Current Staff
Staff
Allison Futter, B.S.
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Alli is a Clinical Research Coordinator. She graduated summa cum laude from Trinity College, CT with a B.S. Honors in Psychology and a minor in Cognitive Science.
Alli works on several projects for the Health through Flourishing lab, including a NIH-funded R21 grant testing a smoking cessation mobile-health app for smokers living with HIV and a R01 randomized control trial for a smoking cessation app using a positive psychology framework. She hopes to continue building her research career by pursing either a MS or PhD in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests include positive psychology, harm reduction models, and using biopsychosocial-spiritual models to understand addictive behaviors.
Last updated: 1/1/2024
Alivia Williamson, B.A.
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Alivia Williamson is a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Health through Flourishing lab. She recently graduated with honors from Boston University where she received a B.A. in Psychology.
Alivia is currently working on multiple projects in the HtF lab, such as the R24 initiative to advance the science on recovery community centers (RCCs) and the R34 studies looking at RCCs that primarily serve Black populations. Her research interests include restorative justice, transformative justice, prison abolition, liberation psychology, and forensic psychology. She plans to continue her career in research by pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Forensics.
Last updated: 1/1/2024
Cora Nicoll, M.S.
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Cora is a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Health through Flourishing lab. She holds a B.A. in Forensic Psychology and, more recently, a M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Suffolk University.
Cora just joined the Health through Flourishing team (July 1, 2024). She will primarily work on the SiS4 project, which is a large-scale randomized clinical trial to test the effectiveness of the team’s smoking cessation smartphone app, the Smiling instead of Smoking app. She will also be involved in the team’s research and networking activities to advance the science on recovery community centers.
Her research interests include forensic psychology, mental health disparities in LGBTQ+, substance use disorders, and harm reduction models. She hopes to further her career in the future by pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
Last updated: 7/1/2024
Past Staff
Kaitlyn Siegel, B.A.
Katie was a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Recovery Research Institute between 2020-2022. During her time at the RRI, Katie had the pleasure of working on several projects with Dr. Bettina Hoeppner including a proof-of-concept RCT of the smoking cessation smartphone app "Smiling Instead of Smoking (SiS3)", a user-centered design study seeking to adapt the SiS app to support individuals with HIV with quitting smoking, and an RCT evaluating a positive psychotherapy smoking cessation program. Katie also supported the NIDA-funded R34 grant to advance the science on Recovery Community Centers. Katie is passionate about behavioral health and the use of digital health technology to improve the accessibility and effectiveness of care. Katie currently works in consulting in Boston in the HealthTech space.
Last updated: 1/1/2024
Molly Raddant, B.A.
Molly joined the team in January of 2021 as an undergraduate research intern and has since transitioned into a Clinical Research Coordinator role. She recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in French. She primarily works on the Smiling Instead of Smoking and the Positive Psychology Therapy for Smoking Studies. Molly’s interests broadly include Health Psychology, substance use, mechanisms of behavioral change, and chronic pain. She plans to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology.
Hannah Carlon, B.S.
After graduating from Suffolk University in 2018 with a B.S. in Psychology, Hannah worked as a clinical research coordinator in Dr. Hoeppner’s lab for 2 years. She coordinated the SiS 2 project, which developed and pilot-tested a positive psychology-centered smartphone app for nondaily smoking cessation, and co-coordinated several other projects in the area of positive psychological approaches to substance use recovery.
Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the University of New Mexico where her dissertation will investigate positivity resonance, an indicator of social connectedness, in early recovery from alcohol and opioid use disorders. Hannah and Dr. Hoeppner continue to collaborate on a range of projects having to do with flourishing in recovery.
Lourah Kelly, Ph.D.
Lourah Kelly, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School, in the Departments of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine, within the Implementation Science and Practice Advances Research Center. She was a Graduate Research Assistant with Dr. Hoeppner from 2013-2015 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.
Dr. Kelly completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Suffolk University, her internship at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Priority Behavioral Health Consortium, and her postdoctoral fellowship at UConn School of Medicine. She was awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award to train in designing avatar-guided digital health interventions, ecological momentary assessments, clinical trials with fully remote procedures, and adapting interventions for young adults and for implementation in the emergency department. She is now testing the novel intervention to help young adults manage their drinking and suicidal thoughts after an ED visit. She is also a Co-Investigator on the Collaborative Hub of Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR), part of CoARS, with Dr. Hoeppner.
She has a talent for persevering with journal articles that she picked up during her time at MGH. She recently reached out to Dr. Bettina Hoeppner to apply her K99 training on advanced intensive longitudinal analysis to the e-cig study she had assisted with back in 2015; revitalizing the paper led to its acceptance!