Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Lesley A. Norris, Ph.D. (Rhode Island Hospital, 6/30/23-6/29/25) graduated summa cum laude with honors in psychology from Boston College. She completed her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with a concentration in quantitative methods, at Temple University under the mentorship of Dr. Philip C. Kendall. Her dissertation, funded by a NIMH National Research Service Award, used machine-learning to identify predictors and moderators of outcome in a concatenated dataset of ten Randomized Controlled Trials examining youth anxiety treatments and in a real-world clinical sample. She completed her pre-doctoral internship within the Child Track at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She continued at Brown as a postdoctoral fellow within the Research Fellowship Program on the NIMH Child Mental Health T32 under the mentorship of Dr. Kristen Benito at the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center (PARC) at Bradley Hospital. Dr. Norris is grateful for the exceptional training she received at Brown, as well as the opportunity to work alongside a team of colleagues PARC who share her investment in optimizing treatments for youth and families with anxiety-based disorders through the integration of clinical care, research, and training. Following graduation, Dr. Norris is thrilled to stay at PARC as a Research Faculty. She is deeply grateful to her mentors, both current and past, for their invaluable guidance throughout her training. She would also like to express her gratitude to her amazing husband, daughter, family, and friends for their constant support.