PhD in Social Work, with coursework primarily focused on research methods, data analysis, and theory.
Mental/behavioral health related research experience: factor analysis and cross-cultural equivalence of psychometric scales for Indigenous people, scale development, evaluations of an adolescent partial hospitalization program and in-home services for children and adolescents with serious mental illness
My undergrad focus was psychology and computer information systems (I am trained in 9 programming languages), which I have found quite useful in my research career. I also have 2 fur baby boy cats, Sasha and Cloud, that provide tons of amusement while I am working from home. The only problem has been when they decide to take afternoon naps in my office chairs!
Ph.D., 2009, Emory University; S.M., 2005, Harvard University; B.A, 2001, Smith College
Ashli Owen-Smith is a behavioral scientist with research interests in health disparities, mental health (specifically serious mental illness, trauma and suicide), chronic pain, and complementary and alternative approaches for complex conditions with both mental and physical causes and manifestations.
Brian Ahmedani, PhD, LMSW, is a mental health services researcher with primary interests in suicide prevention.
PhD in Epidemiology / MS in Statistics
Mental/behavioral health related research experience: Suicide research, substance use and mental health research.
Baking and gardening
Health psychologist
Arne Beck, PhD is a health psychologist, Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s Institute for Health Research, and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center. He serves as the Kaiser Permanente Colorado site lead for the Mental Health Research Network. His research interests include perinatal mental health, suicide prevention, feedback informed care for depression, online mindfulness based cognitive therapy for preventing depre
Post BA fellowship at National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics; Masters Degree in Medical Anthropology
Have worked at KPCO for over 16 years on research and evaluation projects touching on topics such as healthy eating, active living, smoking harm reduction, opioid use disorder, diabetes, pediatric hypertension, youth substance use prevention, postpartum maternal mental health, and complementary and integrative health; Skilled in qualitative research design, data collection, and analysis.
I've trained in 3 different styles of martial arts in my lifetime - Ishun Ryu, Tae Kwon Do, and Enshin.
PhD Biostatistics
Mental/behavioral health related research experience: chronic pain in sickle cell disease (SCD), pediatric quality of life
I love to cycle both indoor and outdoor. Any fellow Peleton riders out there? Meet me for a ride! court921
MS Biostatistics
PhD in Epidemiology, M.S. in Nutritional Sciences.
Epidemiologist with background in Nutritional Sciences. Serves as MHRN Site PI for KPHI. Research interests in racial/ethnic disparities in maternal and child health.
Dr. Lynch received her PhD in health economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, where she was the recipient of a fellowship in health economics from the National Institute of Mental Health. Following her doctoral work, Dr. Lynch was a post-doctoral fellow in children’s mental health in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Lynch also holds a Master of Science degree in public health policy from the University of North Carolina at C
Frances Lynch, PhD, MSPH, is a health economist whose research focuses on the organization and financing of care for people with mental health conditions. Her work has particularly focused on mental health and developmental conditions in children and the economic impact of these conditions on families. Dr. Lynch has extensive experience conducting economic evaluations of complex behavioral interventions including interventions for depression and anxiety disorders.
My overarching research interests have always been measurement of behavior and implementation of health-related interventions in real-world settings such as public schools and healthcare systems. I believe my research has contributed to these areas because it has provided a road map for 1) how to objectively measure behavior that we have traditionally thought of as only self-reported (diet and physical activity) in the settings where it occurs and 2) how to change systems through the process of
I worked at a slaughter house my first year in graduate school as work study. I would go to Augusta, Georgia and collect ovarian follicular fluid from freshly killed cows for an invitro fertilization lab at the University of Georgia Vet School.
MPH in Health Services from University of Washington, BA in 20th Century History from University of California Davis
Interests include research operations and qualitative research
I love tending my garden and popular science podcasts.
Ph.D. Statistics
Mental/behavioral health-related research experience: suicide prevention, treatment for chronic depression, chronic pain, opioids safety, alcohol use
I have a 4-year-old son and a 2-year-old blue tick hound, both of whom are very sweet and also troublemakers! I love to garden and do jigsaw puzzles.
PhD in Sociology from Brandeis University