Current Fellows of the Training Program
Since its inception in 1987, 100 fellows have completed one or more years of post-doctoral training in our program.
2007
Lynn Hernandez received her Ph.D. in Life-Span Developmental Psychology from Florida International University in 2007. Her primary research interests focus on understanding the roles psychosocial developmental variables and cultural factors play in adolescents’ substance use trajectories. She is also interested in understanding how such variables moderate treatment outcomes in order to examine the developmental and cultural appropriateness of interventions for adolescents. As a postdoctoral fellow she is interested in making cultural adaptations to an intervention for substance using Hispanic/Latino adolescents.
Bettina Hoeppner received her Ph.D. in experimental Psychology in 2007 and her M.S. in Statistics in 2005, both from the University of Rhode Island. Her primary research interest is the use of advanced longitudinal methodology in understanding and documenting addictive behavior and its change, including both nomothetic and idiographic approaches. She is interested in studying the complex relationship of important substance use factors on the population level measured over few measurements of time, as well as the more fine-grained analyses possible when behaviors and related factors are tracked more closely over time. During her postdoctoral fellowship, Bettina seeks to complement her training in addictive behavior. Much of her previous work has focused on smoking prevention and cessation, and she will expand this training to gain a better understanding of other addictive behaviors, particularly alcohol use, and the factors associated with them.
Molly Magill received her Ph.D. in Social Work Research from Boston College in 2007. Her primary research area is treatment process in psychosocial intervention with adult substance use disorders. Molly has a particular interest in examining mechanisms of action in evidence-based treatments, and distinguishing elements of treatment process that are model specific from those that are common to intervention with substance using populations. As a postdoctoral fellow, Molly will focus on measurement of alcohol treatment process through observational coding systems.
2008
Nadine Mastroleo received her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from The Pennsylvania State University in 2008. Her research interests include college student alcohol use, peer counseling interventions aimed at high risk college student drinking populations, and counselor training approaches in brief, empirically supported treatments. In addition, she seeks to investigate student-athlete drinking behaviors and prevention and intervention approaches aimed at this population.
2009
Lyndsay Orchowski
Margie Skeer
Kristen Underhill
Sara Becker
Jessica Nargiso
Marlene Chait
Richard Mulligan
Jason Ramirez (predoc)