CSPAR Collaborators
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David Atkins, PhD
Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center University of Washington Seattle, WA Dr. Atkins' work focuses on technology-augmented psychotherapy and behavioral interventions, where they use machine learning and user-centered design to provide fast, objective, performance-based feedback to clinicians to assist training, supervision, and quality monitoring. More generally, Dr. Atkins is interested in data science applications in Psychiatry and in assisting colleagues in designing studies and analyzing data. |
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Lisa A. Brenner, PhD, ABPP
Rocky Mountain MIRECC for VA Suicide Prevention Denver, CO Lisa A. Brenner. Ph.D. is a Board Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist, and a Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the University of Colorado, Anschutz School of Medicine, and the Director of the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 19 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC). She is the Research Director for the Department of PM&R. Dr. Brenner is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 22, Rehabilitation Psychology. Her primary area of research interest is traumatic brain injury, co-morbid psychiatric disorders, and negative psychiatric outcomes including suicide. She serves as the Research Division Director for the American Association of Suicidology, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. Dr. Brenner has numerous peer-reviewed publications, participates on national advisory boards, and is currently co-authoring a book regarding neurodisability and suicide. |
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Gregory K. Brown, PhD
Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Dr. Brown is a Research Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and a VISN 4 MIRECC Investigator and Clinical Psychologist at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. He is the Director of the Center for the Prevention of Suicide at the University of Pennsylvania. His research has focused on developing, evaluating, and disseminating targeted, psychotherapy interventions for individuals who are indicated as being at high risk for suicide. His areas of expertise include suicide risk assessment and developing and testing interventions for the prevention of suicide behavior. Dr. Brown serves as a standing member of two grant review panels, VA Mental Health Services (A) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. |
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Dedra Buchwald, MD
Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health Partnership for Native Health Washington State University Spokane, WA Dr. Buchwald is a Professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. She is also the founder and director of the Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, a program at Washington State University dedicated to conducting transdisciplinary research, education, and training to improve the health and well-being of underserved populations in Washington and across the U.S. She founded and directs Partnerships for Native Health, one of the largest research programs nationwide on the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives. She also founded the Washington State Twin Registry, one of the largest population-based twin registries in the nation. Dr. Buchwald has been the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of more than 30 projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and other major organizations and has conducted 10 randomized controlled trials with Native communities on diverse topics, primarily in relation to chronic disease. |
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Pete Gutierrez, PhD
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC) Military Suicide Research Consortium Florida State University (Currently working remotely from Alberta in Calgary, Canada). Dr. Gutierrez is the Executive Vice President of Innovation at LivingWorks Education, Inc. His team is responsible for ensuring that all LivingWorks training programs are maintained at the highest scientific standards. He directs internal and external research and evaluation work and maintains a robust network of external research partners with whom LivingWorks collaborates on advancing the science of suicide prevention. Dr. Gutierrez's clinical training was in child and adolescent psychology, with an emphasis on serious psychopathology and suicide. He is Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He has been studying suicide, focusing on screening, assessment, and intervention for over 25 years. Dr. Gutierrez is a Past-President of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS). He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Suicide Research and an associate editor of the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. |
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David Huh, PhD
Indigenous Wellness Research Institute University of Washington Seattle, WA David Huh is a quantitative and clinical psychologist whose research focuses on advancing quantitative methodology in behavioral health intervention and health disparities research. Dr. Huh is the Director of the Methods Division at the University of Washington (UW) Indigenous Wellness Institute and a Licensed Psychologist in the State of Washington. His areas of research include alcohol use, chronic illness, suicide prevention, and culturally informed intervention with American Indian and Alaska Native communities and other underserved populations. An overarching goal of Dr. Huh’s research is making cutting-edge statistical methodology capable of more accurately evaluating health and social behavioral data more accessible to substantive researchers and non-statisticians. |
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David A. Jobes, PhD, ABPP
The Suicide Prevention Lab The Catholic University of America Washington, DC Dr. Jobes, is a Professor of psychology, Associate Director of Clinical Training, and Director of the Suicide Prevention Lab at The Catholic University of America. His research and writing in suicide has produced numerous peer reviewed publications (including six books on clinical suicidology). As an internationally recognized suicidologist, Dr. Jobes is a past President of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) and is the recipient of that organization’s 1995 “Edwin Shneidman Award” in recognition of early career contribution to suicide research. Dr. Jobes the 2012 recipient of the AAS Dublin Award in recognition of career contribution in suicidology and in 2016 he received the AAS Marsha Linehan Award for his suicide treatment research. He is the creator of an evidence-based suicide-focused clinical intervention called the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS). Dr. Jobes is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and is a board certified clinical psychologist (American Board of Professional Psychology). |
