Esther Howe CV - Fall 2020

ESTHER HOWE

1811 Rose Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 howe@berkeley.edu +1 (617) 669-3736 EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology Clinical Psychology, GPA: 3.952

2018-Present

Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA) Bachelor of Arts with Honors Interdisciplinary Social Science Curriculum in Gender Studies

2007-2011

HONORS AND AWARDS ABCT CMIV SIG Student Research Grant Award APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship Honorable Mention Wilson Grant for Enterprise and Leadership, Grinnell College Global Development Foreign Language and Service Fellowship, Grinnell College Spencer Award for Study and Travel, Grinnell College Rosenthal Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Grinnell College Thomas and Charlotte Taylor Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Grinnell College Richard T. Cervene ’51 Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Grinnell College

2020 2019 2010 2009 2009 2007-2011 2008-2011 2009-2011

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Idiographic Dynamics Lab University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Role: Doctoral Student Mentor: Aaron Fisher, PhD

2018-Present

The Depression Clinical and Research Program Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA) Role: Program Coordinator/Clinical Research Coordinator Mentors: Paola Pedrelli, PhD, Maren Nyer, PhD, David Mischoulon, MD, PhD, Jonathan Alpert, MD, PhD

2016-2018

Nock Lab Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Role: Volunteer Research Assistant Mentor: Matthew K. Nock, PhD

2016-2017

The Moral Psychology Research Lab Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Role: Volunteer Research Assistant Mentor: Fiery Cushman, PhD

2015- 2016

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of California, Berkeley Role: Graduate Student Instructor Courses: ● Fall 2020: Health Psychology (Aaron Fisher, PhD) ● Fall 2019: Introduction to Sleep (Matthew Walker, PhD) ● Spring 2019: Introduction to Psychology (Arman Catterson, PhD) ● Fall 2018: Introduction to Biological Psychology (Joni Wallis, PhD) CLINICAL EXPERIENCE UC Berkeley Psychology Clinic University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Role: Clinician Supervisors: Gary Schaller, PhD, Rochelle Frank, PhD, Nancy Liu, PhD

08/2018-Present

08/2019-Present

Stress and Health Research Program San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (San Francisco, CA) Role: Clinical Interviewer Supervisors: Jennifer Hlavin, MS, Thomas Neylan, MD

06/2020-Present

Boston Area Rape Crisis Hotline Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (Boston, MA) Role: Hotline Peer Supervisor and Counselor Supervisor: Jesse Moskowitz

08/2015-06/2018

Waqe3 for Community Development McGill University/University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan) Role: Psychosocial Program Manager, Combating Violence Against Women Program Supervisors: Talal Al-Qdah, PhD, James Torczyner, PhD

09/2013-02/2015

MANUSCRIPTS Howe, E., Bosley, H. G., & Fisher, A. J. (2020). Idiographic network analysis of discrete mood states prior to treatment. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.

Howe, E.*, Shdo, S. M.*, Elliot, M.V.*, Hua, A.Y., Tang, N.M., Dronkers, N.F., Levenson, R.W. (under review). Design and Implementation of a Clinical Science Specialty Clinic for Adults with Neurological Disorders and Their Caregivers. *these authors contributed equally to this work.

Pedrelli, P., Fedor, S., Ghandeharioun, A., Howe, E., Ionescu, D., Bathena, B., Dording, C., Fisher, L., Cusin, C., Nyer, M., Yeung, A., Sangermano, L., Mischoulon, D., Alpert, J., Picard, R. (under review). Monitoring changes in depression severity using wearable and mobile sensors. Frontiers Psychiatry.

Mischoulon, D., Carpenter, L. L., Tyrka, A. R., Price, L. H., Clain, A. J., Parnarouskis, L., Howe, E., Papakostas, G. I., Fava, M. (under review). Cross-over therapy with escitalopram plus SAMe following failure to respond to either therapy alone: results from an open-phase follow-up to a randomized clinical trial.

Howe, E., Reeves, J., Fisher, A.J. (in preparation). Discrete symptom states provide targets for momentary intervention in PTSD: Identification and prediction of latent intraindividual symptom classes.

Howe, E., Bosley, H.G., Fisher, A.J. (in preparation). Emotion dynamics as higher-order transdiagnostic predictors of psychopathology.

Howe, E., Jaroszewski, A., Nock, M. (in preparation). The association between recent suicidal thoughts and domainspecific risk-taking attitudes.

