Dominique Phillips is a graduate student in the Child Clinical Psychology program at the University of Miami (matriculated in 2019). She received her undergraduate degree in psychology and minor in human development from the University of Maryland. After graduating, she worked as a research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in the Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, primarily focusing on the etiology and treatment of child anxiety disorders. Her research interests include the development and dissemination of culturally informed, transdiagnostic interventions for emotional concerns in youth. Additionally, she is interested in the cultural, familial, and contextual factors that influence treatment engagement and outcomes, with the hopes of establishing effective evidence-based treatments tailored to address the circumstances of diverse communities.
Thesis: Clinical impairment and service utilization in youth: The influence of perceived barriers on treatment engagement
Dissertation: Informant discrepancies in the treatment of youth internalizing disorders: Implications for clinical outcomes and the effect of measurement based care
Grace Woodard is a graduate student in the Child Clinical Psychology program at the University of Miami (matriculated in 2020). She graduated with a B.S. in psychology from the University of Washington where she completed an honors thesis examining transdiagnostic mechanisms that predict the development of depression and PTSD following trauma exposure. After graduating, she worked as the research coordinator for the Research in Implementation Science and Effectiveness (RISE MH) Lab at the University of Washington, which focuses on implementing evidence-based treatments for common mental health disorders in public settings in the US and globally. Grace is interested in identifying and evaluating scalable implementation strategies to promote high-quality, sustained use of EBTs in public mental health settings.
Thesis: Client, clinician, and implementation predictors of measurement-based care fidelity
Dissertation: Effectiveness of audit and feedback to support implementation of measurement-based care in community mental health settings: a mixed-methods multiple case study
Elizabeth Lane is a graduate student in the Child Clinical Psychology program at the University of Miami (matriculated in 2022). She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Grinnell College. After graduating, she worked as a lab coordinator at the University of California, San Diego between two implementation labs in the psychiatry department, Adapting and Implementing an Integrated Care Model for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Psychiatric Comorbidity (ATTAIN/ATTAIN NAV) and Identifying Quality Indicators Within Multiple EBP Delivery in Child Mental Health Services (ECCA/4KEEPS). More broadly, the labs focused on implementation of measurement based care and evidence-based practices in community health settings. Elizabeth is interested in best practices for disseminating and implementing interventions in community settings as supported by measurement based care and community participatory research. More specifically, she is interested in the use of implementation science to address disparities and increase accessibility for underserved, spanish-speaking communities.
Thesis: Barriers to Measurement-Based Care Implementation: Clinician Behavioral Determinants
Lang Duong is a graduate student in the Child/Family Clinical Psychology program at the University of Miami (matriculated in 2023). She graduated with a B.S. in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduating, she worked as a clinical research coordinator for the Center for Psychotherapy Research at the University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine where their work focused on the examination of the effectiveness and mechanisms of evidence-based interventions and practices, such as measurement-based care, within community settings. Her research interests revolve around the development and dissemination/implementation of culturally sensitive and responsive evidence-based practices for marginalized populations within community mental health settings to address mental health service engagement and outcome disparities within these populations.
Olivia Michael is a graduate student in the Child Clinical Psychology program at the University of Miami (matriculated in 2024). She graduated with a B.S. in Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience and a B.A. in Global Health from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). After graduating, she worked as a research study coordinator at the University of Washington on the Autism Services and Practice Implementation Research in Education (ASPIRE) team, which focuses on understanding the successful implementation of evidence-based practices for autistic youth in schools. Olivia is interested in (1) using community-partnered approaches to identify implementation strategies that promote the adoption and sustainment of evidence-based practices in community service settings; (2) understanding the individual and organizational mechanisms that facilitate quality mental health assessment and treatment for youth with behavioral health conditions; and (3) leveraging user-centered design to develop digital technologies that enhance accessibility, engagement, and outcomes of mental health services.
Catherine Waye is a graduate student in the Child/Family Clinical Psychology program at the University of Miami (matriculated in 2024). She graduated with a B.A. in psychology and a minor in public health from the University of Rochester. After graduating, she remained in Rochester to work as a research assistant in a developmental psychopathology lab led by Dr. Patrick Davies at Mt. Hope Family Center. She then joined the Baker Center for Children and Families in Boston, MA as a Program Assistant. At Baker, Catherine split her time between the Center’s outpatient clinic and training and implementation department. In her role, she provided administrative support to programs focused on widespread implementation of evidence-based therapies. Catherine hopes to build upon her work at Baker by researching strategies for developing a culturally competent mental health workforce. She has secondary research interests in sustainment of evidence-based practices and measurement-based care.
Dr. Amanda Jensen-Doss is the principal investigator and faculty advisor of CIELO Lab. She is a Professor in the Child Division of the Department of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at the University of Miami. Dr. Jensen-Doss received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed a clinical internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, and was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University until 2009.
Caroline Harris
