Current Mentees
K Mentees
David Eddie, Ph.D.
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Dr. David Eddie is the Associate Director of Clinical Translational Recovery Science at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Recovery Research Institute and Center for Addiction Medicine, a clinical psychologist in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Psychology.
Dr. Eddie holds a B.A. from Columbia University with honors in psychology, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, where he conducted research at the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies. Dr. Eddie did his clinical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital before completing his post-doctoral training as a Harvard Medical School Livingston Fellow at the Recovery Research Institute.
His research seeks to better understand the psychological and psychophysiological causes and conditions that lead to people becoming addicted to alcohol and other drugs, and how these factors can also maintain addiction. He uses this knowledge to develop and study novel treatments for substance use disorder.
Dr. Eddie is also the co-director of Peer Recovery Consultants, a group of peer recovery support specialists providing addiction recovery coaching, support to families, and education and training.
Last Updated: 1/8/2025
Davida M. Schiff, MD, MSc
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Dr. Schiff is a general academic pediatrician, addiction medicine physician, and health services researcher focused on improving care for families impacted by substance use disorder (SUD). She is the Director of Perinatal and Family-based SUDs Care at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she founded the HOPE Clinic, a multidisciplinary program caring for pregnant and parenting people with substance use disorder and their families from the time of conception through the first two years postpartum.
Dr. Schiff completed her undergraduate training at Columbia University, medical training at the Boston University School of Medicine, pediatrics residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital, general pediatrics research fellowship at Boston Medical Center, and master’s program in health services research from the Boston University School of Public Health. She has received federal funding from NIDA, SAMHSA, and the Department of Justice. Her scholarship has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Addiction, among other journals. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Last Updated: 1/8/2025
Jessica McCurley, Ph.D., M.P.H
Dr. McCurley is a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University. She completed her Clinical Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. McCurley’s research utilizes behavioral economics, implementation science, and community-based participatory methods to develop and evaluate interventions that address social determinants of health (e.g., food and housing insecurity) and reduce disparities in cardiometabolic diseases (e.g., obesity, type 2 diabetes) and depression in Hispanic/Latinx individuals and low-income populations. Dr. McCurley’s current NIH-funded studies involve developing a telehealth intervention to reduce depression and increase physical activity in low-wage hospital service workers and evaluating the implementation of a new Massachusetts state health policy to address food and housing insecurity in Medicaid patients. Dr. McCurley is also exploring how wearable technologies (e.g., continuous glucose monitors) can be used to improve learning about the impact of health behaviors on disease management in type 2 diabetes.
Last Updated: 1/1/2024
Past Mentees
Naoise Mac Giollabhui, Ph.D.
Naoise Mac Giollabhui is a Clinical Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital's Depression Clinical and Research Program. His research investigates why cognitive functioning is disrupted in depression, why these cognitive difficulties persist in remitted depression and the treatment options available to patients to address this debilitating symptom of depression. He is particularly interested in the role that the immune system plays in the etiology of depression and cognitive dysfunction.
Last Updated: 1/1/2024
Colin Burke, MD
Colin Burke, MD is the Director of the MGH Youth Experiencing Homelessness Program, a clinical, research, and teaching program built upon an academic-community partnership between MGH and Bridge Over Troubled Waters. He completed training in Adult, Child/Adolescent, and Addiction Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean. His research has been funded by the MGH Louis V. Gerstner III award and the HMS Zinberg Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry Research, and is currently funded by a NIDA/American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry K12 award. His current research work focuses on the links between psychiatric illness, substance use disorders, stress, resilience, and suicidality among transitional age youth experiencing homelessness. His work integrates inputs from diagnostic, psychometric, and psychophysiological assessments to understand phenotypic risk profiles of youth experiencing homelessness.
Last Updated: 1/17/2024
Melissa Schick, Ph.D.
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Melissa Schick, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on mechanistic processes influencing the development, course, maintenance, remission, and prevention of substance use and related health disparities among trauma-exposed individuals. She is the Director of the Study of Trauma, Addiction, and Recovery (STAR) Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Prevention and Community Research at the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Psychology Section). She was awarded a K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine subjective and objective indices of emotional processes as proximal risk factors for substance use among trauma-exposed community adults.
Dr. Schick obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rhode after completing her predoctoral internship through the Charleston Consortium (Medical University of South Carolina/Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center), and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Suffolk University. She received postdoctoral training in Substance Use Prevention Research through the Yale School of Medicine. She was a Clinical Research Coordinator with Dr. Hoeppner from 2013-2018 on multiple studies related to context of quit attempts among young adult college students, non-daily smokers, and initiation of e-cigarette use using ecological momentary assessments and daily diaries. She also assisted with the development of the SiS (Smiling Instead of Smoking) app for non-daily smokers.
Last Updated: 1/6/2025
Ryan Mace, Ph.D.
Dr. Ryan Mace is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR) at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has extensive clinical training in evidence-based cognitive behavioral and mind-body treatments for older adults across the health–illness spectrum. Dr. Mace’s research focuses on the integration of mindfulness, lifestyle behaviors, and technology to promote brain health with aging. He is using mixed methods to iteratively develop a group-based program (My Healthy Brain) targeting modifiable risk factors for dementia in older adults with subjective cognitive decline. With an NIA K23, Dr. Mace is conducting qualitative focus groups and engaging medical and community stakeholders to prepare for a randomized clinical trial (N=50) of My Healthy Brain. The long-term goal of this project is to increase access to preventative brain care by implementing My Healthy Brain into communities and clinics.
Last Updated: 1/1/2024
Hilary Weingarden, Ph.D.
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Dr. Hilary Weingarden is a psychologist and the Clinical Research Director at HabitAware, a company that built a smart bracelet to detect the motions of body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) like hair pulling and skin picking, to help users build awareness and engage effectively in BFRB treatment strategies. Prior to her position at HabitAware, Dr. Weingarden was the Assistant Director of the Center for Digital Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. She conducts research focused on leveraging technology to enhance the assessment and treatment of mental health conditions. She worked with Dr. Bettina Hoeppner on a K23 study funded by NIMH (PI: Weingarden) to enhance detection of psychiatric risk in adults with body dysmorphic disorder using smartphone sensor data and ecological momentary assessment data.
Last Updated: 01/15/2025
Geneva Jonathan, Ph.D.
Geneva Jonathan, Ph.D. is a K12 Scholar in Substance Use and Addiction Medicine and a post-doctoral fellow in psychology at the Center of Digital Mental Health (CDMH) and Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD). She completed her undergraduate degree at Wesleyan University, her doctorate degree in clinical psychology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and her clinical internship at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. Throughout graduate school, Geneva became a practiced clinician in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) through clinical rotations at Advocates Illinois Masonic Medical Center, the Depression and Anxiety Specialty Clinical of Chicago, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Geneva’s clinical background is in treating adolescents and adults with severe and chronic mental illnesses. Outside of clinical work, Geneva’s research focuses on the development, evaluation, and implementation of digital mental health interventions for severe mental illnesses as well as understanding the underlying mechanisms for how these interventions effectively prevent, intervene and treat these illnesses.
Last Updated: 1/1/2024