Members

Graduate Students

• Leanne Kane (2016-2022)

Leanne completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa in 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Ashbaugh. Her doctoral research focused on the role of post-event processing in the maintenance of social anxiety symptoms. She also collaborated on multiple research projects in the areas of anxiety and sexual health. She completed her internship at the Centre for Psychological Services and Research (CPSR) with an external rotation at the Ottawa Hospital. She is completing her supervised practice year under the supervision of Drs. Emma Dargie and Deanna Drahovzal at Gilmour Psychological Services. She provides evidence-based individual therapy services and psychodiagnostic assessments to adults with a range of mental health and health conditions, including working with people who are coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic health conditions, cancer, and sexual health difficulties.

• Stephanie Houle (2015-2022)
• Keera Fishman (2015-2021)

Keera completed her Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology at Queen's University in 2015. She began her graduate studies in the CASL Lab in September 2015 under the supervision of Dr. Ashbaugh. She completed her residency in Clinical Neuropsychology at Baycrest Hospital in Toronto. Currently, she is a Clinical Neuropsychologist at Baycrest Hospital. She conducts neuropsychological assessments for individuals in the Psychiatric Day Hospital and Geriatric Assessment Clinics, supervises neuropsychology residents, and delivers cognitive rehabilitation interventions (e.g., Memory and Aging Program, Learning the ROPES for Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment). She also conducts neuropsychological assessments for individuals in the Geriatrics units at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences via Baycrest Health Sciences. She engages in differential diagnosis of cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, fronto-temporal lobar degeneration, Parkinson’s disease, alcohol use, depression, and neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., schizophrenia). Last, she is completing her postdoctoral fellowship serving as the Neuropsychology Lead for the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI). In this role, she trains coordinators on neuropsychological instrumentation (administration, scoring, data entry), engages in data monitoring, develops clinical/neuropsychology protocols, establishes licensing agreements, contributes to data steering and data curation committee meetings, and collaborates on manuscripts.

• Julia Marinos (2014-2021)

Honours Thesis