Meagan (Sweeney) Ryan was appointed as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Outpatient Psychiatry at Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in 2020. Before that, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stony Brook University KPC-MBCRC Consortium Program, dividing her time between the L. Krasner Psychological Center, the Mind Body Clinical Research Center, and Stony Brook University Hospital engaging in evidence based treatments. Her BA is from Stony Brook, her MA from Teachers College Columbia University, and she graduated from GW’s clinical psychology program in 2019. Meagan received several small grants as a graduate student from the Society for Community Research and Action (APA’s Division 27), in addition to a GW dissertation fellowship her last summer at GWU. During her last year at GW, she was the student director of the Meltzer Center, our department’s clinic. Meagan’s clinical and research interests are varied, and center on the effects of exposure to potentially traumatic events (i.e. PTSD, addiction, borderline personality disorder). Meagan’s dissertation concerned predictors of academic success in Veterans returning to higher education. Specifically, she looked at how mental health symptoms mediate the relationship between trauma exposure and academic success and how coping self-efficacy and academic self-efficacy can moderate that relationship. Other doctoral research included a program evaluation of the Red Cross’s emergency preparedness presentations and predictors of emergency preparedness, especially emergency preparedness self-efficacy and perception of threat. Meagan completed her Internship at the Philadelphia Veteran’s Medical Center, where she received extensive training in Prolonged Exposure Therapy.
