In July, fifteen members of the Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior faculty received promotions: eight to the rank of professor and seven to the rank of associate professor. Learn more about their work:

Professor Promotions

A. Rani Elwy, PhD, promoted to Professor, Research Scholar Track
Dr. A. Rani Elwy is Founding Director of the Implementation Science Core in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is also Co-Director of Implementation Science in the Biomedical Informatics Core of the Advance Clinical and Translation Research (Advance-CTR) at Brown. In these roles, Dr. Elwy provides consultation on implementation science proposals, develops and conducts seminars and workshops each semester on critical topics in dissemination and implementation science, and serves as PI/Site PI or Co-Investigator on a variety of grants funded by NIH, PCORI, VA and CDC. She also serves as Implementation Scientist in the Biobehavioral Sciences Core of the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Dr. Elwy is an active mentor to many PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty members seeking to build careers in implementation science. In 2021, Dr. Elwy was elected to fellowship in the Society of Behavioral Medicine. 

Tracey Guthrie, MD, promoted to Professor, Clinician Educator
Tracey Guthrie, MD, is the Residency Training Director for the Brown University General Psychiatry Residency Program. Dr. Guthrie is Assistant Dean for Diversity in the Division of Biology and Medicine, Professor of Medical Science, Clinician Educator, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator. Dr. Guthrie graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She continued her training in the Brown Psychiatry Residency Training Program where she was Chief Resident. She joined the Brown faculty in 1999. Dr. Guthrie has been involved with medical student education at Brown since 2002 and psychiatry residency training since 2005.  She has served in many leadership roles within the Department including Associate Clerkship Director and Clerkship Site Director in Psychiatry for Brown medical students; Assistant and Associate Residency Training Director in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Director of the Residency Continuity Clinic. Dr. Guthrie has received several teaching awards, including: The Outstanding Teaching Award, both in Medical Education and in General Psychiatry; The Innovation in Medical Education Award from the Memorial Hospital Internal Medicine Training Program; The Psychiatry Resident Award to Talented and Learned Educators (PRATTLE award); The Triple Board Program Teaching and Advocacy Award; and the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Guthrie serves as a Presidential Appointee to the Executive Council for the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. (2019-present)

Debra Herman, PhD, promoted to Clinical Professor
Dr. Debra Herman recieved her Sc.B. from Brown University and her M.S. and PhD from Northwestern University, and performed her clinical internship at the Boston DVAMC/Tufts University School of Medicine and her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for PTSD – Behavioral Sciences Division Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Herman is a Research Psychologist in the General Medicine Research Unit/Behavioral Medicine and Addictions Research at Butler Hospital. Recent publications include: "Initiating buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder during short-term in-patient 'detoxification': a randomized clinical trial." Addiction, vol. 115, no. 1, 2020, pp. 82-94; "Motivation to Quit Drinking in Individuals Coinfected with HIV and Hepatitis C." AIDS and Behavior, vol. 24, no. 6, 2020, pp. 1709-1716; and "Perceived Behavioral Control and Barriers to Cleaning Skin Before Injecting Drugs." Journal of Addiction Medicine, vol. 14, no. 3, 2020, pp. 231-235. Additionally, Dr. Herman has operated a private practice, the Center for Psychotherapy, since 2005 and serves as a volunteer counselor for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England.

Horacio Hojman, MD, promoted to Clinical Professor
Dr. Hojman is a board certified adult and child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital and Bradley Hospital. Dr. Hojman provides individual and family psychotherapy as well as psychopharmacological treatment. He also provides psychiatric consultation to pediatricians and works with clients from age 5-16. He specializes in treating anxiety disorders including obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, grief, ADHD, tic disorders, trauma and adjustment disorders. He provides medication evaluation and medication management combined with psychotherapy and utilizes both psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Dr. Hojman also specializes in community child psychiatry and school consultation. 

Karen Holler, PhD, promoted to Clinical Professor
Karen Holler, PhD, is a pediatric neuropsychologist with more than 20 years of experience working with children and families to identify and manage cognitive, social, emotional, learning and attention difficulties. She received her M.S. and PhD from the University of Florida. Recent publications include: "Assessing performance validity with the TOMM and automatized sequences task in a pediatric psychiatric inpatient setting," Child Neuropsychology, 2020, pp. 1-16;  "Neurocognitive predictors of length of stay within a children's psychiatric inpatient program," Child Neuropsychology, vol. 26, no. 1, 2020, pp. 129-136; and "The Association Between Neurocognition and Sexual Abuse Within a Children’s Psychiatric Inpatient Program," The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 2020.

