Current Lab Member Bios

Brianna Clyde Hailey, Research Assistant
Brianna Clyde Hailey (B.A., 2007, Columbia University) served with AmeriCorps for a year in North Carolina before joining Dr. Beebe's lab as the research coordinator. She is a second-year student in Columbia's Psychology Certificate Program.

Julia Reuben, Research Assistant
Julia Reuben will be completing her Bachelor's degree at Columbia University in 2011. She is interested in pursuing a PhD in clinical psychology, with a specific focus on infant-parent attachment relationships.

Nidhi Parashar, Research Assistant
Nidhi Parashar received her MSW from University of Delhi, India. She has prior clinical and research experience from India. She is interested in studying risk and resilience in "at risk" children from a neuropsychology perspective. She wants to study biological risk factors such as brain abnormalities, genetics and neurohormones and their interaction with psychosocial risk factors among children. She plans to pursue a PhD in Psychology or Neuroscience.

Jessica Latack, Research Assistant
Jessica Latack completed her B.A. in psychology at the University of Michigan in 2002, and her M.S. in clinical psychology at Eastern Michigan University in 2006. Jessica studied at the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development concurrently to completing her Master's degree. Jessica currently devotes her time to Dr. Beebe's laboratory and the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at NYSPI. She is broadly interested in infant mental health and attachment. Jessica hopes to begin doctoral training in clinical psychology in 2011.

Robbie Ross, Research Assistant
Robbie Ross (B.S., Tulane University, 2005) is currently completing post-baccalaureate work in the Psychology Department at Columbia University. In addition to her work in Dr. Beebe's Lab, she is a research assistant on the Barnard Columbia Personality Study in the Social Relations Lab at Columbia University. She hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology studying children with developmental disorders.

Danny Sims, Research Assistant
Danny Sims graduated Amherst College '05 with a degree in Art History. He is interested in pursuing a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology.

Greer Raggio, Research Assistant
Greer recently earned a Master in Public Health from Columbia University. She works full-time as a Data Analyst at NYSPI in the Hispanic Treatment Program in addition to her role as a coder in Dr. Beebe's lab. Eventually, she hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Priscilla Caldwell, Research Assistant
Priscilla Caldwell (B.A., Barnard College '03, M.Ed., Mercy College '05) is currently in her seventh year of teaching at a public elementary school in the Bronx. A former NYC Teaching Fellow, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in School Psychology.

Hope Iglehart, Research Assistant
Hope Iglehart is a trained psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a memeber of the New York Freudian Society, and is interested in the use of empirical data to support psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic concepts.

Elizabeth White, Research Assistant
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Elizabeth White holds a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Columbia University. At Columbia she focused extensively on the mother-child matrix and its influence on interpersonal
communication style. Her master’s thesis focused on identity disturbance as they relate to marital and maternal satisfaction. Elizabeth’s current research interests focus on interactive communication, with particular emphasis on mother and child relationships. Besides her research on mother-infant communication at New York State Psychiatric Institute, Elizabeth worked on an Institute of Education Sciences funded project examining the interactions between teachers and students in New York City public school classrooms.

Yana Kuchirko, Research Assistant
Yana Kuchirko is currently a masters student at New York University and will pursue her PhD in human deveopment. Her research interests include ways that cultural and contextual factors shape child development.

Current Phd Students: Paulette Landesman, Glenn Bromley, Robert Gallagher, Naomi Cohen.

Former Lab Members

We have been lucky to work with many wonderful students over the years. Below is a list of our former lab members:

Former PhD Students: Lisa Marquette, Caroline Flaster, Patricia Goodman, Jill Putterman, Limor Kaufman-Balamuth, Elizabeth Helbraun, Shanee Stepakoff, Donna Demetri-Friedman, Michael Hager-Budny, Greg Kushnick, Helen Demetriades, Allyson Hentel, Tammy Kaminer, Sara Hahn-Burke, Nancy Freeman, Alan Phelan, Dnaille Phelan, Tina Lupi, Michael Ritter, Irena Milentevic, Marina Koulomzin, Jeri Kronen, Jill Miller, Victoria Garel, Leslie Mcihael.

Former Lab Assistants: Adrianne Lange, Jane Roth, Sandra Triggs-Kano, Laura Ellman, Alina Pavalokos, Kate Liberman, Kara Levin, Joseph McGowan, Sarah Miller, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Max Miltzky, Helen Weng, Lauren Cooper, Jessica Silverman, Glenn Bromley, Michael Klein, Annee Ackerman, Sam Marcus, Iskra Smiljanic, Jenny Lotterman, Gena Bresgi, Ali Pivar, Christy Meyer, Emily Brodie, Sandy Seal, Claudia Andri, Nina Finkel, Adrienne Lapidous, Sandy Seal, Nicholas Seivert, Linda Rindlaub, Abby Herzig, Sonya Sonpal, Imran Khan, Julia Disenko, Michelle Lee, Hwe Sze Lim, Marina Tasopoulous, Emlyn Capili, Jessica Sarnicola, Nancy Richardson, Nicole Seltzer, Heather Chan, Eunice Lee, Catherine Man, Leslie Michael, Rhonda Davis, Victoria Garel, Sarah Temech, Alla Chavarga, Kari Gray, TJ Gambrel.