Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Kathryn “Katie” Parisi, Ph.D. (E.P. Bradley Hospital, 8/7/23-8/5/25) graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island, with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and French Language & Literature. She then provided home-based behavioral services in Rhode Island for several years, where she developed a strong interest in dissemination of mental health treatments for youth. Katie pursued her master’s degree in psychology at Boston University before working as a clinical research coordinator at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She pursued her doctoral degree at the University of Arkansas where she received the Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship award. Katie’s dissertation focused on examining data from the dissemination project she helped support back in Mississippi. Fittingly, Katie completed her clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. After receiving her Ph.D., she began her postdoctoral fellowship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University within the Clinical Child Psychology Specialty Program’s Early Childhood Collaborative/Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center. In the Fall, Katie will be serving as lecturer and instructor for undergraduate courses in developmental psychopathology and research skills in the Psychology Departments at Brandeis University and Harvard University. Katie thanks her supervisors, Drs. Rebecca Newland Kilch, Rebecca Silver, Christine Low, and Rachel Herman, and also the many people who supported her in this journey as a parent in academia. Her work is dedicated to her two children, Cooper and Revan, and to all children, as she believes “there’s no such thing as other people’s children, they are all our children.”