Alumni

The Clinical Science faculty are extremely proud of the careers and successes of our alumni. The following page provides a list of all clinical science alumni within the past ten years by year of graduation and with their internship, postdoctoral, and current professional positions. Last updated Spring 2025.

2015

Kaushalendra Amatya

Internship: Children’s National Medical Center

Postdoctoral Position: Pediatric Medical Psychology Program, Johns Hopkins University

Current Position: Attending Psychologist, Solid Organ Transplant Divisions of Nephrology, Cardiology, and Pulmonology Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC

 

Neville Galloway-Williams

Internship: Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland, Baltimore School of

Medicine (VAMHCS/UMB)

Postdoctoral Position: Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System

Current Position: Clinical Psychologist/Practice Owner at NFGW Psychologist, LLC

 

Jill Lorenzi Howard

Internship: Marcus Autism Center

Postdoctoral Position: Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, Duke University Medical Center

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center

  

Brenna Burns Maddox

Internship: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Postdoctoral Position: Center for Autism Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP); Penn Center for Mental Health, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

2016

Kristin Austin

Internship: Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Position: Children's Learning Clinic, Department of Psychology, Florida State University

Current Position: Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the Psychological Services Center, Department of Psychology, University of Mississippi.

 

Kelsey Banes

Internship: Missouri Health Science Psychology Consortium

Postdoctoral Position: Substance Use/Homeless Rehabilitation, Clinical Psychology Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System

Current Position: Psychologist, Cross Systems Division, County of Santa Clara, Behavioral Health Services

 

Claire Blevins (deceased)

Internship: Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Postdoctoral Position: Hired upon graduation as Research Faculty

Position: Assistant Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University; Research Psychologist, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI

 

Franklin Carvajal

Internship: University of Kansas Counseling and Psychological Services

Current position: Clinical Director, Nurtureful Psychological Services, PC and Contracted Psychologist Evaluator and Court Appointed Expert Witness Forensic Psychologist

 

Katherine Donlon

Internship: Duke University Medical Center

Postdoctoral Position: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center 

 

Tyler (Hassenfeldt) Higgs

Internship: Nationwide Children's Hospital

Postdoctoral Position: Fellow, Clinical Assessment and Diagnostics, Marcus Autism Center, Emory University School of Medicine

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine; Clinical Psychologist, Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development 

 

Philip Klineburger

Internship: University of Texas Health Services Center at Tyler

Postdoctoral Position: Neuropsychological Services of New Mexico, in Albuquerque

Current Position: Clinical Neuropsychologist, Samaritan Health Services - Albany, Oregon

 

Jonathan Waldron

Internship: Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Integrated Care Psychology in HIV and Liver Disease, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, and affiliation with The University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry

Current Position: Behavioral Health Manager II and Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, The Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, San Rafael, CA

 

Michael Wusik

Internship: Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine (VAMHCS/UMB)

Postdoctoral Position: Hired upon graduation into clinical practice

Current Position: Co-Owner/Clinical Director, Psychology Group of Tampa Bay, Inc.

 

2017

Caitlin Conner

Internship: University of Colorado School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

 

Andrew Smith

Internship: Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Utah

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; Associate Research Professor, Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience, University of Colorado; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine

 

Amber Turner

Internship: OhioGuidestone

Postdoctoral Position: Clinical Child/Adolescent Postdoctoral Fellow, Center of Excellence, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Belmont University. 

 

2018

Vanessa Brown

Internship: Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University

 

Lara Coughlin (Moody)

Internship: Durham VA Medical Center

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Addiction Research Center, University of Michigan

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

 

Roberto Guerra

Internship: Patton State Hospital

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Forensic Psychology, Patton State Hospital

Current Position: Clinical Psychologist, Lifestance Health and Vista Behavioral Health Associates

 

Amanda Halliburton

Internship: Southwest Virginia Psychological Doctoral Internship Consortium - Stone Mountain Health Services

Postdoctoral Position: Hired upon graduation as an assistant professor

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Science, University of North Georgia

 

Rachel Miller-Slough

Internship: Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University

 

Haley Gordon Murphy

Internship: Western Youth Services, Orange County, CA

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Harbor UCLA Medical Center

Current Position: Owner, Step Ahead Psychological Services, P.C. and Psychologist, Belmont Psychological Services

 

2019

Ransom Campbell

Internship: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center-OKC VA Consortium Internship in Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology Specialization Track

Postdoctoral Position: Fellow, Clinical Neuropsychology, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Department of Neurology

 

Marika Coffman

Internship: Nationwide Children's Hospital, Child Development Center

Postdoctoral Position: Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine

 

Rebecca Elias

Internship: Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Section of Psychology, Autism Track

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, University of Southern California

 

Connor Sullivan

Internship: Department of Veteran Affairs, Cincinnati VA Medical Center

Postdoctoral Position: Cincinnati VA Medical Center

Current position: Statistician, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

 

