Current Environment:

Staff

Heidi Ellis, PhD

Director, Trauma and Community Resilience Center

Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Emma Cardelli, PhD

Enryka Christopher, MSc

Clinical Research Specialist II, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Kathlyn Elliott, PhD

Osob Issa, MSW

Program Coordinator, Department of Psychiatry

Loretta Iwanoski, LICSW

Alisa Miller, PhD

Psychologist, Co-Director, Project EPIC (Enhancing Integrative Pediatric Care); Research Associate, Trauma and Community Resilience Center

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Luna Mulder, PsyD

Vanja Pejic, PhD

Attending Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Amy Piepiora, LMHC

Program Coordinator II, Trauma and Community Resilience Center

Jeffrey Winer, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Dorys Lemus

Cultural Broker, Consultant, Trauma and Community Resilience Center

Caroline Salemy

Clinical Research Assistant I, Trauma and Community Resilience Center

Sewit Yohannes

Clinical Research Assistant I, Trauma and Community Resilience Center

Collaborators

Heidi Harrison, LICSW

Clinical Social Worker, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Former Team Members

Colleen Barrett Bixby, MPH

Colleen Barrett Bixby, MPH

Mrs. Bixby is the program coordinator at the TCRC. She has a background in cultural anthropology, as well as a master’s degree in public health with a concentration in international health. Bixby first came to the TCRC in 2009 as a public health intern to support the evaluation of Project SHIFA. She is interested in health disparities and how psychosocial research can be integrated with community-based work as part of the approach towards reducing them.
Seetha Davis Seetha Davis

Seetha Davis is a research assistant at the Trauma and Community Resilience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on sources of stress and resilience for children and families, including language-concordant healthcare, educational resources for providers, community-based mental health interventions, and child health literacy. Through research and clinical practice, she aims to care for and collaborate with communities to promote mental and physical well-being and advocate for pediatric health equity. Seetha worked as a research assistant full-time at the TCRC from 2019-2021 and remains a collaborator on several projects.