For over 25 years, and with continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health, Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D., ABPP has examined interpersonal models of internalizing symptoms and health risk behaviors among adolescents, with a specific focus on the unique role of off- and on-line peer relationships in the developmental psychopathology of depression and self-injury. He is a board-certified clinical psychologist and has published over 250 scientific manuscripts and 12 books. Mitch has advised/consulted with numerous government agencies, international agencies, nonprofits, institutes, and for-profit industries.

At APA, Mitch served as the Chief Science Officer, responsible for leading the association’s science agenda and advocating for the application of psychological research and knowledge in settings including academia, government, industry, and the law. As Chief of Psychology, Mitch led the integration of APA’s work in science, practice, education, and applied psychology. Prior to APA, Mitch served as the Director of Clinical Psychology at UNC and Yale University, the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and the Assistant Dean for Honors Carolina.

Tony Spirito’s holiday party on Thayer eating hot dogs, sailing with Peter Monti, working in the basement at Bradley Hospital, and mostly all of the amazing interns and postdocs that were in our training cohort!  Loved it all!!!!

Dr. Rodriguez-Seijas is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Science area at the University of Michigan. As PI of the Stigma, Psychopathology, & Assessment (SPLAT) Lab, his research interests lie in understanding dimensional models of psychopathology, and applying them to improve assessment, conceptualization, and intervention among marginalized populations. His research most recently has been focused on understanding factors related to elevated prevalence of borderline personality disorder among LGBTQ+ populations. Dr. Rodriguez-Seijas’s clinical training lies in providing evidence-based, affirming interventions for sexual and gender minority individuals. Dr. Rodriguez-Seijas was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. He completed his undergraduate training in psychology at the University of the West Indies, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Stony Brook University. He completed his predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University in the Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) program.

Getting Rhode Island Hospital to purchase beer pong balls for me…for clinical reasons I promise!

So many great memories, but as a Triple Boarder, many of my most memorable moments were when the three areas of training came together in a clinical experience: My first experience with a person with psychosis, the mother of a patient in the NICU my second month of residency; the child psych inpatient child at Bradley who I had to admit to Hasbro for autonomic instability; and a patient (and her family) in my continuity clinic who taught me that Rett's is simpler to identify on board questions than when a family experiences housing instability and family violence. And with all of those memories, the teams of trainees, faculty, nurses, and hospital staff who were part of the care team are strong parts of the memory too!

Dr. Eva Woodward is a clinical health psychologist and implementation scientist. In her research, she uses implementation science and practice, community engaged research, and mixed methods to improve equitable health care delivery for groups experiencing disparities and oppression, such as racially minoritized, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and low-income individuals. Her work focuses on implementing interventions in hospital settings. She complements her research as a clinician in primary care mental health integration. She is also a trainer for the Implementation Facilitation Learning Hub operated by Behavioral Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative through the Veterans Health Administration.

Dr. Woodward currently works at the VA Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research (Little Rock, Arkansas) and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Originally from rural Oklahoma, she trained at Suffolk University in Boston (PhD) and Brown University in Providence (internship/residency). Dr. Woodward completed the two-year Advanced Fellowship Program at the VA South Central Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center in Little Rock before becoming faculty. She also graduated from the Implementation Research Institute fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis and the NIH Health Disparities Research Institute.

I can still feel the influence of the talented mentors who trained me in the way I frame something to a client, how I organize particular sections of my research grants, and how I appraise evidence in murky situations. The Behavioral Medicine supervisors at the Providence VA and the Miriam Hospital are so skilled. My VA psychiatry consultation liaison supervisor was Dr. Al Sirota, and although now retired, continues to offer his wisdom from this 2015 quote: “Nothing sensible can ever get done...I don't meant at the VA, I'm talking about planet Earth.”

Dr. Elizabeth D'Amico is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND and a licensed clinical psychologist. She is nationally recognized for her work developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for adolescents. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). She has developed and evaluated MI interventions for young people in teen court, middle schools, homeless shelters, and primary care. She has also developed MI interventions for Native American adolescents and emerging adults in urban settings that integrate traditional healing. She has a new virtual MI intervention that uses a strength based culturally grounded approach for Alaska Native young people focused on suicide prevention and alcohol use. She also has a 17-year longitudinal study that examines substance use patterns from age 11 to age 28 among a large sample of racially and ethnically diverse young people. D'Amico has received the Mentor of the Year award at RAND twice, in 2009 and 2018, for her work mentoring junior and mid-level investigators. She was made a fellow of the American Psychological Association for Division 50 (Society of Addiction Psychology) in 2016 to recognize her work in the field of addiction.

Going sailing with Peter Monti and Anthony Spirito one weekend with our intern class. It was an adventure!!

Dr. Novick received his MD and PhD degrees from the University of South Dakota, where he conducted research on the consequences of adolescent social stress on cortical dopamine development. He subsequently entered psychiatry residency training at Brown in 2015, where he was part of the Research Training Program, and worked under Dr Audrey Tyrka, where his work focused on the effects of early life stress on reward processing and executive function.  At Brown, he was part of the NIMH’s Outstanding Resident Award Program and received the Martin Keller Award for Most Outstanding Graduating Resident in General Psychiatry. Following graduation, he became faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where he is currently Assistant Professor and works as a reproductive psychiatrist in the Center for Women’s Behavioral Health and Wellness and is medical director of the CU Ketamine Program. His research focuses on two main areas 1) the effects of sex steroids on affective function and 2) the evaluation of new drug treatments for depression, specifically psychedelics. He has a K23 career development award from NICHD to study the neurobiology of hormonal contraception. In 2021, Dr Novick began establishing the infrastructure for human psychedelic research in CU’s Department of Psychiatry, and is now investigator on multiple trials evaluating the effects of psilocybin in various psychiatric disorders. 

For my first rotation as an intern, I was assigned to inpatient unit at Rhode Island Hospital with the great, Gabor Keitner.​ On my first day, I woke up extra early, and I remember laying out my stethoscope, reflex hammer, notebook, multiple pens and pocket version of the DSM-5. I put on a bowtie and my brand new white coat. I took a selfie, making sure to show off the Brown insignia on my left shoulder, and I sent it to my parents. Half-way through the 20 minute walk from my apartment to the Jane Brown Building at RIH, I got caught in a Providence summer downpour without any umbrella or jacket. So I showed up on the unit absolutely drenched. Little did I know, it would be this exact combination excitement, pride, and humility that would characterize the next four years of my training at Brown. I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.