Noah Philip, MD, promoted to Professor, Research Scholar Track
Noah S. Philip, MD, received his BSc from McGill University and his MD from Albany Medical College where he graduated AOA and with a Distinction in the Study of Biomedical Ethics. He completed his psychiatry residency training at Brown University, followed by T32 and Neuromodulation Fellowships at Brown. Dr. Philip is the founding Section Chief of Psychiatric Neuromodulation at VA Providence, and is Lead for Mental Health Research at the VA RR&D Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology. Dr. Philip’s laboratory uses new and emerging technologies to understand and treat serious psychiatric disorders, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression, and suicidality. His research has been featured in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative (tDCS+Virtual Reality for PTSD). In June 2021 he received a cooperative study award from NIMH to perform first-in-human studies investigating MRI-guided low intensity focused ultrasound for depression and anxiety (U01 MH123427).
Dr. Philip has received awards and recognition from the American Psychiatric Association, Society for Biological Psychiatry, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and others. He has been funded through independent grants from the VA (Rehabilitation, Clinical Science, and Health Services R&D), NIMH, NIDA, Department of Defense, and through industry and small-business collaborations. He is active in several national organizations, including SOBP and ACNP, and is the past President (2020-2021) of the Psychiatric Research Society. Dr. Philip also plays a significant training and mentoring role at Brown, where he is Associate Director of the NIMH R25 psychiatry resident research training program, and serves as a mentor through national organizations such as the Career Development Institute for Psychiatry. He is committed to action on improving diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Wendy Plante, PhD, promoted to Clinical Professor
Wendy Plante, PhD, is a staff psychologist at the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. Plante is associate clinical director of SibLink, a clinical research program dedicated to the adjustment of healthy siblings to medical, developmental, and psychiatric disorders in their brothers and sisters. Her research focuses on family adjustment to pediatric chronic illness and, specifically, how siblings engage in and are affected by their brothers'/sister's treatment regimens, especially in medical illnesses such as type 1 diabetes. Her clinical interests also include management of stress, anxiety, and pain with children and adolescents.
Plante received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Clark University and her master's and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. After completing a pediatric psychology-focused predoctoral internship at duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE, she completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Brown Medical School. She joined the staff of Rhode Island Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2001.

Susan Ramsey, PhD, promoted to Professor (Research)
Dr. Susan Ramsey's research focuses on the development and testing of novel behavioral interventions to address substance use, HIV prevention, HIV medication adherence, and adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). A current focus of her work is the development and testing of an intervention aimed at promoting the uptake of PrEP among incarcerated women and linkage to community-based PrEP care upon release from incarceration. She is also developing and testing an mHealth facilitated health coaching intervention to improve PrEP adherence. In a recently completed pilot study, a similar mHealth facilitated health coaching intervention aimed at improving HIV medication adherence demonstrated excellent feasibility, acceptability, and promising preliminary efficacy. This intervention is currently being tested in a multi-site trial.

Associate Professor Promotions

Elisabeth Frazier, PhD, promoted to Clinical Associate Professor
Elisabeth Frazier, PhD, completed her postgraduate studies at Ohio University and her psychology fellowship at Brown University. She currently serves as a clinical psychologist at Bradley Hospital's Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program and Adolescent Co-Occurring Disorders Intensive Outpatient Program. She recieved her MA and PhD from Ohio State University and completed her psychology residency and postdoctoral fellowship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. In 2018, she received the Education Committee Award from the Brown University Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – “In recognition of a dedicated faculty member who makes a significant contribution to the educational goals of the residency and fellowship.” In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Frazier serves as co-investigator on the R01, "Brief Individual and Parent Interventions for Marijuana Misuse in Truant Adolescents Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse Role." She serves as co-chair of the Practice Committee of the Acute, Intensive, and Residential Services (AIRS) Special Interest Group (SIG) of Division 53 (Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

Jennifer Herren, PhD, promoted to Associate Professor, Clinician Educator
Jennifer Herren, PhD is a staff psychologist at the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center (PARC). She specializes in the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and exposure therapy in treatment of pediatric anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Dr. Herren is also a senior clinical consultant and trainer in the use of the treatment intervention, Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct Problems (MATCH-ADTC), and serves as a co-investigator on the R01: Quality Assessment in Exposure Therapy. 
Dr. Herren received her BA from Maryville College and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her predoctoral internship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where she gained specific training in pediatric psychology. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship, specializing in child and adolescent psychology, at Judge Baker Children’s Center and Harvard University.  She is an active member of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Her research interests focus on how to effectively disseminate and increase use of evidence-based practices in community practice as well as on the etiology and treatment of comorbid anxiety and depression.

