Leadership

Liz Thomas, PhD, Co-Director

Researchers

Kyra Baker-Short, MSRT

Eugene Brusilovskiy, MUSA

Affiliation: Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion. I'll be a co-investigator on a CIRC Center project.

Since 2010, Eugene has been the Director of the Laboratory on Geography, Mobility and Disability at Temple University. His research interests include the use of innovative technologies and analytical tools to examine the predictors of various health-related outcomes. He has served as co-PI on numerous Federally-funded longitudinal and cross-sectional studies that use a variety of GIS, statistical, and data mining tools to get a better understanding of the environmental and individual-level factors that may be associated with community mobility, participation, and inclusion of individuals with disabilities. See the complete list of Eugene's publications. 

Kathryn Burke, PhD

Barbara Ferman, PhD

Paul Hyry-Dermith, PhD

Megan Kelly, PhD

Spencer Lawson, PhD

Alicia Lucksted, PhD

Akihoko Masuda, PhD

Ethan Moitra, PhD

Affiliation: Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Dr. Moitra is a clinical psychologist. His research focuses on the application of acceptance- and mindfulness-based interventions to support treatment engagement, particularly among people with HIV and those at risk for HIV infection, as well as enhancing social support as a pathway to improved mental health. Dr. Moitra also leads research projects that leverage mHealth applications to support patients during transitions in their mental health care. Read his full bio

Michelle Munson, PhD

Ieshia Nelson, MA

Caterina Roman, PhD

Gretchen Snethen, PhD, CTRS

Natalie Stollon, LCSW, MPH

Gina Vincent, PhD

Is a Professor of Psychiatry, Co-Director of the Law & Psychiatry Program, and faculty in the Implementation Science & Practice Advances Research Center (iSPARC) at UMass Chan Medical School. She received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with a Forensic Psychology and Law Specialization from Simon Fraser University. Dr. Vincent has received funding from the National Institute of Justice, NIMH, NIDA, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and OJJDP for studies relevant to risk for reoffending or violence, implementation outcomes of risk assessment and risk-need-responsivity in legal settings, and behavioral health and substance misuse concerns among youth. She is the author of the Risk Assessment in Juvenile Probation: A Guidebook for Implementation manual and has conducted multiple studies to examine racial equity of different risk screening and assessment instruments.

Dr. Vincent has assisted over 50 county or state juvenile justice agencies with the creation and validation of risk screening tools and/or selection and implementation of risk-needs assessments for case planning. She has received multiple federal grants to study the effectiveness of this implementation on case management. She has over 80 publications in the areas of risk assessment, implementation of risk-needs assessment in juvenile justice, adolescent substance misuse, callous-unemotional traits, and mental health symptoms in justice settings.

Recai Yucel, PhD

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Consultants

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Project Staff