Editorial Board

The Journal of Pediatric Psychology Editor and Associate Editors are providing a positionality statement about the group in an effort to be transparent about our backgrounds and the lenses through which we view research and research processes. We are White, Black, and Asian able-bodied individuals who are cisgender and heterosexual or gay/lesbian. We represent various religions and spiritual orientations, including Christian, Atheist, Jewish, and Agnostic. We represent Generation X and Millennials. Professionally, we have PhDs in clinical psychology or developmental psychology and are from doctoral programs with varied emphases including those with and without a traditional pediatric psychology focus. Our academic ranks include Associate and Full Professors. Many of us have received federally funded grants. Our scholarship uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. We strive toward antidiscrimination in our editorial efforts.

Editor:

Avani Modi, PhD,  is a Professor and Interim Division Director in Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati-College of Medicine. She is the Director of the Center for Adherence and Self-Management at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her research focuses on adherence and self-management in chronic conditions, including epilepsy, kidney transplantation, and bipolar disorder. She has several grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health evaluating behavioral and family-based interventions to improve adherence and outcomes. Dr. Modi has over 175 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and has received numerous national/local honors and awards. Find Dr. Modi on Twitter: @AvaniModi5.

Associate Editors:

Katie Devine, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. She serves as the Chief for the Pediatric Population Science, Outcomes, and Disparities Research Section within the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Her research focuses on the psychosocial aspects of pediatric, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivorship, including patient and family adaptation to illness, adherence to medical recommendations and survivorship care, transition from pediatric to adult healthcare, and self-management and health promotion for survivors. Find Dr. Devine on Twitter @katieanndevine. 

Kurt A. Freeman, PhD, ABPP is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He holds the Fred Fax Professorship for Pediatric Excellence. Dr. Freeman directs the OHSU Institute on Development and Disability, which is comprised of approximately 150 faculty and staff dedicated to improving the lives of those with disabilities and special health needs through excellence in clinical care, scholarship, public health and advocacy, and education and training of professionals. His research interests are non-condition specific and focus on behavioral interventions, parenting strategies, adherence, primary care psychology, and continence/elimination disorder issues experienced by those with and without disabilities. 

Marisa Hilliard PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. She directs the Resilience and Diabetes (RAD) Behavioral Research Lab, which primarily focuses on the application of positive psychology and the science of health behavior change to improve psychosocial, behavioral, and health outcomes of youth and young adults with type 1 diabetes and their families. With NIH and foundation funding, her research program includes intervention studies, measure development, and qualitative research. Find Dr. Hilliard on Twitter at @mhill226 and @RADLab_T1D.

Chad D. Jensen, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University where he serves as Director of Clinical Training in Clinical Psychology. His research program focuses on health neuroscience and health promotion related to modifiable child health behaviors, including eating, physical activity, and sleep, with the goal of translating findings from neural and behavioral sciences into clinical practice in pediatric psychology.





Emily Law, PhD, is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Kansas Medical Center. Her research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and is focused on the development and evaluation of digital health interventions for youth with chronic pain who have comorbid conditions such as poor sleep. You can learn more about the projects in her research lab here. In addition to her research activities, Dr. Law provides clinical service to children and adolescents with headache disorders in the Multidisciplinary Headache Program at Seattle Children’s Hospital.



Cecelia Valrie, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Health Psychology Program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She is also the director of the VCU Health and Development Lab and Chair of the Culture, Race, and Health Transdisciplinary Core of the VCU Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry, and Innovation. Her research interests include improving the health outcomes of youth with sickle cell disease and Black youth, with a focus on understanding and addressing persistent pain, sleep problems, and health inequities. Find Dr. Valrie on Twitter @DrCeceliaValrie. 

 

Editorial Assistant:

Susan Wood, has served as the journal’s Editorial Assistant since 2007, working with Drs. Dennis Drotar, Grayson Holmbeck, Tonya Palermo, and Avani Modi.  Susan lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

Assistant Editors for Transparent Reporting:

Andrea Fidler, PhD, MPH is a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Child Behavior and Nutrition at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Her research broadly focuses on understanding and improving children's sleep. She is particularly interested in sleep within the context of pediatric hospitalizations. She currently serves as a Trainee Representative on SPP’s Membership Committee. She was previously a Training Program Dissemination Co-Chair on the SPP Student Advisory Board. Find Andrea on Twitter @AndreaLFidler.

