TIPPS Collaborators
Psychology Department Chair, Dr. Lindsey Cohen (formerly Dr. Chris Henrich) is committed to coordinating the complementary goals of the HRSA GPE with those of the department, college, and university. As was done in the prior and current years of the project, Dr. Cohen has committed departmental funds so that HRSA GPE trainees receive tuition waivers. For this proposal, Dr. Cohen has committed to provide $12,000-$15,000 annual funding to part-time trainees to allow them to take part in positions in the department (e.g., teaching assistant for the diversity course) that are consistent with the GPE-project goals. In addition to facilitating the project in the department, Dr. Cohen will assist in dissemination and promotion of the project within the university and the wider community. He is also the TIPPS project director.
Director of Clinical Training at GSU, Dr. Erin Tone (formerly Dr. Dominic Parrott) is also the Chair of the GSU Clinical Psychology program. Her area of clinical and research expertise is in child clinical psychology, and she studies anxiety and relationships. Dr. Tone collaborated on a prior HRSA-funded training project with Dr. Cohen, and Drs. Cohen and Tone have worked together on other training and research endeavors. She is uniquely qualified to assist in the overseeing of the proposed pediatric psychology training program. In her role as DCT, Dr. Tone meets regularly with the clinical faculty to oversee training and also individually with Dr. Cohen regarding the proposed program. Dr. Tone also works closely with Dr. McKee (formerly Dr. Tully), who oversees the practica in the Clinical Psychology program.
TIPPS Advisory Board
Dr. Claire Coles is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Coles’ federally-funded research program focuses on the effects of teratogens on behavior across the lifespan. She is particularly interested in prevention and treatment issues around prenatal exposure to alcohol, cocaine and tobacco. Dr. Coles has a long history of training and lecturing on the impact of substances on the family. Dr. Coles will provide direct supervision of HRSA GPE Fellows on her rotation at Emory Brain Health and lectures for the fellows on prevention and treatment of OUD and SUD as well as the role of psychology in multidisciplinary approaches to OUD and SUD.
Dr. Kyle Frantz is a Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at GSU and Director of the new Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni into Graduate and Professional Programs (CASA). Dr. Frantz brings expertise in a) basic research on adolescent sensitivity to drugs of abuse and b) mentoring and training of students. In addition, Dr. Frantz uses NIH curriculum resources on drug abuse and addiction (e.g., slides on prescription drug abuse) and modules from NIDA’s Centers for Excellence for Physician Information (e.g. case studies on appropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics) in her training programs. At the university level, she teaches psychopharmacology, as well as brain mechanisms of reward and reinforcement. In her research, she investigates neurobehavioral mechanisms of adolescent resistance to some enduring effects of drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, morphine, and heroin, and suggests that neural plasticity might lead to better outcomes for adolescent users who quit drugs early, compared with adults. She has received the university Exceptional Service Award, Panther of the Year Award, and the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Diversity Award and Faculty Mentoring Award.
Dr. Amanda Gilmore is a clinical psychologist and an incoming Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health at GSU. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Gilmore studies prevention and treatment of co-occurring substance use and posttraumatic stress disorders among high-risk populations using tele-behavioral health interventions. She has extensive experience in prevention and secondary treatment of substance use among youth (K23DA042935; PI: Gilmore) and young adults (R34AA025691; PI: Gilmore). Dr. Gilmore has received research and clinical training at Boston Children’s Hospital regarding integrated care treatment of OUD among adolescents and young adults, and she has studied alcohol use among individuals with OUD (Gilmore, Jones, et al., 2018), stress in individuals with OUD (Gilmore et al., 2019), and opioid use as a predictor of suicidal ideation among sexual assault victims (Gilmore, Hahn, et al., 2018). Dr. Gilmore also has extensive experience conducting randomized trials comparing tele-behavioral health to in-person delivery of psychotherapy and found equivalence among the approaches (Acierno, Knapp, Tuerk, Gilmore et al., 2017; Gilmore et al., 2016). She also found that training is essential to combat the barriers of provider attitudes in the provision of psychotherapy via telemedicine (Gilmore & Ward-Ciesielski, 2019). Clinically, Dr. Gilmore has extensive experience in training clinicians on mindfulness-based and cognitive behavioral psychotherapies focused on SUD using tele-behavioral health.
Dr. Gabriel Kuperminc is a Professor of Psychology and Public Health and Director of the doctoral program in community psychology at GSU. Dr. Kuperminc is currently conducting two federally funded evaluations of school and community based youth mentoring programs. He is a research board member of the National Mentoring Resource Center, and he has served as an expert panelist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on youth development approaches to promoting adolescent health across diverse populations. As PI and Co-PI on numerous grants and contracts from federal, state, and private sources, he has conducted large- and small-scale evaluations using methods ranging from qualitative case studies to randomized trials. Dr. Kuperminc brings expertise in a) brief interventions for youth at-risk for OUD and SUD, and b) culturally-sensitive services. Along these lines, Dr. Kuperminc directed the evaluation of Georgia BASICS, a cooperative agreement between SAMHSA and the state of Georgia to implement a program of screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol and drug use in healthcare delivery settings.
Dr. Brigitte Manteuffel is a senior research associate at the Georgia Health Policy Center at GSU. Dr. Manteuffel focuses her work on the opioid epidemic via public policy efforts, direct practice, and research projects. Her knowledge and background addressing the opioid epidemic at these various systemic levels will prove invaluable to the GPE fellows training. Dr. Manteuffel will bring her expertise in a) evidence-based prevention and treatment of behavioral health disorders, b) mixed qualitative and quantitative assessment approaches around youth mental health systems, and c) prevention and treatment of youth SUD to the project and training of the GPE fellows.
TIPPS Psychology Supervisors
The Georgia State University (GSU), Children’s Hospital of Atlanta (CHOA), Emory, Grady, and Veterans Administration (VA) psychologists have excellent clinical careers providing psychosocial services in the greater Atlanta area. All are committed to providing supervision and experiences in line with project goals (e.g., evidence-based practices, culturally-sensitive care, interdisciplinary and integrated services, tele-behavioral healthcare, and prevention and treatment of OUDs and SUDs. In addition to regular 1-hour of direct supervision each week and collaborative service provision, each psychologist involves the student in specialized training in line with project goals and objectives.