Postdoctoral fellow Linda E. Guzman, Ph.D., is one of six winners nationwide of the 2024 Postdoctoral Health Psychology Award for Clinical Excellence from the Society for Health Psychology. The award’s monetary prize is provided to offset costs related to the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP), a required exam for clinical licensure.

“I am grateful for the support the Society for Health Psychology provides to psychologists at all career stages,” Guzman said. “With the high demand for bilingual Spanish-English psychologists in Rhode Island, the Society’s support is helping me become fully licensed in the state.”

Guzman has made culturally responsive health care, particularly among Latinx populations, a focus of her research and training. In 2021, she received an award from the National Latinx Psychological Association for her dissertation on improving depression screening validity in Latinx people in the United States. The following year, Guzman was awarded Fellow of the Month honors from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for improving access to integrated health psychology in a clinic serving a large refugee population.

Guzman completed her internship in Brown's Clinical Psychology Training Programs and is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship in implementation science with the BRIDGE program. She has become certified as a bilingual Spanish/English clinician to serve patients in her clinical placement at Hasbro Medicine Pediatrics Primary Care Clinic. Guzman plans to continue her work in clinical service and applied research, specializing in Latinx and other traditionally underserved groups in primary care behavioral health.