Biography

Melissa graduated from the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at the University of Rhode Island in August 2022 after completing her predoctoral Psychology Internship Program at the Charleston Consortium (Medical University of South Carolina/Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center) in Charleston, SC. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Substance Abuse Prevention T32 in the Division of Prevention and Community Research through the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.

Dissertation: Associations among affect, alcohol use, and risky sex: A daily diary study of First Nation adults, defended June 2022