我是阿克伦儿童医院的医务人员. I am the director of the Tic and Tourette Service, a multidisciplinary program for children with Tourette’s/motor and vocal tics. I am also the psychologist in the School Success Clinic, providing multidisciplinary evaluations to help identify the factors affecting a child’s difficulties in school performance.
选择合适的大学
Mount Union was the first institution that I looked it during my college search, and it thus became the bar and the standard that I used to compare all other universities during the college selection process. 我参观过的其他学校都无法与之相比. 通宵活动, 校园之旅, opportunity to interview for the presidential scholarship, and getting to know my admission representative (Hi, 丰富的杰克逊!)让我坚定了这个决定.
特殊的能力
I feel like the individual attention to each student’s growth and development within a liberal arts model really makes UMU a standout. I liked that I knew my professors, and my professors knew me. There were so many important faculty that really had an incredible impact on my personal and professional identity- to just name a few, Drs. Kramer, Jones-Walker and Muller (心理学), Drs. Coleman and Eicholtz(通讯)和Dr. Piker-King(社会学).
实践实习
As I knew that my long term plan was to go graduate school and become a child-oriented psychologist, I felt that an undergraduate internship was imperative, especially in the very competitive graduate applicant process. So, I actually cold-called the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism in the spring of my Junior year at UMU- at the time, CCCA不太了解我们的机构, 而且肯定对我一无所知. It was probably one of the most ambitious things I have ever done- because I really had to prove myself. I interviewed and worked for free the summer of 2006, being paid only in experience. That summer was one of the most important experiences of my life and has opened up every door I can think of professionally. 在CCCA度过了美妙的暑假之后, I returned to my home faculty and classmates to talk to share these experiences. 以此为基础，建立了Mount外展. 11年后, the OAM program has expanded to become a really unique and priceless opportunity for UMU students.
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我是一个预览和方向指南, 住宿生活项目助理, the President of Janus (a social responsibility club), 导游, 心理学俱乐部的成员, 光谱, IVOP, and part of the “Greening” of Mount through 可持续性 Initiatives…you could say I was busy! 通过像Janus这样的俱乐部, 光谱和(现在被恰当地称为)绿色突袭者, I learned how make systemic-level changes to make the university a more tolerant and socially just place. This has been an absolute keystone to my ethos and world outlook. Being a Preview Guide and part of Residence Life taught me outstanding program development skills that I have used to get the Tic and Tourette Service from an idea to a clinic here at Akron Children’s Hospital.
离开联合山后的生活
I have a Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Developmental 心理学 from Lehigh University (2010) and a PhD in Pediatric School 心理学 from Lehigh University (2015). I also completed my residency/clinical internship at Rutgers University Behavioral Health and Robert Wood Johnson (2015) and a post-doctoral Fellowship at Akron Children’s Hospital (2016). After being out on the east coast for almost a decade, 我们愉快地回到了俄亥俄州东北部, 让我重新连接到UMU. I recently participated in the “Dinner with 12 Strangers” event, 从那天晚上开始, have helped mentor other 心理学 majors who are going through the graduate application process.
这是我工作中最棒的部分
我有世界上最好的工作! I provide care to some really amazing children from all over NE Ohio. The children I serve are always keeping me guessing and laughing. I never know what each day might bring, which is something I really enjoy about my job. 昨天来了超级英雄擦窗工! 上周, 我们在医院开了个嘉年华, 上一周, Brad Paisley contacted one of my patients- life is good.