2009- 2010 INTERNSHIP COHORT
If you would like to speak
to interns who have completed
the program please contact
Mary Horton hortom2@u.washington.edu
GENERAL ADULT PSYCHOLOGY
Melynda Casement
E-mail: casement@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: University of Michigan
Clinical/Research Interests: my clinical interests are
behavioral treatments for depression, anxiety disorders, and insomnia. My research
focus is sleep and psychopathology. I am particularly interested in the physiological
and cognitive consequences of sleep treatment and disruption in depression and
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Stephen O'Connor
E-mail: oconnor7@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: The Catholic University of America
Clinical/Research Interests: suicide-specific treatments
with a primary focus on interventions in community mental health and trauma
centers; creating typologies of suicidality; measuring occult suicidality; dialectical
behavioral therapy; positive psychology.
Ursula Whiteside
E-mail: star8@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: University of Washington
Clinical/Research Interests: intervention development for
primary care settings involving brief interventions utilizing a motivational
interviewing style, reinforcing effective coping strategies already in use,
and offering additional strategies from the dialectical behavioral therapy skills
group component. I am interested in these types of interventions for numerous
psych related problem behaviors (substance abuse and other addictive type behaviors,
depression, anxiety).
GENERAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Jeremy Fox
E-mail: jeremy.fox@seattlechildrens.org
or jkfox@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: University at Albany, SUNY
Clinical/Research Interests: developmental psychopathology
of anxiety and depression; vulnerability-stress pathways; temperament, emotion
regulation, and coping; targeted prevention and early intervention of childhood
internalizing problems.
Andrea Maikovich-Fong
E-mail: andrea.maikovich-fong@seattlechildrens.org
or amaik@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: University of Pennsylvania
Clinical/Research Interests: childhood maltreatment and
trauma; gender differences in trauma experiences and post-trauma functioning;
family functioning following pediatric cancer diagnoses.
Roisin O'Mara
E-mail: roisin.omara@seattlechildrens.org
OR romara@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: University of Michigan
Clinical/Research Interests: relationship between sexual
abuse and suicidality, mental health screening, suicide risk detection and intervention
in Emergency Departments, and the effects of parental suicide on children.
Ella Vanderbilt-Adriance
E-mail: ella.vanderbilt-adriance@seattlechildrens.org
OR elv4@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: University of Pittsburgh
Clinical/Research Interests: empirically supported treatments
for childhood disorders; eating disorders; parent management training; interface
between child, family, and contextual risk and protective factors as they relate
to both positive and negative outcomes.
BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE/NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Sarah Sullivan
E-mail: sarsul@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: University of California, Los Angeles
Clinical/Research Interests: broadly, my research interests
center around understanding motivation. Specifically, much of my research explores
the influence of perception of probable time remaining in life on cognitive
processing, life goals, treatment adherence, and psychological adjustment in
the context of health adversity. My clinical interests include adjustment to
chronic disease and disability, health behavior promotion, and third wave behavior
therapy approaches to treating anxiety and depression.
Zina Trost
E-mail: trostz@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: Ohio University
Clinical/Research Interests: I am interested in psychosocial
factors that influence coping with chronic pain, with a particular emphasis
on disability in chronic back pain populations. Clinically, I have a growing
interest in acceptance and mindfulness-based interventions as well as more traditional
psychotherapy approaches.
Sonia Venkatraman
E-mail: soniaven@u.washington.edu
Graduate Program: University of Oregon
Clinical/Research Interests: adolescent health and behavior;
specifically, adolescent problem behavior/substance use and factors in prevention,
such as family management practices and health behaviors.