Transitions ACR Faculty Directory
Our faculty is nationally/internationally recognized, conducting, disseminating, and supporting the use of research in the public mental health system to enhance services for transition-aged youth people with behavioral health conditions that promote their recovery and improve their quality of life. Their work informs, advises, and involves individuals with lived mental health experience, their families, providers, administrators, and policymakers navigating the behavioral health landscape.
Leadership
Kathryn Sabella, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research
kathryn.sabella@umassmed.edu
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UMass Chan Profile
Co-director, of The Center for Community Inclusion and Reflective Collaborative (funded by the NIDILRR and SAMHSA) with Temple University Collaborative at Temple University College of Public Health.
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Maryann Davis, Ph.D.
Academic Role: Professor Emerita of Psychiatry
PI for the Learning & Working During the Transition to Adulthood Rehabilitation Research & Training Center (Learning & Working RRTC). Co-PI for the Tools for Work Success Study. Co-PI Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR) at UConn School of Medicine.
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Lourah Kelly, Ph.D.
Academic Role: Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, Department of Emergency Medicine
Director of the Suicide and Substance Use Lab and Emerging Adult Avatar Project, funded by NIAAA. Co-PI Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR) at UConn School of Medicine. Co-PI Improving Outcomes of Adolescents in Residential Substance Use Treatment via a Technology-Assisted Parenting Intervention at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Marsha Langer Ellison, Ph.D.
Director, Communications at iSPARC
Director, Knowledge Translation for the Learning & Working Rehabilitation and Research Training Center (RRTC)
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Collen McKay, MA., C.A.G.S.
Academic Role: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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Michelle Mullen, Ph.D.
Academic Role: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Director of Helping Youth on the Path to Employment (HYPE)
Co-PI for the Tools for Work Success Study
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Hannah Seward, Ph.D.
Academic Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research interests: Knowledge translation (including integrated and arts-based KT), employment for young adults with disabilities, vocational rehabilitation, life skills
