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Britt Evans, PhD
Britt received her PhD in June 2020 under the mentorship of Evan Forman, PhD. Britt received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Amherst College in 2011, and worked as a research coordinator at the National Institute of Mental Health prior to beginning graduate school. Britt completed her predoctoral internship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in the Clinical Child Psychology Track. Britt’s interests include novel treatments for pediatric feeding/eating disorders, parent training, and child anxiety disorders, and her dissertation project developed and piloted a novel parent coaching intervention for healthy eating in children using video-conference technology. Britt will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Chicago Psychotherapy in the fall of 2020 focusing on evidence-based treatment for youth with anxiety concerns.
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Lauren Bradley, PhD
Lauren Bradley received her PhD in May 2015. She received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Biological Basis of Behavior with a minor in Nutrition. Her research interests include acceptance-based therapies for the treatment of obesity and eating disorders. She is particularly interested in the treatment of post-bariatric surgery weight regain. She is now an assistant professor at Rush University Medical Center.
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Greer Raggio, PhD
Greer Raggio received her PhD under the mentorship of Meghan Butryn, PhD. Greer earned an undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University and a Master in Public Health at Columbia University. She is interested in behavioral medicine broadly and more specifically, obesity and associated public health issues, psycho-oncology, and women's mental health. Greer is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Boston VA.
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Jena Shaw, PhD
Jena Shaw received her PhD in May 2015. Her thesis used behavioral outcomes to measure the efficacy of an ACT-based treatment for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in an inpatient setting and her dissertation examined the impact of implicit attitudes on soda consumption. She is now an assistant professor of Psychology in the Psychiatry at the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Monika Gaspar
Monika Gaspar received her BA in Psychology from Ohio State University in 2012 and her MS from Drexel University. She is interested in acceptance-based interventions broadly and more specifically, the relationship between depressive symptoms and the effectiveness of treatments for obesity.
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Marie Colasanti, MS
Marie Colasanti received her MS in May 2015. She now coaches groups and individuals to achieve their weight loss goals, and continues to lead weight loss groups at Drexel.
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Renee Mikorski, MS
Renee Mikorski received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Biology from Boston University and her master’s from Drexel University. During her time at Drexel, Renee developed a strong interest in body image and media images of women and, for her master’s thesis, designed a cognitive defusion intervention to buffer the effects of these images. Renee is currently in the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Tennessee studying LGBT mental health, body image, sexual objectification of women, and feminist therapy.
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Megan Parker, MS
Megan received her Master’s degree from Drexel University in 2019. While at Drexel she worked under the mentorship of Adrienne Juarascio, PhD and coordinated the Continuous Glucose Monitoring Study. She graduated in 2017 from The Pennsylvania State University at University Park with a BS in Psychology. Megan is currently pursuing her PhD in Clinical and Medical Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Her research interests include examining how dysfunctional reward processes contribute to the development of disordered eating and improving prevention interventions for eating disorders in children and adolescents.
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Madeline Lagacey
Madeline Lagacey graduated from the BS/MS program in Psychology. Her research interests include evaluation and development of treatment strategies in an effort to reduce relapse rates as well as eating disorders and body image in female athletes. She plans to pursue a doctoral degree in clinical psychology in the future.
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Caitlin Loyka
Caitlin obtained her BA in Psychology from The College of New Jersey in May 2017 and her MS from Drexel University. Caitlin’s current research interests include third-wave Cognitive Behavioral treatments of overweight and obesity, emotional eating, and the role of self-compassion and self-criticism in weight loss treatment and outcomes.
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Stephanie Goldstein
Stephanie Goldstein graduated from the PhD program in Psychology. Her research interests involve the development and evaluation of technology-based interventions for health-related behavior change. In particular, she has been heavily involved in the development of a smartphone app that is designed to predict lapses from a weight control diet.
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Stephanie Kerrigan
Stephanie Kerrigan received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Rowan University and her PhD from Drexel University. Prior to beginning graduate school, she served as a research coordinator for two years at Drexel University. She is interested in health behavior change, particularly adherence to behavioral recommendations, and applying advanced methodologies and statistics to health behavior research. Her thesis examined distress tolerance and executive function as moderators of the relationship between intention and behavior in individuals enrolled in a weight loss program.
