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