Month: March 2026

Our Doctoral Alumni Spotlight

We wanted to take a moment to recognize all the doctoral students mentored by Dr. Park who have graduated from our lab over the years. Their hard work, curiosity, and dedication helped shape our research community. See below for where our PhD alumni are now:


Sinead Sinnott
Graduated: 2024
Postdoctoral fellow in the NEST lab and a T32 fellow in the Osher Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Lauren Carney
Graduated: 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Lucy Finkelstein-Fox
Graduated: 2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Sharon Lee
Graduated: 2021
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University.

Kristen Riley
Graduated: 2019
Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University.

Ian Gutierrez
Graduated: 2018
Research Psychologist, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Login George
Graduated: 2017
Core Faculty, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research and Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Rutgers University.

Dalnim Cho
Graduated: 2016
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Disparities Research, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Amy Hale
Graduated: 2015
Attending Psychologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Sherlyn Jimenez
Graduated: 2013
Practicing psychologist, Richmond, CA

Jennifer Wortmann
Graduated: 2012
Psychologist/Training Expert of the Mental Health and Chaplaincy Program of the Veterans Affairs MIRECC/Center of Excellence.

Mary Alice Mills
Graduated: 2012
Practicing Clinical Psychologist, Cranston, RI

Donald Edmondson
Graduated: 2011
Director, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health and Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Medicine and Psychiatry), Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Julie Fenster
Graduated: 2010
Practicing Clinical Psychologist, W. Hartford, CT.

Jennifer Schuster
Graduated: 2007
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Clinical Research Psychologist, Women’s Health Sciences Division, National Center for PTSD.

Patricia Bullard
Graduated: 2004
Practicing School Psychologist, Lubbock, TX

Liz Werden Hletko
Graduated: 2002
Practicing Psychologist, Evanston, IL

Kelly Allison
Graduated: 2001
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders.

Congratulations: 2026-27 Postdoctoral Fellowships

Congratulations to Katherine, Zach, and Adam for securing postdoctoral fellowships!

Katherine will be a T32 postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Zach will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Clinical Health Psychology Postdoctoral Residency Program in the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Adam will be a Brown University postdoctoral fellow in CBT and Third-Wave Behavioral Treatments for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) at the Providence VA.

Mariel Emrich Awarded NIAMS F31 Fellowship

Congratulations to lab member Mariel Emrich, who secured an F31 fellowship from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) to model the joint trajectories of PTSD and pain following trauma with musculoskeletal injury and identify targets for personalized interventions. We are incredibly proud of Mariel for this outstanding achievement and to see this important work move the field forward.