Ariela Kaiser
Ari is a sixth-year clinical psychology doctoral student in the YAAAS Lab. She received her bachelor’s in Psychological & Brain Sciences and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016. Following graduation, she completed a post-baccalaureate IRTA fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health, studying reward processing in adolescent depression in Dr. Argyris Stringaris’s Mood, Brain, and Development Unit. Ari’s research interests center on developing innovative, scalable, and cost-effective prevention and intervention programs for youths with and at high risk for depression. Ari is completing her internship at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago during the 2023-2024 year. She has accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Consultation/Liaison Services at Lurie Children’s Hospital.