Barbara Jandasek, PhD, promoted to Clinical Associate Professor
Barbara Jandasek, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in pediatric psychology and has been a staff psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital since 2010. She is a clinical supervisor for interns, residents and postdoctoral fellows in clinical psychology and serves as the Supervisor of Training for the Community Asthma Program at Hasbro Children's Hospital. In addition, she provides psychological services in Hasbro's Pediatric Heart Center. Dr. Jandasek's research interests include health disparities, pediatric asthma, cardiology, and obesity, adolescent and young adult development and the transition of responsibility for illness management, qualitative research methods, and intervention development.

Maria Mancebo, PhD, promoted to Associate Professor, Clinician Educator
Dr. Mancebo received a B.A. from Providence College, a M.A from Connecticut College, and a Ph.D. from Hofstra University. Following a clinical internship at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the OCD Research Program at Brown University under the mentorship of Drs. Steven Rasmussen and Jane Eisen. Dr. Mancebo is a clinical psychologist at Butler Hospital and directs the OCD and Anxiety Intensive Outpatient Program.  She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and trains psychology and psychiatry residents in cognitive-behavioral therapies for OCD, anxiety, and compulsive hoarding. Her primary research interests focus on implementing evidence-based therapies in community settings, treatment adherence, and developing behavioral interventions for individuals with OCD that do not currently benefit from treatment.

Nicole McLaughlin, PhD, promoted to Associate Professor, Research Scholar Track
Dr. McLaughlin's background has concentrated on the investigation of changes in clinical outcomes, neuroimaging, and cognitive functioning after neurocircuitry-based interventions. Current research projects include: Principal Investigator, NIMH K23 Career Development Award examining changes in neural connectivity after capsulotomy for intractable OCD; Neuropsychology Coordinator, Co-Investigator, Deep Brain Stimulation for OCD Clinical Trial; Co-Investigator, Conte Center for OCD Research. Primary research interests are in investigating neurosurgical interventions in OCD and in researching cognitive endophenotypes of OCD. She also has ongoing projects in olfaction of Alzheimer's disease and the functional status of Parkinson's disease.

Hwamee Oh, PhD, promoted to Associate Professor, Research Scholar Track
Dr. Hwamee Oh is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences and is also affiliated with Carney Institute for Brain Science. Dr. Oh received her PhD in Biopsychology (with concentration in Human Cognitive Neuroscience) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In her postdoctoral training in Dr. William Jagust’s laboratory in Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC-Berkeley, she studied cognitive, structural, and functional alterations in preclinical older adults with β-amyloid deposition, a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, using amyloid PET, structural MRI, fMRI and neuropsychological tests. Prior to Brown, Dr. Oh was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University (2014-2017) and a Research Assistant Professor at SUNY-Stony Brook (2017-2019). At Brown, Dr. Oh extends her research on cognitive and neural changes due to normal aging and Alzheimer's disease pathology and individual difference factors contributing to the brain aging and cognition relationship using multimodality neuroimaging methods including PET and structural and functional MRI.

Megan Pinkston-Camp, PhD, promoted to Associate Professor, Teaching Scholar Track
Megan Pinkston, M.A., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor (Clinician Educator) of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is also a Clinical Health Psychologist for the Lifespan Physicians Group. She is the director of the Clinical Behavioral Medicine Service of The Immunology Center and provides evidence based therapy to HIV infected patients with syndemic mental health, substance use, and behavioral medicine concerns. She also provides assessment and therapy in the Lifespan Recovery Center. Her research interests include the exploration and development of effective interventions for the syndemics that are related to substance use, primarily stimulants, HIV infection, and mental illness. She has been working in the HIV community for just over 20 years and has worked with HIV care communities from different regions of the US including the South, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and New England. Finally, she is the Behavioral Medicine track coordinator for the Brown Clinical Psychology Internship.