External Advisory Board

Catherine A. Hartley, PhD, New York University

Catherine Hartley is an associate professor of psychology and neural science at New York University. Her research focuses on characterizing the changes in cognitive representations and computations that inform learning and decision-making across development, and how dynamic changes in brain circuits give rise to these processes.

A goal of her research is to understand the costs and benefits associated with how individuals learn and make decisions at different developmental stages, as well as how specific learning and decision-making biases contribute to psychological vulnerability or resilience. She sits on the board of the Society for Neuroeconomics, the Social Affective Neuroscience Society, and the Flux Society, and is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She received her B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University, her Ph.D. in psychology from New York University, and conducted her postdoctoral training at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Bruce F. Chorpita, PhD, University of California

Dr. Chorpita is a professor of psychology and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the lead developer for the intensive component of PRIDE, a project designed to develop, test, and disseminate effective treatments and training models for lay counselors to address anxiety, depression, and anger problems in adolescents in India. He is the principal investigator for the Reaching Families multisite trial and the lead author of the MATCH-ADTC protocol.

Previously, he held a faculty position with the department of psychology at the University of Hawaii, and he served as the clinical director of the Hawaii Department of Health's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division. His ongoing research is aimed at improving the effectiveness of mental health service systems for children through innovation in mental health treatment design, clinical decision-making, information-delivery models, and service system architecture. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Chris Mungall, PhD, Berkeley Lab

Licong Cui, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Dr. Kassam-Adams leads the Child Trauma Data Archives (CTDA: childtraumadata.org), an international collaboration initiated in 2009 that maintains a set of unique research resources - accessible and re-usable data archives that bring together individual participant data (IPD) from child trauma studies and provide support for harmonization and integrative use of these data in novel cross-study analyses.

Since 2019, she has led the FAIR Data Theme workgroup of the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (global-psychotrauma.net/fair). In 2021 she founded the nonprofit Trauma Data Institute (traumaresearchdata.org), and now serves as Executive Chair of the TDI board. In each of these roles, she is actively engaged in promoting data sharing and FAIR data practices in our field. This includes ongoing international collaborative efforts to develop taxonomies and harmonization approaches for annotating and integrating IPD and study-level data in traumatic stress.

As one example, in September 2023 the FAIR Data Theme and the Trauma Data Institute jointly convened a virtual summit of researchers who have led integrative data projects, to collaborate on development of tools (including ontology development) to support data sharing and re-use in the traumatic stress field.