Dear Brown Alum:

Dear Brown Alum:

In June, we said congratulations to our 2024-2025 graduates!  You can read about the 23 clinical psychology residents and 31 postdoctoral fellows who graduated in 2025 by visiting the  Recent Graduates pages below.

Twenty-two of our clinical psychology residents this year have accepted postdoctoral fellowship positions (eleven will be remaining within the Brown system) and on has accepted a faculty position elsewhere.  The 2025-2026 internship class will start on July 1 and postdoctoral fellows have been coming in throughout the summer.

We have many new initiatives relating to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Antiracism. If you are interested in reading more check out the information on our Department's Diversity website.

Raquel Martin, PhD, Assistant Professor at Tennessee State University gave the Grand Rounds selected by our trainees.  The talk was entitled, "What You Don’t Diagnose Can Still Harm: Black Identity Development in Clinical Practice." After the presentation, Dr. Martin met virtually with the trainees to discuss research questions and talk about her career path. 

Mind-Brain Research Day was held on March 25, 2025! Several of our trainees won awards for their academic presentations.

Among our clinical psychology residents, two received awards, Jessica Smith, M.S. received first place for the presentation titled, “The Influence of ADHD, Anxiety, and Psychological Stress on Vigilance and Reaction Time Variability after Sleep Restriction in Adolescents,” and Rachel Keszycki, M.S. received second place for the presentation titled, “Digital Clock Drawing Performance is Associated with Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease and Cerebrovascular Disease in Cognitively Healthy Older Adults.”

In the postdoc group, Alexis Adams-Clark, Ph.D. received first place for the presentation titled, “Predictors of Nonconsensual Condom Removal Victimization: Interactions Between Alcohol Use and Minoritized Identities in College Students” and second place went to Destiny Printz Pereira, Ph.D. for the presentation titled, “Preliminary Findings of a Culturally-Adapted Mindful Parenting Intervention for Black and Hispanic Mothers.”  This year the first place Diversity Research Award was given to postdoctoral fellow,  Kristine Durkin, Ph.D., for the presentation titled, “Amplifying Young Voices: Strategies for Building and Sustaining a Youth Advisory Panel in Health Research.”

The Clinical Psychology Training Programs at Brown has a Facebook account to help current trainees and alumni stay connected.  We are proud to say that we already have added 400+ members to the group and encourage alumni to join!

As always, we are interested in hearing from you so please visit: www.brown.edu/go/clinical-psychology-training.  Update your contact information on the Alumni Directory via reply email, Brett_Requintina@Brown.edu and/or leave us a message at 401-444-1938. 

Best wishes!

Beth

Elizabeth McQuaid, PhD, ABPP
Director, Division of Clinical Psychology