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Sara J. Landes, PhD
Division of Health Services Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences South Central MIRECC, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Behavioral Health QUERI, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR Sara J. Landes, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist interested in researching the implementation of evidence-based mental health treatments, with a focus on suicide prevention and larger health care systems. She completed a predoctoral psychology internship and NIMH-funded NRSA postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine where she developed clinical expertise in interventions for suicide, specifically Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Dr. Landes currently leads the VA's Behavioral Health QUERI program which is focused on the implementation and evaluation of interventions for mental health and suicide in collaboration with the VA’s Office of Mental Health Suicide Prevention. She also serves on the Military Suicide Research Consortium Dissemination and Implementation Core. |
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Marsha Linehan, PhD, ABPP
Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics University of Washington Seattle, WA Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington and the former Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, a clinical research center that specialized in the development and evaluation of evidence-based treatments for high suicide risk, multi-diagnostic and difficult-to-treat populations with severe mental disorders. Her primary research is in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. Until her retirement in 2019, she was highly involved in developing effective means of disseminating evidence-based behavioral treatments to all those who need them. |
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David D. Luxton, PhD., M.S.
Now Matters Now Luxton Labs LLC TQIntelligence State of Washington Office of Forensic Mental Health University of Washington Seattle, WA Dr. Luxton is a nationally recognized expert, consultant, and trainer in suicide prevention, telehealth, and innovative technologies in behavioral healthcare. He has consulted widely on the topic of technology and ethics in healthcare, and has helped to develop national guidelines for telebehavioral health and clinical best practices for technology-based treatments. He has also conducted extensive research in the areas of military psychological health and suicide risk and prevention, and he has served as a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several federally funded clinical trials. He is Director of Luxton Labs LLC, a licensed clinical psychologist, and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran and recipient of the American Psychological Association Division 19 (Military Psychology) Arthur W. Melton Award for Early Career Achievement. |
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Lonnie Nelson, PhD
Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health Partnership for Native Health Washington State University Seattle, WA Dr. Lonnie Nelson is an Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing. He has extensive clinical and research experience in neurocognitive assessment and in rehabilitation interventions for people with brain injury. As an American Indian with origins in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Dr. Nelson is also engaged in research, education, and training to improve the health and well-being of Native Americans. His research uses a community-based approach to ensure that all activities result in long-term improvements in the lives of participating community members. His past efforts include extensive assessment and rehabilitation of soldiers returning from military deployment with blast-related brain injury. |
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Jennifer L. Shaw, PhD
Southcentral Foundation Anchorage, AK Jennifer Shaw is a medical anthropologist and Senior Researcher at Southcentral Foundation, a Tribal health organization based in Anchorage, Alaska. Her pre-doctoral research examined the role of subsistence culture in the subjective wellbeing of Dena’ina Athabascan youth, as well as healthcare access for children of immigrants to the U.S. As a Tribal health services researcher since 2010, she has led community-based participatory, mixed-methods research on diverse topics, with an emphasis on suicide prevention, substance use, child and maternal health, and primary palliative care communication. Her suicide prevention research includes studies on the lived experience of suicidality among Alaska Native and American Indian (AN/AI) people, cultural adaptation and testing of evidence-based interventions, and the validation and implementation of predictive algorithms to predict suicide risk among AN/AI people in primary care. |
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Brianna Turner, PhD
Risky Behaviour Lab University of Victoria Victoria, BC Dr. Turner’s research focuses on understanding when and why people engage in behaviors that are physically harmful to themselves, including non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal behaviors, and disordered eating. Her current research uses micro-longitudinal and longitudinal methods to observe how these behaviors change over minutes, hours, days, months and years. In addition, her work uses epidemiological surveys to understand the population-level health impact of these behaviors across the lifespan. Turner’s research has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and several local foundations. Prof. Turner has been intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Her clinical work focuses on using evidence-based treatments to help people reduce self-damaging behaviors, increase their ability to effectively manage emotions, and create a life worth living. At the University of Victoria, Prof. Turner teaches courses on self-damaging behaviors and abnormal psychology. |
