Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Megan Bradson graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Penn State University’s Schreyer Honors College. Following graduation, she worked as a research assistant at the National Institutes of Health. She then returned to Penn State University to pursue her doctoral degree in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in clinical neuropsychology, under the mentorship of Dr. Peter Arnett. Her dissertation examined predictors of treatment response following an online cognitive behavioral therapy program for depression and examined the effects of this intervention on cognition in people with multiple sclerosis. This research was supported by funding from Penn State’s Research and Graduate Studies Office and the Foundation for Rehabilitation Psychology’s Leonard Diller Dissertation Award in Neurorehabilitation. During her clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, she worked with Drs. Seth Margolis and Jennifer Davis to conduct a mixed methods study examining the effects of social connectedness on psychosocial outcomes following an online stigma self-management program in people with epilepsy. Megan is incredibly grateful for the exceptional training she has received on internship from her clinical supervisors, Drs. Nicole McLaughlin, Jennifer Davis, Seth Margolis, and Kristen Wesbecher. She is thrilled to continue her training at Brown as a postdoctoral fellow in Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Training Program (CNSP). Megan would like to thank her family, partner, friends, and mentors for their endless support. She is proud to be a first-generation college graduate and the first person in her family to earn a doctorate.