Lab News

Congratulations to Dr. Yeonsoo Park on receiving a K99/R00 grant. The K99/R00 project, Leveraging Ambulatory Technology to Assess Cognitive-Affective Processes in Suicidal Ideation Among High-Risk Adolescents, examines the short-term cognitive and emotional factors that contribute to suicidal thoughts in adolescents by developing a mobile behavioral measure of interpretation bias. We are thrilled to celebrate this achievement and look forward to the important contributions th

Congratulations to Dr. Taylor Burke on receiving her third NIH R01 award. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, and nearly 80% of individuals who die by suicide receive outpatient healthcare in the year prior. This project will develop and evaluate suicide risk prediction models and a precision treatment rule that use clinician suicide risk assessment and routine electronic health record data to help clinicians detect the patients at highest risk an

We are excited for Amelia publishing her first-authored paper in Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders! Her paper is titled "A multi-method evaluation of trait and state-sensitivity impulsivity in relation to impulsiveness of suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample." You can read more about her paper here.

Congratulations to Dr. Taylor Burke on receiving her second NIH R01 award, shared with Dr. Brooke Ammerman as Multi-Principal Investigators. A Mechanistic Analysis of the Transition from Nonsuicidal to Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescent Girls seeks to identify the mechanisms linking nonsuicidal self-injury to suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescent girls. We are thrilled to celebrate this achievement and look forward to the important contributions this new project will

Please join us in welcoming our newest Clinical Research Coordinators, Katelynn Cooper, Savannah Sedlock, and Vanessa Assaf, to the lab! We are excited to have them join the team and look forward to working with them as they contribute to our research and support our participants. Welcome aboard!

Congratulations to Rachel on receiving an NIH K23 Award and on completing her postdoctoral fellowship a full year ahead of schedule! Rachel’s K23, “Sleep and Circadian Timing Irregularities as Short-term Risk Factors for Adolescent Suicide: An Intensive Longitudinal Study,” focuses on improving short-term prediction of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents by examining how sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions contribute to suicide risk. Using intensive longitudinal

Dr. Richard Liu has been promoted to Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Congratulations on this achievement, Dr. Liu!

Ella has accepted an offer from the Master of Public Health program at Columbia University. She has also received The Ray E. Trussell, MD, Fellowship, a prestigious insitutional fellowship. Congratulations to Ella for her accomplishments and this great news!

Dev has accepted an offer from the doctoral program at the National University of Singapore to study under the mentorship of Dr. Hani Zainal. Congrats to Dev on this exciting news!

Congratulations to Taylor on her promotion to Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School!