BOOK CHAPTERS Nishimi, L., Howe, E., Dunn, E. (2019). Social determinants of psychiatric illness. In N. Trinh & J. Chen (Eds.), Sociocultural issues in psychiatry. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Pedrelli, P., Bentley, K., Howe, E., Mischoulon, D. (2019). Technology in the treatment of depression. In B. Shapero & C. Cusin (Eds.), The Massachusetts General Hospital guide to depression. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS Howe, E., Fisher, A. (2020, November). Vector Autoregressive Models of Discrete Physiological States: An Idiographic Examination of Autonomic Nervous System Regulation in Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Clinical Research Methods & Statistics Special Interest Group. The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention, online.

Howe, E., Reeves, J., Fisher, A. (2019, November). Shame and physiological arousal in survivors of adult sexual assault: An idiographic network approach. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Boston, MA.

Howe, E., Reeves, J., Fisher, A. (2019, November). Intraindividual dynamics of shame and arousal in survivors of sexual assault: A preliminary examination. The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA. Howe, E., Nauphal, M., Bosley, H., Ghandeharioun, A., Bentley, K., Shapero, B., Fedor, S., Picard, R., Mischoulon, D., Pedrelli, P. (2018, November). Depression and emotional reactivity: a close examination of daily variation in affect. The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention, Washington, DC. Howe, E., Ghandeharioun, A., Pedrelli, P., Mischoulon, D., Picard, R., Fedor, S. (2017, November). Location patterns from phone sensors may help predict depressive symptoms: a longitudinal pilot study. The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention – Tech SIG, San Diego, CA. Howe, E., Pedrelli, P., Morris, R., Nyer, M., Mischoulon, D., Picard, R. (2017, October). Feasibility of an automated system counselor for survivors of sexual assault. Connected Health Conference, Boston, MA. Pedrelli, P., Howe, E., Mischoulon, D., Picard, R., Ghandeharioun, A., Fedor, S. (2017, October). Integrating EMA, clinical assessment and wearable sensors to examine the association between MDD and alcohol use. Connected Health Conference, Boston, MA. Howe, E., Parnarouskis, L., Nauphal, M., Mischoulon, D., Nyer, M. (2017, August). Heated yoga increases positive affect and decreases negative affect for individuals with depressive symptoms. The 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), Washington, DC. Parnarouskis, L., Howe, E., Pedrelli, P. (2017, August). College students’ adherence to therapy for comorbid binge drinking and depressive symptoms. The 125th annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), Washington, DC. Howe, E., Pedrelli, P., Morris, R., Nyer, M., Mischoulon, D., Picard, R. (2017, April). Concept poster: Feasibility of an automated system counselor for survivors of sexual assault. The Annual Harvard Psychiatry Research Day, Boston, MA. PRESENTATIONS Howe, E., Pedrelli, P., Morris, R., Nyer, M., Mischoulon, D., Picard, R. (2017, November). Feasibility of an automated system counselor for survivors of sexual assault. In K. Tomasino (Chair), Technology Special Interest Group Ignite Sessions. The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Editorial Assistant for Nhi-Ha Trinh, MD, MPH and Justin Chen, MD, MPH, Sociocultural issues in psychiatry, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Manuscript Review for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 2019 ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE The Department of Psychiatry Center for Diversity Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA) Role: Administrative Assistant Supervisor: Nhi-Ha Trinh, MD, MPH Boston Education, Skills & Training (Boston, MA) Role: Program Manager / Development Associate Supervisor: Joan Abbot, M.Ed. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Graduate Assembly of Students in Psychology University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Role: Travel Grants Coordinator

2016-2018

2012-2016

2019-2020

The Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) Role: Clinical Science Colloquium Committee PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) ● Technology Special Interest Group ● CMIV Special Interest Group American Psychological Association (APA) ● Society of Clinical Psychology Division 12 of the APA

2019-2020

2017-Present 2017-Present 2020-Present 2017-Present 2017-Present

SKILLS Research: R, Qualtrics, REDCap, AcqKnowledge/BIOPAC, Empatica E4 sensors, phlebotomy Clinical: Crisis counseling, suicide risk assessment (trained by Matthew Nock, PhD), Individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, MINI Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) and the Structured Interview for DSM-5 (SCID-5) Languages: English (native), Modern Standard Arabic (advanced), Jordanian Arabic (conversant)