Lab Alumni

Enoch Sackey

Enoch is originally from Cape Coast, Ghana, where he received his BSc in Psychology at the University of Cape Coast. After completing his national service in Ghana, he went to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for his MPhil in Human Development. From there, he went to the University of Mississippi for his PhD in Clinical Psychology and received his Pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Internship training at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston Consortium), focusing on trauma and behavioral medicine. His research interests focus on how to optimally use research to improve population outcomes and reduce service inefficiencies that pose endemic challenge to health and social care systems. He is particularly interested in the dissemination and implementation of culturally appropriate interventions aimed at serving traditionally underrepresented populations (especially children and adolescents in low-resource communities) and addressing the following topics: 1) structural inequities and reducing mental health disparities among ethno-racial minorities; 2) disseminating and implementing scalable, sustainable intervention strategies for improving mental health in underserved populations; 3) cultural adaptations of interventions; and 4) social determinants of health and wellbeing.

Leah Lucid, MS

Leah is a grad­u­ate stu­dent in child clin­i­cal psy­chology at the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton. Her research interests include the dissemination and implementation of EBPs in public mental health settings and low- and middle-income countries. She received her BA from Wesleyan University in 2010. After graduating, she worked with a non-profit in Kenya (SHOFCO); a residential treatment facility for adolescent girls (Germaine Lawrence); Judge Baker Children’s Center (JBCC); and the Dorsey lab at UW.

Prerna Martin, PhD

Prerna graduated from the University of Washington in 2022 with a PhD in Child Clinical Psychology. She completed her clinical internship at UCLA and is now a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA. Prerna’s research interests focused on improving access to mental health services for youth and families through the dissemination and implementation of EBPs in underserved communities. She was particularly interested in the delivery of community-driven interventions through task-shifting approaches. Prerna is originally from New Delhi, India. She received her BA in Social & Cognitive Neuroscience from Harvard University and her MPH in Global Health from Boston University. Prior to coming to UW, Prerna received clinical and research training at the Columbia University Pediatric Anxiety & Mood Research Clinic, New York State Office of Mental Health, Boston VA National Center for PTSD, McLean Hospital and Asha, India.

Rosemary Meza, PhD

Rose­mary received her doctorate in child clin­i­cal psy­chol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton in Summer 2021. Her research inter­ests are focused on improv­ing men­tal health out­comes for chil­dren and ado­les­cents through the use of dis­sem­i­na­tion and imple­men­ta­tion sci­ence in domes­tic and inter­na­tional set­tings. She is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in study­ing provider and organizational-level facil­i­ta­tors of effec­tive imple­men­ta­tion of EBPs. Rose­mary has a strong inter­est in includ­ing com­mu­nity stake­hold­ers in the research process to increase the fea­si­bil­ity and accept­abil­ity of imple­men­ta­tion efforts. She received her BA from San Diego State Uni­ver­sity. After grad­u­at­ing, she worked as a research assis­tant at the Child and Ado­les­cent Ser­vices Research Cen­ter (CASRC). Rosemary attended her clinical internship at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital. Currently, she is a Research Associate at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute.

Caroline Soi, MD, PhD

Caroline Soi is a Global Health Implementation Science PhD graduate from the University of Washington. An experienced global health practitioner, Caroline provided primary and emergency health care services in several hospitals in Kenya prior to completing an Msc in STI and HIV at the University College London and working with Medicin San Frontier’s (MSF) HIV programs in Zimbabwe. She then served as a Technical Advisor seconded to the Mozambique Ministry of Health national HIV and Malaria programs where she was at the core of program scale up closely accompanying health system strengthening around program management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), health workforce and health financing. More recently she led a comprehensive national immunization program process evaluation project in Mozambique as part of her PhD studies, conducting implementation research focused on identifying determinants of health program implementation success and failure. Her aspiration is to continue to contribute knowledge to implementation science. She is currently a medical writer for 21GRAMS, a subsidiary of Real Chemistry.

Julie Harrison, PhD

Julie received her doctorate in child clinical psychology from the University of Washington in Summer 2020. Julie is now serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the CARES Institute, working with Dr. Esther Deblinger. Julie is broadly interested in EBP implementation readiness and sustainability and has specific interests in applying Organizational Behavioral theories to enhance implementation efforts within the public mental health system. Prior to her graduate studies at UW, Julie obtained her bachelor’s degree from Temple University, where she worked as the clinical coordinator for the (CAADC). After graduating, she worked as a research assistant at COTTAGe at the University of Pennsylvania. Julie attended her internship in San Diego at the University of California- San Diego Consortium/Veteran’s Affairs clinical internship. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Esther Deblinger at Rowan University.

Julie Nguyen

Julie graduated from Georgia State University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. While she was an undergraduate, she gained research experience working in the Child Health and Medical Pain Lab, Violence Against Women Prevention Lab, and the Nia Project. Prior to coming to UW, she worked as a Research Coordinator for the School of Medicine and Research Interviewer for the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Her research interests focus on ethnic minority mental health and reducing health disparities through understanding risk and protective factors among ethnically minoritized populations and translating this research to develop culturally responsive EBTs and increase access to such treatments. Concurrently, she also served as a Research Coordinator in the EMPOWER Lab at Georgia State University under Dr. Isha Metzger. She joined the Clinical-Community Psychology PhD Program at the University of South Carolina under the mentorship of Dr. Nada Goodrum in Fall 2022.

Grace Woodard

Grace graduated from University of Washington in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and received the President’s Medal. During her undergraduate career, she completed a thesis in the UW Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress on personality and behavioral risk factors for post-trauma psychopathology, and she was an intern at Seattle Children’s Hospital in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit. She is interested in implementation of evidence-based treatments within low resource settings leading to better patient outcomes. In the fall of 2020, Grace joined the PhD program in Child Clinical Psychology at the University of Miami with Dr. Amanda Jensen-Doss.

Zhanxiang (Sean) Sun

Sean graduated from the University of Washington in 2019. He was a research assistant in the RISE Mental Health Lab where he helped with the BASIC Project. Sean has attended clinical trainings like CETA and CBT+ Advanced Trainings as part of his professional development. He is interested in how artificial intelligence and data science can help with psychotherapy. In Fall 2022, Sean begun the Master of Data Science Program at the University of British Columbia.

Niya Park

Niya is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology with an interest in Biomedical Health Informatics and Early Childhood & Family Studies. She is currently a user researcher and marketer for a startup application that utilizes Written Exposure Therapy for those that are facing barriers in seeking help for their PTSD/traumatic symptoms. Niya plans to pursue a Doctoral degree in Child Clinical Psychology to focus on practicing and testing new methods of psychological treatment that are both effective and accessible.

Cynthia Caudillo

Cynthia is an undergraduate double majoring in Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Washington. She hopes to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology and is interested in researching therapy methods for BIPOC children and adolescents. Outside of the RISE lab, she volunteers at a crisis telephone center in Seattle.