Research Team
Research Leads
Katherine Elkington, PhD
Associate Professor,
Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry),
Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Milton Wainberg, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry,
Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Margaret E. Ryan, MPH
Project Director, Project Opioid Court REACH, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Implementation & Development Team
Corianna Sichel, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Ikenna Achebe, MD, MPH, MA
Senior Program Associate, Project Opioid Court REACH, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Kuljit Kaur, MPH
Research Assistant, Project Opioid Court REACH, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Rosheka Faulkner, MCJ
Research Assistant, Project Opioid Court REACH, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Alexandra Arnold, MA
Research Assistant, Project Opioid Court REACH, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Jiaxin Santos, BA
Research Assistant, Project Opioid Court REACH, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Kedron Hoepstine, MSW, MS
Research Assistant, Project Opioid Court REACH, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Megan O’Grady, PhD
Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Arthur Robin Williams, MD, MBE
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Division on Substance Use Disorders
Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Susan Tross, PhD
Professor, Clinical Medical Psychology in Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Dan Winetsky, MD, MS
Clinical Infectious Disease Specialist
Postdoctoral Fellow, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
Al Cohall, MD
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences and Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Patrick Wilson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Cost-Effectiveness Team
Danielle Ryan, MPH
Research Coordinator, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College
Techna Cadet, MS
Research Coordinator, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College
Data Team
Melanie Wall, PhD
Director of Mental Health Data Science in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene
Renald Dambreville, MS
Biostatistician, Mental Health Data Science, Columbia University, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, New York State Psychiatric Institute