Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Hannah Carlon graduated cum laude from Suffolk University, earning a B.S. in psychology with a minor in sociology. During and after her undergraduate studies, she worked as a research coordinator at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Recovery Research Institute on research focused on treatment and recovery from substance use disorder. In 2020, she joined the University of New Mexico’s clinical psychology doctoral program under the mentorship of Drs. Margo Hurlocker and Katie Witkiewitz, where her graduate research program centered around strengths-based and community-oriented approaches to substance use disorder treatment and recovery. Through her graduate work, Hannah obtained funding from national entities to support her research: she received a Doctoral Student Small Grant from the Research Society on Alcohol to support her master’s thesis, and her dissertation project was supported by a F31 fellowship from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Hannah’s research on compassionate, harm-reduction centered approaches to substance use disorder recovery has been recognized for its innovation by international research societies like the Society for the Study of Addiction. In 2025, Hannah began her pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship within the Adult Track at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she works under the mentorship of Drs. Morganne Kraines and Ana Abrantes on research related to mindfulness-based treatments. After completing internship, Hannah is thrilled to continue her training at Brown’s School of Public Health in the Center for Addiction & Disease Risk Exacerbation. Hannah extends her gratitude to her family, mentors, brilliant cohort mates, and friends.