Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Overview

Dr. Modrowski is an Assistant Professor of Research at the Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and a Research Psychologist with Rhode Island Hospital Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Bradley/Hasbro Children's Research Center. Dr. Modrowski earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and her PhD in Clinical Psychology (Children & Families Concentration) from the University of Utah. Dr. Modrowski completed her predoctoral residency through Brown’s Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program and completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship at Brown. Dr. Modrowski’s program of research focuses on examining the sequelae of trauma and maltreatment exposure in youth involved in the juvenile justice system. She is particularly interested in investigating risk and protective factors associated with crossing over from child welfare to juvenile justice system involvement. Dr. Modrowski’s clinical interests involve adolescent mental health, with a specific focus on at-risk populations, including justice-involved adolescents and adolescents with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. In addition to collaborating with other DPHB faculty on NIH-funded grants, Dr. Modrowski serves as the Director of the Court Improvement Project and consulting psychologist at the Rhode Island Family Court and the Rhode Island Training School.

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