Deanna Swain

Internship: Children's Hospital of Colorado

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Associate of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medicine

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine

 

Andrew Valdespino

Internship: Department of Veteran Affairs, Orlando VA Medical Center

Postdoctoral Position:  Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System

Current Position: Staff Psychologist, James A. Haley VA Medical Center

 

Andrea Wieckowski

Internship: Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Internship Training Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, AJ Drexel Autism Institute, Drexel University

 

2020

Lauren Delk

Internship: Federal Correctional Complex – Butner, Federal Medical Center, Butner, North Carolina

Postdoctoral position: Staff Psychologist in the Federal Bureau of Prisons

Current position: Staff Psychologist, Butner Federal Correctional Complex, Butner, NC

 

Benjamin Bradford DeVore

Internship: Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA., Portsmouth, VA

Postdoctoral Position: Active Duty Navy Clinical Psychologist, Norfolk, VA

Current Position: Fellow, Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA; Clinical Psychologist, United States Navy

 

Reina Factor

Internship: Predoctoral Intern, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Track

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Clinical Psychology Fellow in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior at UCLA

Current position: Director of Training, Attending Psychologist, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior

 

Katherine McCurry

Internship: University of Mississippi Medical Center

Postdoctoral Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Addiction Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

 

Isaac Smith

Internship: University of Colorado School of Medicine, JFK Developmental Disabilities, Aurora, Colorado

Postdoctoral position: Child/Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Program, Department of Psychiatry, UConn School of Medicine in West Hartford, CT

Current position: Psychologist, University of Vermont Medical Center

 

2021

Merage Ghane

Internship: VA Medical Center - Salem, Salem, Virginia

Postdoctoral position: Mood and Brain Lab,  University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry

Current Position: Director of Responsible AI in Health, Coalition for Health AI

 

Ashley Muskett

Internship: Virginia Treatment Center for Children

Postdoctoral Position: Virginia Treatment Center for Children

Current position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Clinical Psychologist, Children's National Medical Center

 

Sarah Ryan Radtke

Internship: Nationwide Children's Hospital

Postdoctoral Position: Pediatric Medical Psychology Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

Marlene Strege

Internship: Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic 

Postdoctoral Position: Research Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry

 

2022

Jordan Albright

Internship: University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Psychiatry, Child/Developmental Disabilities Track, Philadelphia, PA

Postdoctoral position: Fellowship in Implementation Research in Mental Health, NIMH T32 Training Program at the Penn Center for Mental Health & Penn’s Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama 

 

Ligia Antezana

Internship: Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic / University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Postdoctoral position: Innovative Methods in Pathogenesis and Child Treatment (IMPACT) NIMH T32 Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh 

 

Angela Dahiya-Singh

Internship: UC Davis Children's Hospital - CAARE Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Child Maltreatment & Neurodevelopment (CMN) track, Sacramento, CA

Postdoctoral position: University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Current Position: Psychological Associate, Kaiser Permanente, Department of Psychiatry, Autism Spectrum Disorder Center

 

Alyssa Gatto

Internship: Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Child-Juvenile Justice/Behavioral Health, Providence, RI

Postdoctoral position: NIMH T32 Child Mental Health Fellowship at Brown University

Current position: Assistant Professor, Mental Health Quality and Pragmatic Implementation Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine  

 

Tyler McFayden

Internship: University of North Carolina SOM - Clinical Psych, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), Chapel Hill, NC

Postdoctoral position: NICHD T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Health Sciences and Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Amelia Tankersley

Internship: UCLA - Semel Institute, Stress, Trauma & Resilience, Los Angeles, CA

Postdoctoral position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Anxiety and Behavioral Change, McLean, Virginia

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine

 

2024

Jennifer Bertollo

Internship: Virginia Treatment Center for Children at VCU Health

Postdoctoral position: T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Children’s National Hospital, Center for Autism Research

 

Corinne Carlton

Internship: UNC SOM, Affective Neuroscience

Postdoctoral Position: NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University

Current Position: NIMH F32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University

 

Janey Dike

Internship: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Science, Adult Track

Postdoctoral position: Rutgers University

Current Position: Psychologist, New York City Family Court Mental Health Services

 

2025

Elizabeth DeLucia

Internship: Yale Child Study Center

Postdoctoral Position: Yale Child Study Center

 

Candice Dwyer

Internship: The Ottawa Hospital, Ontario

 

Megan Fok

Internship: Rochester Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Position: Autism Spectrum Program of Excellence, University of Pennsylvania

 

Katelyn Garcia

Internship: University of Florida Health Science Center

Postdoctoral Position: APPCN Pediatric Neuropsychology program, Children's National Hospital

 

Brianna George

Internship: Durham VA Medical Center

Postdoctoral Position: Trauma Recovery Program, Durham VA Medical Center

 

Hayoung Ko

Internship: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

 

Delshad Shroff 

Internship: Virginia Treatment Center for Children, VCU Health