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Date February 7, 2025
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DPHB Celebrates Newly Appointed and Promoted Faculty

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DPHB Chair Audrey Tyrka, M.D., Ph.D., (right) congratulated junior faculty on their promotions.

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Athene Ka Wing Lee, Ph.D., (left) with Ted Huey, M.D., (right) who detailed the accomplishments that led to her promotion as Associate Professor, Clinician Educator.

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Beth McQuaid, Ph.D., ABPP, celebrated the promotion of Jennifer Wolff, Ph.D., to the rank of Professor, Clinician Educator.

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Mustafa Surti, M.D., (right) introduced newly appointed faculty employed at Care New England.

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Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., (right) reminisced about the day Jared Saletin, Ph.D. (left) first arrived at her lab. Saletin was promoted to Associate Professor, Research Scholar Track.

Faculty of the Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (DPHB) gathered at The Warren Alpert Medical School Thursday evening to welcome new colleagues and honor faculty who had been promoted in the past year. In 2024, 44 clinicians and researchers were appointed to the DPHB faculty and 49 were promoted to higher rank on the strength of their achievements. 

Promotions

Academic Faculty Promotions

Leslie Ann D. Brick, PhD
Associate Professor, Research Scholar Track

Alethea Desrosiers, PhD
Associate Professor (Research)

Stephanie P. Goldstein, PhD
Associate Professor (Research)

Christopher D. Houck, PhD
Professor, Research Scholar Track

Kathleen Kemp, PhD
Associate Professor, Research Scholar Track

Kirsten Langdon, PhD
Associate Professor (Research)

Lindsay M. Orchowski, PhD 
Professor, Research Scholar Track

Jared Saletin, PhD
Associate Professor, Research Scholar Track

Stephanie Shepard Umaschi, PhD
Associate Professor, Teaching Scholar Track

Clinical Faculty Promotions

Sibel Algon, MD
Associate Professor, Clinician Educator

Kristy Dalrymple, PhD
Professor, Clinician Educator

Jennifer Hellmuth, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor

Athene Ka Wing Lee, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinician Educator

Mirabelle Mattar, MD
Associate Professor, Clinician Educator

Margaret R. Paccione-Dyslewski, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor

Pamela Steadman-Wood, PhD
Clinical Professor

Gerald M. Tarnoff, MD
Clinical Associate Professor

Jennifer Wolff, PhD
Professor, Clinician Educator

Junior Promotions

Micheline R. Anderson, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Corrine Bart, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Kimberly Chapman, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Meghan Collier, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Jennifer Cueto, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Brooke DeWitt, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Joseph Donahue, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Caroline Golski, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Miyah Grant, PsyD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Emily Hallowell, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Molly Hedrick, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Erik Hood, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Mostafa Khalil, MD, MRCPsych - Clinical Assistant Professor
Bryana E. Killion, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Jennifer Y. Kim, MD, JD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Kathryn Lachance, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Thomas Lavin, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Sarah McHugh, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Rachel Olfson, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Timothy Owens, MA, LMHC - Senior Teaching Associate
Michelle Pievsky, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Loreen Pirnie, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Amy Rasmussen, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Dana Rosen, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Virtue Sankoh, PhD - Assistant Professor, Clinician Educator
Lindsay Steinzor, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Kelli L. Sullivan, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Rebecca Troeger, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Uche Ugorji, DO, JD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Natalia Villa Hernandez, PsyD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Wagner, MD, MPH - Clinical Assistant Professor

Appointments

Academic Faculty Appointments

Ariana Albanese, PhD - Assistant Professor
Chelsie Benca-Bachman, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Madeline Benz, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Benjamin L. Berey, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Zihuan Cao, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Grace Cushman, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Sarah E. Dreyer-Oren, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Katelyn Fox, PhD - Instructor (Research)
Matthew Howe, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor
Gabriela López, PhD - Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Olsen, MD - Assistant Professor
Allison Stumper, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Elizabeth Tampke, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Katherine M. Tezanos, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)
Anna J. Yeo, PhD - Assistant Professor (Research)

Clinical Faculty Appointments

Raja Ramis Akhtar, MD - Clinical Instructor
Maggie Allen, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Daisy G. Bassen, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Courtnie Beaubian, MD - Clinical Instructor
Danielle Cohn, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Kate Cummings, MA, LMHC - Teaching Associate
Helen Day, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Susan E. Enck, PhD - Clinical Instructor 
Cherilyn Freitas, RN, NP - Teaching Associate
Federico Gomez Bernal, MD - Clinical Instructor
Emma J. Gosselin, PsyD - Clinical Instructor
Hannah Herc, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Amy Kaye, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Shereen Khoo, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Salma Khshaiboon, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Lingyue Lu, PsyD - Clinical Instructor
Sharaya McFadden, PsyD - Clinical Instructor
Krystal I. Morrison, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Shivana Naidoo, MD - Clinical Instructor
Jennifer M. Oswald, PhD - Clinical Instructor 
Kayla E. Sall, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Karina Sanders, MD - Clinical Instructor
Jessica Soto, MD - Clinical Instructor
Cazzie Steinzor, PhD - Clinical Instructor
Jennifer Stockwood, PsyD - Clinical Instructor
Pedro F. Tactacan, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor
Samantha M. Taylor, MD - Clinical Instructor
Paul M. Wallace, MD - Clinical Instructor
Kristen Wesbecher, PhD - Clinical Assistant Professor

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