 

 

Kelly Rea, MS is a predoctoral psychology intern in the Department of Pediatrics, C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan Health System. Kelly’s research interests include how psychosocial functioning evolves over time among children with end-stage organ failure and pediatric solid organ transplant recipients, with particular interest in unique periods of vulnerability, such as during the transition from pediatric to adult healthcare, for which she received a 2021 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship through the American Psychological Foundation to complete her dissertation. Kelly previously served as an SPP Student Advisory Board Member and Student Representative for the SPP Solid Organ Transplant Special Interest Group. Find Kelly on Twitter @kellyerea

 

Editorial Board:

Nicole M. Alberts, PhD
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Christina M. Amaro, PhD 
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Bridget Armstrong, PhD
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

Dana Bakula, PhD
Children’s Mercy Kansas City & University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA

Lamia P. Barakat, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Luisa Barros, PhD
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Carolyn R. Bates, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

Amy Baughcum, PhD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

Sarah J. Beal, PhD
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Kristoffer S. Berlin, PhD
The University of Memphis, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis TN, USA 

Maureen M. Black, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine, RTI International, Baltimore, MD, USA

Doug Bodin, PhD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

Katelynn Boerner, PhD
BC Children’s Hospital, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Shana Boyle, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville, FL, USA

Ronald Brown, PhD
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Lisa M Buckloh, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville, FL, USA

E. Thomaseo Burton, PhD, MPH, ABPP
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

Line Caes, PhD
University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

Kimberly Canter, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE, USA

Lisa M. Clifford, PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Lindsey L. Cohen, PhD
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Christopher C. Cushing, PhD
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Amy Damashek, PhD
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Amanda D. Deacy, PhD
Children’s Mercy Kansas City, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine Kansas City, MO, USA

Rocio de la Vega, PhD
University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

Joanne Dudeney, PhD
Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, AU

Danny C. Duke, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

Christina L. Duncan, PhD
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Michelle Eakin, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Cyd Eaton, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Paul Enlow, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE, USA

Robin Everhart, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Jessica Fales, PhD
Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA

David Fedele, PhD, ABPP
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Sara J. Fligelman, PsyD
Seattle Children’s Hospital/University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

Emily Fredericks, PhD
University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Cynthia A. Gerhardt, PhD
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

Emily Gerstein, PhD
University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

Leilani Greening, PhD
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

Shanna Guilfoyle, PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Linda Herbert, PhD
Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA

Aimee Hildenbrand, PhD,
Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE, USA

Matthew C. Hocking, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Grayson N. Holmbeck, PhD
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Kevin A. Hommel, PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Anna Hood, PhD
Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Kristen Hoskinson, PhD
Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

Christopher D. Houck, PhD
Brown Medical School/Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center, Providence, RI, USA

Jeannette Iskander, PhD
Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, OH, USA

Lisa M. Jacola, PhD, ABPP-CN
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

Sarah Jaser, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Abbie Jordan, PhD
Department of Psychology and Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath, UK

Rebecca C. Kamody, PhD
Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA

Bryan T. Karazsia, PhD
College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, USA

Cynthia Karlson, PhD
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

Astrida Seja Kaugars, PhD
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Anne E. Kazak, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE, USA

Jessica Kichler, PhD
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario

Karen Liller, PhD
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

Crystal S. Lim, PhD
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

Eleanor Mackey, PhD
Children’s National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

Meghan Marsac, PhD
Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Lexington, KY, USA

Meghan E. McGrady, PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Linda G. McWhorter, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA, USA

Victoria Miller, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Barbara Morrongiello, PhD
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Larry L. Mullins, PhD
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA

Timothy Nelson, PhD
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

Melanie Noel, PhD
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Ahna Pai, PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Jackie L. Papadakis, PhD
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE, USA

Jessica Pierce, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Orlando, FL, USA

Jodie M. Plumert, PhD
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

Alexandra Psihogios, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ashley Ramos, PhD
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA

Joseph R. Rausch, PhD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

Bonney Reed, PhD
Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA

Graham Reid, PhD
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

Andrew Riley, PhD
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

Jennifer M. Rohan, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA

Melissa Santos
Connecticut Children’s/University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, CT, USA

