabeth O’Dea is currently serving as Director of Community Engagement at Horizon Healthcare Partners (HHP)/BH Link.  The entire span of her work career has been dedicated to being an advocate for marginalized, underserved populations. Serving for 10 years as Director of the Poverello Center, a Food and Wellness Center located in Providence, Elizabeth supervised all operations and aspects of this program. Over her directorship, the program expanded and increased dramatically in scope and services rendered. She performed needs assessment, case management as well as assisting program participants with dental, medical and housing assistance. She also managed a staff of thirty plus employees and volunteers as well as marketing the program for numerous, successful fundraising events. Prior to HHP, her most recent position was with the Rhode Island Community Food Bank (RICFB). Her facilitation of community meetings, workshops, trainings and activities was integral to her work as liaison between the RICFB and all member agencies. She brings a wealth of experience and passion to her work.

In her present role at HHP, she shares information about the new 988 Crisis Lifeline as well as information about the new Rhode Island Outreach (RIO) crisis mobile team throughout Rhode Island.  She is instrumental in the planning and executing past practices to achieve this goal and will continue to play an integral role in the exciting work ahead at Horizon Healthcare Partners/BH Link.

Mike O’Neill is the Manager of Recovery Coach Services at Anchor Recovery Community Center in Providence, RI. Anchor is funded by way of grants, state contracts and reimbursement from insurance carriers. As the manager, Michael is responsible for overseeing a team of recovery coaches and developing recovery programs for individuals seeking their own path to recovery. Recovery coaching services are provided at the Anchor center or at the Department of Corrections for residents across the state. Michael ensures that quality peer recovery services are provided to those seeking help while meeting numerous contractual obligations and outcomes.  In addition, Michael is a key trainer for Anchor’s Recovery Coach Academy and Ethical Consideration for Recovery Specialists. Training is provided to individuals in personal recovery from SUD and in pursuit of state licensure as Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialists.  Michael is a participant of many of the Governor’s Task Force groups and subgroups, and continues to act as an advocate where needed. Michael continues his collaboration with Zero Suicide initiative since 2017. Prior to joining Anchor Recovery Community Center he worked at The Providence Center as an outreach worker with the RESPECT program and at residential facilities; as such, Michael has provided in-depth SUD support services to many disadvantaged residents and is keenly aware of the needs of said population. He is also a person in long-term recovery from SUD’s and shares his recovery story when appropriate to assist others.

Dr. Pineda is a Family Medicine Physician and Psychiatrist at Women and Infants Hospital with practices at the Center for Primary Care and Women’s Behavioral Health. Her focus is on preventative medicine, integration of behavioral services into primary care practices, women’s health and reproductive psychiatry. She currently serves as the medical director for Women’s Behavioral Health and the Program Director for the Women’s Mental Health Fellowship. She works with CRISP members in goal of suicide prevention by providing information and tools to behavioral health and primary care offices.

Corinna Roy is an Associate Director for Rhode Island’s Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH). Corinna is the primary contact for suicide prevention and response and workforce development. She also contributes to program and policy development around racial equity, telemedicine, housing, crisis response and other issues as they arise. She has a Master’s Degree in cultural anthropology and a Bachelor’s Degree in economics. She has extensive experience in project development, management, and evaluation; Medicaid, including RI’s reinventing Medicaid, value-based purchasing including the implementation of Accountable Entities in RI; strategic planning and both quantitative and qualitative data analysis. She has also consulted for Brown’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. She has authored published studies on community development, the transition from welfare to work and numerous evaluation projects.

Jo-el Tillinghast is currently serving as the Community Network Coordinator for the 988 call center and BH Link Crisis Center. Before advancing into her role with Horizon Healthcare Partners (HHP), Jo-el worked in the call center at BH Link for 4 years answering crisis calls on both the BH Link crisis line as well as the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline engaging in crisis response and intervention while providing support and resource guidance based on the individuals needs. In her present role, she uses her experience to raise awareness and inform communities and people throughout RI on services offered by 988 and BH Link and how it can be used as a great resource for so many. She attends community outreach events that include but aren’t limited to direct contacts with various agencies, schools, colleges & universities, first responders and other community groups providing the information needed to spread knowledge to the people. Jo-el also has a hand in recruiting those who are interested in getting into the behavioral health field and feeling the benefits of helping those in need. 

Prior to entering the behavioral health field, Jo-el worked with children and families in childcare for over 20 years throughout the City of Providence. She has gained much experience with diverse groups and populations over that time span and uses this in her daily efforts to help better understand the many and various needs of different communities and cultures. 

Dr. Tran is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a Psychologist at the Lifespan Physicians Group, where she provides training and education to Brown psychology residents and outpatient behavioral health care to adults with a wide range of presenting problems. Her clinical focus is on treating mood and anxiety disorders with an emphasis on providing evidenced-based patient-centered care. Additionally, she is interested in increasing efforts towards suicide awareness and prevention in the community. She previously worked as a research therapist on the Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation Study (ED-SAFE) providing follow-up interventions for individuals at high risk for suicide. Her research has been focused on understanding how basic cognitive processes and individual differences in emotion regulation increase vulnerability to, maintain, and hinder recovery from emotional disorders. She is also interested in examining the role of social media on emotion regulation and its subsequent impact on emotional well-being.

Moira Varone is a clinical informatics nurse at Butler Hospital. She works with staff in all clinical settings to ensure that the patient electronic health record (EHR) follows all regulatory and risk requirements for documentation and makes the necessary changes in the record to reflect those needs. Regulatory requirements are constantly getting updated making it necessary to work with different groups within the hospital to ensure those updates make it into the EHR. Her clinical experience includes over 30 years at Butler in different positions including as a nurse manager working closely with Quality and Performance Improvement as well as the Medical Records Committee and Risk Management.

Dr. Rabasco is a suicide research T32 postdoctoral 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. She completed her clinical psychology internship at Brown University and received her PhD in clinical psychology from Fordham University in 2023. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Rabasco is collaborating with a number of CRISP members on completed, ongoing, and planned projects, including several federally funded grants. Dr. Rabasco’s research interests include suicide, serious mental illness, treatment development and implementation, and the role of social and societal factors in suicide risk, including minority stressors, social isolation, and internalized stigma.

Dr. Tezanos is a T32 postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University upon completing her clinical psychology residency at Brown University in the Clinical Child Track. As a postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Tezanos collaborates with many CRISP members on ongoing projects. Dr. Tezanos’ own research interests include studying and improving the assessment and prediction of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth populations. With the mentorship of Dr. Jennifer Wolff and Dr. Anthony Spirito, her current research is focused on using multiple units of analysis to develop a comprehensive characterization of child-caregiver conflict and its association with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children. 

Gemma Wallace, PhD is a T32 postdoctoral research fellow at Brown University. She is currently working with research mentors Leslie Brick, Ph.D. and Jessica Peters, Ph.D. in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Broadly, her line of research investigates risk and resiliency for suicidality and co-occurring health-risk behaviors, including non-suicidal self-injury and substance use. Her previous research has examined how proximal and distal factors influence these outcomes in both adolescent and adult samples. Current projects at Brown include ecological momentary assessment studies examining how affect and emotion regulation dynamics influence risk for suicide in real-time.