An explicit aim of the STAR Initiative is to provide formal and informal training opportunities for future stress, trauma, and resilience scientists including research training opportunities spanning biological, psychosocial, and technological considerations for psychology and psychiatry residents and post-doctoral fellows. Trainees affiliated with the STAR Initiative participate in monthly Adversity and Trauma Research Group meetings that provide opportunities for peer and mentored review of scholarly work, including manuscripts for publication and grant proposals. Affiliated trainees also have opportunities to receive formal and informal mentoring from affiliated faculty who are not their primary mentor, with the goal of enriching the training experience and promoting exposure to diverse perspectives.
Fellows and Residents
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Clinical Psychology Resident
Prachi H. Bhuptani, MA, is a clinical psychology resident at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at Miami University. Her research focuses on the investigation of ecological factors and processes underlying experiences of stigma following sexual victimization among women.
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STAR T32 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Teresa Daniels, MD, is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She earned her MD and MS in Anatomy and Neurobiology from Virginia Commonwealth University and completed her residency in Psychiatry, including an R25-funded research training program, at Brown University.
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Psychiatry Resident, R25 Research Training Program
Dr. Fukuda earned his M.D. / Ph.D. via the MSTP combined degree program from Loma Linda University. The major focus of his Ph.D. was investigating the role of astrocyte network proteins on edema formation in neurovascular trauma under the mentorship of Dr. Jerome Badaut. Dr.
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STAR T32 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Sharon Lee is a STAR T32 postdoctoral fellow at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she also completed her clinical psychology internship. Sharon received her PhD in Clinical Psychology with emphases in Quantitative Research Methods and Health Psychology from the University of Connecticut. During her doctoral studies, Sharon received a NHLBI-funded F31 to study associa
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Psychiatry Resident, R25 Research Training Program
Dr. Olsen received her BS in psychology and MD through a combined program at Stony Brook University and is currently completing her psychiatry residency at Brown University.
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STAR T32 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Darlynn Rojo-Wissar, PhD, MPH is a psychiatric epidemiologist and STAR T32-funded postdoctoral fellow at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The aim of her research is to examine the role of sleep and circadian rhythms in the development and exacerbation of poor mental and physical health outcomes across the lifespan, to inform intervention and prevention strategies.
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Clinical Psychology Resident
Katherine M. Tezanos, MS, is a clinical psychology resident at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University working under the research mentorship of Dr. Nicole Nugent. She is a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University and earned her BA in psychology at Amherst College.