Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Emily Beckmann, Ph.D. (Rhode Island Hospital, 7/29/24-7/28/25) graduated with a B.S. in psychology from the University of Cincinnati, magna cum laude, Distinguished Honors Scholar designation, and honors in psychology in 2017. She completed doctoral training in clinical psychology at the University of Cincinnati. Her dissertation examined provider experiences with adolescents with chronic pain and eating disorders. Emily completed her clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University within the Child Track, specializing in pediatric psychology. She worked under the research mentorship of Dr. Melissa Pielech and published several manuscripts on the topics of parenting, pediatric chronic pain, and eating disorders. Emily was also awarded first-place poster at Brown’s Mind Brain Research Day. She continued her training at Brown as a pediatric psychology fellow, rotating at Hasbro Children’s Hospital on the psychiatry consult-liaison service and in the med-psych partial hospitalization program. She spearheaded quality improvement projects aimed at improving family meal education on the inpatient adolescent medicine service and developed standard operating procedures in inpatient and partial settings to improve consistency in family-based treatment. She was awarded an anti-racism grant from the Society of Pediatric Psychology to examine eating behaviors in youth with sickle cell. In August, Emily will start her position as lead psychologist in the brain gut health program at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is grateful for the exceptional training she received at Brown. She would like to thank her mentor, Dr. Pielech, the CL and PHP teams, family, and friends for their ongoing support.