Kendra Onoh, Pharm.D. Candidate, is a fourth-year professional pharmacy student at St. Louis College of Pharmacy at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy. She received her bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences with an emphasis in Health Sciences through the college in 2019, graduating Summa Cum Laude. Ms. Onoh is currently the historian for Rho Chi Honor Society, Beta Kappa Chapter and the mental health chair for Student National Pharmacist Association. In addition to her pharmacy intern license, immunization certification, and basic life support training, Ms.

Kelly Birmingham-Watts is a Postdoctoral Resident with the Center for OCD and Anxiety-Related Disorders (COARD).  Kelly uses evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy to treat patients in the Intensive Outpatient Program, individual therapy, and Social Anxiety Exposure Group that she co-facilitates with Dr. VanDyke. She completed her Psy.D. requirements from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and her Predoctoral internship with the St. Louis Psychology Internship Consortium.

Member Since 2018

Heather L Rusch, PhD, is a Clinical Investigator at the National Institutes of Health and recipient of the 2020 Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Award. Her research is mainly focused on developing innovative diagnostics and therapeutics for the treatment of trauma-related disorders, including PTSD. She investigates a range of psychological, neural, and molecular markers to better understand the factors that may increase human resilience in the face of traumatic stress.

Michelle Pievsky, Ph.D. is a child psychologist at Lifespan in Providence, RI. She works alongside a team of developmental behavioral pediatricians, neurologists, geneticists, social workers, and community counselors at the Children's Neurodevelopment Center. She also is part of a team that is integrating behavioral health into Lifespan's large pediatric primary care clinic, located at Hasbro Hospital. Dr. Pievsky received her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Yale University in 2008 and her Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2018.

Dr. Avery-Peck received her Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University, a Master of Education in Counseling and Sport Psychology from Boston University and a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Boston University. She completed an APA Accredited predoctoral internship at Florida Atlantic University’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Dr. Avery-Peck was trained in cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy at the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program, a division of McLean Hospital’s Child and Adolescent Services.

Wendy Chung serves as the principal investigator of SPARK, overseeing all aspects of SPARK development, with an emphasis on genetic research components of the project. She is also the P.I. for the Simons Variation in Individuals Project, which characterizes behavior and brain structure and function in participants with genetic variants believed to play a role in autism spectrum disorders.