Kristin E. Canavera - Virginia Tech

Kristin Canavera
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Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, MA
2005-07 Research Coordinator
Project: Intensive Treatment of Adolescent Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
Duties: Coordinated NIMH-funded treatment study; conducted follow-up assessments and
administered measures; ensured protocol adherence; recruited subjects; organized ongoing data
collection; created and maintain study webpage
Principle Investigators: David H. Barlow, Ph.D. and Donna Pincus, Ph.D.
2005-07 Research Coordinator
Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program
Duties: Assisted in preparation and submission of grant applications; assisted therapists with
exposures; administered questionnaires/measures; attended weekly supervision meetings;
supervised ongoing data management of all program databases
Directors: David H. Barlow, Ph.D., Donna Pincus, Ph.D., and Jill T. Ehrenreich, Ph.D.
2005-07 Research Assistant
Project: Treatment of Separation Anxiety Disorder in Childhood
Duties: Assisted with development of parent-child interaction coding manual; recruit subjects;
trained on behavioral observation coding system for reliability; train graduate students and
research assistants to use data coding system
Principle Investigator: Donna Pincus, Ph.D.
Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights and Harvard Medical School/ Children’s
Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, 2006-07
2006-07 Volunteer
Project: Stigma and PTSD in Refugee Adolescents
Duties: Data entry; project examined how stigma (of race, religion, refugee status, and mental
illness) relates to mental health outcomes in Somali adolescents resettled in the U.S.
Principle Investigator: Heidi Ellis, Ph.D.
Developmental Psychopathology Lab, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2003-05 Master’s Thesis: Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors in Typically Developing Children:
Executive Functions, Behavior Problems, and Fears
Duties: Designed and conducted study investigating the prevalence of repetitive habits and
rituals in children and neuropsychological components associated with these behaviors;
administered neuropsychological and cognitive tasks assessing executive functions (e.g., CPT,
WCST, Stroop, verbal fluency, etc.); administered intelligence test (K-Bit) and questionnaires to
children and parents; recruited subjects; trained undergraduates in assessment, coding, and
scoring
Advisor: David W. Evans, Ph.D.
2003-04 Research Assistant
Project: Children’s Rituals and Executive Function: Insights from the Neurobiology of
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Duties: Trained in administering, scoring, and coding neuropsychological tasks
Supervisor: David W. Evans, Ph.D.
Furman University, Greenville, SC
2001-02 Senior Thesis: Alcohol Withdrawal as an Unconditioned Stimulus in a Pavlovian Odor
Conditioning Model
Duties: Conducted study using animal model and place-preference tests; wrote senior thesis;
presented findings in oral defense