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Folasade Akinkuotu, PhD
- Director, Clinical Services, ADHD & Learning Differences Program
- Psychologist
Folasade Akinkuotu, PhD
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Lilia Mucka Andrew, PhD
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Andrew Peter Barnett, PhD
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Ellen Elizabeth Bartolini, PsyD
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Molly C Basch, PhD
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Tara Leigh Brennan, PsyD
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Shayna Skelley Coburn, PhD
- Psychosocial Health Director, Celiac Disease Program
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Melissa Renee Dvorsky, PhD
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Angelica Radina Eddington, PhD
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Lisa Allison Efron, PhD
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Vanessa Elizabeth Fuentes, PhD
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Sheina Ann Godovich, PhD
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Tyish Sonteem Hall Brown, PhD
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Robin Han, PhD
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Steven James Hardy, PhD
- Director, Psychology and Patient Care Services for CCBD
- Psychologist
Amanda Elizabeth Hastings, PsyD
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Linda Jones Herbert, PhD
- Director, Psychosocial Clinical Program, Allergy and Immunology
- Psychologist
Tiffany Kichline, PhD
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Maria Lauer, PhD
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Eleanor R. Mackey, PhD
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Britlan Gorse Malek, PsyD
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Donna Elaine Marschall, PhD
- Director, Whole Bear Care, Primary Care Behavioral Health Services
- Psychologist
Donna Elaine Marschall, PhD
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Ashley Denise Maxie-Moreman, PhD
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Cassianna McCants, PsyD
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Haley Meagher, PhD
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Michael Evan Mintz, PsyD
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Rebecca Neshkes, PhD
- Psychologist
Rebecca Neshkes, PhD
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- English
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- Rebecca Neshkes, Ph.D., earned her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed a previous postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and predoctoral internship at Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As a fellow in the Division of Allergy and Immunology, Rebecca provides assessment, consultation, and evidence-based therapy for children, adolescents and families impacted by food allergies, eosinophilic esophagitis, asthma, eczema, urticaria, and primary immunodeficiency disorders. She also works in the Center for Translational Research on intervention research to support the psychosocial functioning of adolescents with food allergies.
Melissa O'Connell Liggett, PhD
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Ari Romano-Verthelyi, PhD
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Cecilia Therese Rowland, EDD
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Erin Michelle Sadler, PsyD
- Co-Director, Mood and Trauma Disorders Program
- Director, Early Childhood Trauma Services
- Psychologist
Komal Sharma-Patel, PhD
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Sharon W. Shih, PhD
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Avante Jena Smack, PhD
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Hannah Snyder, PhD
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Olivia Rose Soutullo, PhD
- Director, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Services
- Psychologist
Olivia Rose Soutullo, PhD
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Randi Streisand, PhD
- Division Chief, Psychology and Behavioral Health
- Vice Chair, Institutional Review Board
- Psychologist
Randi Streisand, PhD
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Amber Thornton, PsyD
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Noelle Elizabeth Wolf, PsyD
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Deborah M. Zlotnik, PhD
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Liliana Acosta, PhD
- Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Liliana Acosta, PhD
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- English
- Spanish
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- Liliana “Lily” Acosta, Ph.D., completed her doctoral studies in School Psychology at the University of Florida and her pre-doctoral internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Behavior Management and Child and Family Therapy Clinics. She is a certified therapist in PCIT and has completed requirements for Within-Agency Training. Her clinical interests and research interests consist of reducing barriers to accurate autism diagnosis and supports, increasing access to community-based services, and serving Spanish-speaking populations. As the Autism and Advocacy fellow, Lily provides early-childhood and school-aged diagnostic autism evaluations, individual and group treatment for early childhood problem behaviors, and engages in community-based advocacy efforts related to reducing barriers to access care and increasing supports for marginalized populations.
Nakisa Asefnia, PhD
- Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Nakisa Asefnia, PhD
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- English
- Farsi
- Spanish
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- Nakisa earned her Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina and completed her predoctoral internship at Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she treated children experiencing traumatic stress behavioral concerns, and anxiety related disorders, and their families. Upon licensure, she will be certified in PCIT and TF-CBT. She provides inpatient and outpatient clinic services to children and families in the Trauma/Burn Service supporting children and caregivers in the aftermath of unintentional injuries. Nakisa is also a member of the Center for Translational Research working on projects related to coping and resilience, traumatic stress, and mechanisms to overcoming adversity. She was recently awarded a Lambert Foundation Pilot Grant to examine resilience in adolescents with ADHD symptoms after an unintentional injury.
