Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Kira M. Alexander, Ph.D. (E.P. Bradley Hospital, 8/28/23-8/27/25) attended Benedictine College, where she received three research grants to study microbiology, immunology, and cognitive psychology. She graduated from Benedictine College as a Discovery Research Scholar with a B.S. in biology and a B.A. in psychology. After graduation, she managed a psychology laboratory at the University of Kansas, where she trained researchers in electroencephalography and managed industrial-organizational psychology and neuropsychology studies. Dr. Alexander attended the University of Central Arkansas, where she received her educational specialist degree. Her dissertation was an in-depth program evaluation of an intervention for at-risk students. She co-founded the university's first Registered Student Organization for first-generation college students and, as president, received the Registered Student Organization of the Year award. Dr. Alexander was the first graduate student to receive the Bear CLAWS award for her work prioritizing at-risk populations. She completed her clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship with the APA-accredited Hawaii Psychology Internship Consortium through the Big Island Department of Education. Dr. Alexander graduated from the University of Central Arkansas as a Hammill Institute Fellow with her Ph.D. in school psychology. She then completed her APA-accredited Clinical Child Psychology Specialty Program postdoctoral fellowship with Addiction and High-Risk Behaviors specialization through The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She will transition to faculty and lead clinical psychologist of the adolescent inpatient unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Alexander extends the greatest gratitude, love, and appreciation for her supervisors, friends, and family who have supported her throughout her academic career.