Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Shelley Gresko, Ph.D. (Rhode Island Hospital, 9/2/25-9/1/26) graduated with a B.A. in anthropology from Brown University. She completed doctoral training in clinical psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder under the mentorship of Dr. Soo Rhee. She was supported by a T32 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and received an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP. Her master’s thesis, examining parenting characteristics and adolescent substance use, won CU Boulder’s Carol J. Becker Lynch Award for excellence in behavioral genetics research. Her dissertation focused on the common genetic influences on subjective experiences of substances and substance use disorders. Shelley completed her clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship at the University of Rochester Medical Center within the Child and Adolescent Track. She worked under the research mentorship of Drs. Ian Cero, Katie Rice, and Suzie Noronha to examine adolescent help-seeking and suicide and pica prevalence in pediatric patients with sickle cell. Shelley completed her post-doctoral training at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University as a pediatric psychology fellow. She gained invaluable experience rotating at Hasbro Children’s Hospital psychiatry consult-liaison service and in the med-psych inpatient hospitalization program, supervised by Drs. Margaret Mannix and Rawya Al-Jabari. Under Dr. Sarah Thomas's research mentorship, she examined adolescent cannabis use, psychotic-like experiences, and neurobehavioral reward processing. Shelley is very grateful for the exceptional guidance of her mentors and supervisors and thanks her friends, family, pets (Egg, Opal, and Itza), and partner Zach for their love and support.