Samuel Brotkin, PhD
- Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Samuel Brotkin, PhD
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- Samuel “Sam” Brotkin earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duke University where his research focused on understanding the experiences of adolescents and young adults with chronic health conditions and designing developmentally informed interventions to promote their psychosocial functioning. He completed his predoctoral internship at the University of Florida Health Science Center. His clinical interests include hematology/oncology, cancer survivorship, palliative care, and adolescent/young adult care. As the pediatric hematology/oncology/BMT fellow, Sam provides assessment, consultation and intervention for youth and their families in inpatient and outpatient settings within oncology, hematology, and blood and bone marrow transplant services.
Hannah Dugoni, PsyD
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Alexis Exum, PhD
- Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexis Exum, PhD
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- English
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Alexis Exum, Ph.D., received her Master of Clinical Psychological Science at the University of Maryland and Master of Psychology and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Kansas. She completed her residency in psychology at Children’s National. She researches social inequities and cultural factors related to the development and maintenance of obesity and disordered eating among the Black population. She developed the Culturally Informed Theory for Disordered Eating among Black Women, which was published in 2022. Her clinical focuses include adolescent and young adult disordered eating and anxiety and mood-related treatment among Black, Hispanic/Latinx, transgender and sexual minorities.
Kaila Falk, PsyD
- Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Kaila Falk, PsyD
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- Kaila Falk, Psy.D., is a fellow with the Child Psychiatric Unit and Mood & Trauma Disorders Program at Children's National Hospital. She specializes in evaluating and treating high-risk populations in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Falk received her Psy.D. from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in Manhattan and trained as a predoctoral intern at Kings County Hospital, in Brooklyn, NY, where she conducted acute care evaluations and treated clinically complex populations struggling with chronic stress, mood and anxiety symptoms, and trauma-related disorders, throughout several hospital departments. Dr. Falk has had extensive training in evidence-based treatments, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). She also has experience providing support to parents of children and adolescents with behavioral challenges using relational, attachment, and evidence-based interventions such as parent management training (PMT), supportive parenting for anxious childhood emotions (SPACE), and unified protocols (UP). Dr. Falk utilizes an integrative, evidence-informed, and individualized approach to foster a warm and collaborative therapeutic relationship, to set the foundation to best meet the needs of the patient and their family.
Joseph W. Graham, PhD
- Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph W. Graham, PhD
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- Joseph “Joe” Graham earned his doctoral degree in school psychology from the University of Florida and completed his predoctoral internship in the comprehensive school-based mental health track at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Joe has extensive experience in increasing the implementation of evidence-based mental health services to support students, families and school staff. As a postdoctoral fellow in the ADHD & Learning Differences Program, Joe provides comprehensive evaluations and treatment for children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He is also a member of the Center for Translational Research where he leads the implementation of Advanced Tools for Organization Management (ATOM), a school-based intervention to support adolescents with attention difficulties in increasing organization, time management, planning, and self-regulatory skills. Joe’s broader research interests include executive functioning, improving youth access to mental health services, and best supporting community professionals to advance school mental health practices.
Perrine Heymann, PhD
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TyKera Marrow, PhD
- Fellow
TyKera Marrow, PhD
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- English
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- TyKera “Kera” Marrow, Ph.D., is a fellow with the Developing Brain Institute at Children’s National Hospital. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from Jackson State University in Jackson, MS. Dr. Marrow completed an advanced practicum at Kennedy Krieger’s Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress in Baltimore, MD, and her pre-doctoral internship at WellSpan Health in York, PA. She is also a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Clinically, her interests included perinatal health and wellness, postpartum support, and women’s holistic health, with particular interests in Black woman-and-motherhood. Regarding research, she is passionate about examining constructs that maintain medical mistrust in historically disenfranchised populations, intersectionality, and healthcare, improving healthcare utilization, and utilizing culturally responsive and communal adaptions of evidence-based clinical approaches. Dr. Marrow is a passionate advocate and employs a culturally responsive, integrative, and collaborative approach to foster a strong and supportive therapeutic relationship.
Qinxin Shi, PhD
- Fellow
Qinxin Shi, PhD
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- English
- Chinese
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- Qinxin Shi graduated with her Ph.D. in developmental science from Texas A&M University and completed her first postdoctoral training in the Psychology Department at the University of Utah. Her research interests center on generating knowledge and solutions to understand children and adolescents’ mental health development and its dynamical associations with well-being and socio-emotional functioning outcomes from a developmental perspective using various tools (e.g., biometrics, e-health), designs (intensive longitudinal, experimental), and analyses (e.g., dynamic system modeling). She is also interested in how self-regulation plays a crucial role in the development of mental health. As part of her current NIH-funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship, she is gaining experience in examining mechanisms of development and key processes in delivering evidence-based intervention in communities and schools for youth and adolescents with ADHD and related social, emotional and behavioral challenges.