Alaina Carr

Experience

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  Arch Lab

  Aug 2010 - May 2013

  Research Assistant

  • Entered data for TSST and created SPSS databases for MBSR and CBT study involving veterans.• Experimenter for a mindfulness eating study: administered questionnaires, collected data, administered food, and debriefing and collected data.• Designed SPSS database for mindfulness eating study and entered data.• Trained in clinical interventions for graduate student’s study involving ACT, CBT, and values.

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  Boulder Institute of Psychotherapy and Research (BIPR)

  Aug 2012 - Dec 2012

  Internship

  • Attended talks about children with ADHD and how parents can cope.• Entered data on Excel and calculated averages for overall quality of information for talks given by BIPR.• Volunteered with ACORN school and observed classrooms.• Used psychological measurements such as BASC-2 to assess classroom behavior.• Attended weekly meetings with intern coordinator.

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  University of Colorado

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  Arch Lab Manager

  • Extensive knowledge of Mechanical Turk, Qualtrics, SPSS, and Turkgate software.• Cleaned and analyzed SPSS database for anxiety and oncology studies.• Study coordinator for Valued Living Group- Acceptance Commitment Therapy Intervention for cancer survivors 1 year post treatment. • Study coordinator for a Amazon's Mechanical Turk study assessing the feasibility of recruitment of cancer survivors as well as their psychosocial preferences.• Study coordinator for Social Learning Task Study which is part of an ongoing research program design to better understand social anxiety and interventions for anxiety. Show less

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  Safe Shelter

  Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

  Victim's Advocate

  • Extensive 4 week victim advocate training covering elder abuse, child abuse, resources, community resources, wheel of violence, shelter policy, police protocol.• Tabled community events such as Unity in the Community and gave background information to community leaders about our resources.• Conducted in takes over the telephone to admit women and children into shelter.• Designed an Excel database for Longmont Ending Domestic Violence Initiative (LEVI), entered, and analyzed statistics on annual domestic violence reporting in the Longmont area.• Answered police calls about domestic violence incidents and followed up with the shelter’s legal advocate.• Attend court hearing for temporary protection order as a client’s victim advocate.• Assisted in grant proposals.• Mentor for Teens Ending Relationship Abuse (TERA).• Gave over 10 TERA presentations on domestic violence within the teenage community to middle and high schools in Longmont, CO.• Entered data for statistics on the number of people reached for the year, reporting of experiencing domestic violence, and reporting of seeing friends experience domestic abuse for TERA.• Conducted phone interviews for potential TERA members for 2013-2014 school year.• Served as temporary TERA coordinator and trained new TERA coordinator. Show less

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  CU Change Lab

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Research Assistant

  • Ran sessions in the Smartphone Testing of Apps for Running (STAR).• Screened potential participants, set up baseline appointments, and ran sessions.• Distributed questionnaires, log participants’ physical activity via their exercise applications, scheduled additional sessions, and paid participants.• Assisted the lab manager with making a data dictionary to log all studies and data collected on projects being run at the CU Boulder and New Mexico site.• Tested the Qualtrics survey to ensure questionnaires for both the STAR and Neurological Responses to Exercise study (NED) were accurate and coded correctly.• Data entry using COINS database for two longitudinal studies that examined substance use via MRI scan and genetic data in New Mexico at the Mind Research Network.• Screened potential candidates for NED study. Show less

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  Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance

  Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

  Victim's Advocate

  • Attended monthly meetings covering topics such as advocate self-care, gang violence, and resources within the Colorado community.• Placed with Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley as domestic violence victim advocate.

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  Massachusetts General Hospital-- Cancer Outcomes Research Group (CORe)

  Jun 2014 - May 2016

  Clinical Research Coordinator

  • Screen electronic health records to assess cancer patient eligibility• Recruit/enroll adult patients from seven disease centers (thoracic, breast, genitourinary, GI, gynecological, head and neck, lymphoma)• Serve as study liaison with oncology physicians and nursing staff• Collect and manage patient self-report data and Medical Event Monitoring System (MEMS) adherence data• Manage IRB submissions and communications• Screen electronic health records to assess cancer patient eligibility• Recruit/enroll adult patients from seven disease centers (thoracic, breast, genitourinary, GI, gynecological, head and neck, lymphoma)• Serve as study liaison with oncology physicians and nursing staff•Collect and manage patient self-report data and Medical Event Monitoring System (MEMS) adherence data•Manage IRB submissions and communications• Assist in data preparation, analysis and presentation Show less

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  Harvard University

  Jan 2015 - May 2015

  Teaching Assistant- Fighting Cancer with the Mind
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  University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

  Aug 2016 - Aug 2021

  Clinical Health Psychology- PhD Student
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  University of Florida

  Jun 2020 - Aug 2021

  Pre Doctoral Intern
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  Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

  Aug 2021 - now

  • Research Instructor

    Jun 2023 - now

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Aug 2021 - Jun 2023
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  North Star Psychological Services

  Jun 2022 - Nov 2023

  Postdoctoral Fellow
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  National Center for Health Psychology

  Dec 2023 - now

  • Licensed Clinical Psychologist

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Licensed Clinical Psychologist

    Dec 2023 - now