Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Elizabeth (Betsy) Tampke, Ph.D. (The Miriam Hospital, 8/15/22-9/29/24) graduated with a B.A. from the University of Kansas in psychology and creative writing. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical child psychology in the Clinical Child Psychology Program at the University of Kansas where she was mentored by Dr. Paula Fite. Her research in graduate school focused on the etiological factors and developmental trajectory of proactive and reactive aggression in youth. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Boys Town site of the Nebraska Consortium in Professional Psychology, where she worked with high-risk, system-involved youth and she began to be interested in the intersection of violence and trauma. Betsy was thrilled to move to Rhode Island to receive training in intervention development, grant writing, and analyses with clinical trials under the mentorship of Drs. Christopher Houck and David Barker in the Research Fellowship Program. She was grateful to be offered a position on the Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) T32 for her second year of fellowship, during which she also began to be mentored by Dr. Lindsay Orchowski and further developed research expertise in trauma. Betsy is excited to be staying on as Research Faculty at Brown where she will be funded by the CDC to develop a trauma-informed, cross-cutting violence prevention intervention for youth receiving intensive mental health services. She is grateful to the team of mentors who have helped her get to where she is today and to her incredibly supportive family and husband. It takes a village to raise a researcher!