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Melanie Bozzay, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Biography
Dr. Bozzay is an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a Psychologist at the Providence VA. She is also the Associate Director of the Suicide Prevention Research and INnovation Group (SPRING) at the Providence VA. Dr. Bozzay researches risk processes of suicide and violence, leveraging experimental (i.e., laboratory and ambulatory tasks) and psychophysiological methodologies (i.e., EEG/ERP). She recently received an MPI NIMH-funded R01 to develop a sleep-based model of proximal risk for suicide.