Amy Sato, PhD
Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

Alyssa Schlenz, PhD
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

David C. Schwebel, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Mariella M. Self, PhD, ABPP
Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

Christina M. Sharkey, PhD
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA

Katianne M. Howard Sharp, PhD
Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

Jiabin Shen, PhD
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA

Stacey L. Simon, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

Aimee W. Smith, PhD
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

Erica Sood, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE, USA

Olivia R. Soutullo, PhD
Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

Despina Stavrinos, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Amanda Stone, PhD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

Kristina I. Suorsa-Johnson, PhD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT,  USA

Reem Tarazi, PhD, ABPP
Tower Health Medical Group, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Idia B. Thurston, PhD
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Rachel Tillery Webster, PhD
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

Paige J. Trojanowski, PhD
University of Colorado, Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, Aurora, CO, USA

Carrie B. Tully, PhD
Children’s National Hospital, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

Jason Van Allen, PhD
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

Deborah Waber, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Janelle Wagner, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Dustin P. Wallace, PhD 
Children’s Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA

Rachel Wasserman, PhD
Nemours Children’s Health, Orlando, FL, USA

Jill Weissberg-Benchell, PhD
Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

Sarah Westen, PhD
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Deborah Wiebe, PhD
University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA

Beth Wildman, PhD
Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

JPP Social Media Chair 

Alexandra Monzon, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science at Nemours Children’s Health – Florida. Her research has focused on caregiver functioning and individual factors that impact health behaviors (i.e., sleep, nutrition) in youth with type 1 diabetes. She is interested in utilizing innovative technologies to measure individual factors and outcomes of interest as they relate to health disparities in groups experiencing barriers to care during postdoc. She previously served as a Student Campus Representative for SPP and a Trainee Member-at-Large on the SPP Diabetes SIG board. Find Alex on Twitter at @Alex__Monzon.

 

JPP Student Journal Club Chairs 

Karen Dimentstein, MS, MPH is a fourth-year Clinical Psychology PhD student at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL who completed her MPH at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2019. Karen serves on the SPP Student Advisory Board as a Podcast Co-Chair and as a Trainee Member-at-Large on the Diabetes Special Interest Group Board. Her research focuses on health disparities in type 1 diabetes treatment, adherence, and outcomes. She is also interested in public health, health promotion, and health policy. Find Karen on Twitter at @karend1293.

 

 

 

Caroline Roberts, PhD is a clinical and research pediatric psychology post-doctoral fellow at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital. She is the current Research Student Representative for the American Psychological Association- Division 54 Society of Pediatric Psychology Pediatric Gastroenterology Special Interest Group. She previously served as a SPP Student Advisory Board Member, Co-Chair of the Network of Campus Representatives, and member of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology Student Journal Club. Her research focuses on youth illness management and psychosocial adjustment to chronic illnesses and the role of technology, health communication, social support, and family variables. Find Caroline on Twitter at @CM_Roberts

2023 SPP Board of Directors

Melissa Santos, PhD – President

Laura E. Simons, PhD – Past President

Cynthia Gerhardt, PhD – President Elect

Gayle Chesley, PhD – Treasurer

Tammi Young-Saleme, PhD – Secretary

Sunnye Mayes, PhD, ABPP – Member at Large

Christina Low Kapalu, PhD – Member at Large

Eleanor Mackey, PhD – Member at Large

Megan Cohen, PhD – Member at Large

Terry Stancin, PhD, ABPP – APA Council Representative

Idia Thurston, PhD – APA Council Representative

Perry A. Catlin, MS – Student Representative

Dustin P. Wallace, PhD – Web Master and Listserv Manager

Michael Roberts, PhD, ABPP – Historian

Robin Everhart, PhD – Past Treasurer

Avani Modi, PhD –Editor, Journal of Pediatric Psychology

Christina Duncan, PhD – Editor, Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology

Elvin Thomaseo Burton, PhD, MPH, ABPP – APA Program Chair

Colleen Stiles-Shields, PhD – APA Program Co-Chair

Naadira Upshaw, PhD – SPPAC Program Chair

Lauren Harrison, PhD – SPPAC Program Co-Chair