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Leah Schumacher
Leah Schumacher worked under the mentorship of Meghan Butryn, PhD. She received her BS in Psychology from the University of Dayton in 2011. She completed Drexel's MS in Psychology program in 2014 before beginning her doctoral studies. Her research interests include the development of novel behavioral treatments for obesity and eating disorders, ecologically valid methods of assessment, how individuals perceive and respond to failures in adhering to health behavior change goals, and how social factors and identity impact eating and physical activity.
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Helen Murray
Helen was a doctoral student, working under the mentorship of Adrienne Juarascio, PhD. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Georgetown University in 2011. Prior to beginning graduate school, Helen worked as a research coordinator at Children’s National Medical Center and then in the Eating Disorders Clinical & Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research interests include the development and evaluation of methods to detect and treat individuals with eating disorders, feeding disorders, and functional gastrointestinal conditions.
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Jocelyn Remmert
Jocelyn was a doctoral student working under the mentorship of Meghan Butryn, PhD. She graduated in 2013 from Middlebury College with a BA in Psychology, and then spent two years as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital in Behavioral Medicine. Her research interests include evidence-based interventions for obesity, particularly at the intersection of primary care, and physical activity promotion.
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Sophie Abber
Sophie Abber was a graduate student working under the mentorship of Evan Forman, PhD and Stephanie Manasse, PhD. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Neuroscience and Anthropology with a minor in Chemistry from the University of San Diego in 2019. While at USD, Sophie worked on several projects related to the stigmatization of eating disorders and also conducted a grant-funded project on the contemporary relevance of the Salem Witch Trials. She is particularly interested in the neurobiology of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and creating interventions to help individuals with treatment-resistant eating disorders.
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Olivia Clancy
Olivia Clancy was a graduate student working under the joint mentorship of Adrienne Juarascio, PhD and Paakhi Srivastava, PhD. She graduated from New York University in 2020 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Psychology and a concentration in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. During her time at NYU, Olivia used machine learning analysis to better understand social media trends relating to anorexia nervosa. Her research interests include integrating technology into treatment and assessing treatment efficacy.
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Rebecca Crochiere
Rebecca Crochiere was a graduate student working under the mentorship of Evan Forman, PhD. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Middlebury College in 2014. Prior to beginning graduate school, she worked as a research assistant at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth College. Her research interests include using advanced technologies, specifically passive sensor technology, and statistical techniques to model the relations between momentary risk factors and maladaptive eating behaviors.
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Christine Call
Christine was a PhD student working under the mentorship of Meghan Butryn, PhD. She is currently completing her clinical internship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Prior to coming to Drexel, Christine received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Princeton University and then worked as a research coordinator at the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders at New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her research interests include identifying predictors of outcome in obesity and eating disorder interventions with the long-term goal of tailoring interventions to meet the needs of individuals who experience suboptimal outcomes in existing treatments. She is particularly interested in elucidating the role of weight history and physical activity in intervention outcomes.
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Diane Dallal
Diane Dallal was a doctoral student working under the mentorship of Evan Forman, PhD. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, she worked as a research coordinator at the UCLA Anxiety and Depression Research Center. Diane’s primary research interests are focused on developing and improving treatments for obesity and eating disorders. In particular, she is interested in the use of acceptance-based treatments to understand and intervene on cognitive and affective processes that maintain unhealthy eating.
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Mary Martinelli
Mary Martinelli was a doctoral student working under the mentorship of Meghan Butryn, PhD. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of Maryland in 2011 and her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Towson University in 2013. Prior to starting at Drexel, she worked as a psychology associate and supervisor at the Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Her research interests include technology-based interventions for obesity and eating disorders, and using novel assessment methods to understand how neuropsychological factors relate to health behavior.
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Hannah Dart
Hannah Dart is originally from Australia, and has also lived in China and Toledo, Ohio. She attended Southern Methodist University where she was a varsity rower, and majored in Applied Physiology and Health Management and English. Through the Applied Physiology major, she became interested in health behaviors and health promotion, and is particularly interested in the utilization of technology to improve compliance to health recommendations. She has worked in SMU’s Health Psychology and Anxiety and Depression labs on mindfulness, and depression and gait studies. She enjoys reading, playing video games, hiking, baking, writing and reading.
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Karly Derrigo
Karly was a MS student working under the mentorship of Drs. Erica LaFata and Meghan Butryn. She attended The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she graduated with a bachelor's in science in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. After graduation, she worked as a mental health counselor at an eating disorder clinic, where she became interested in disordered eating behaviors. Her research interests focus on food addiction and binge eating behaviors.
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