Grace has a B.S. in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.  Her responsibilities include assisting with sleep lab visits and orienting participants to the at-home sleep monitoring portion of the study.  She enjoys spending time with her pets, a cat and an African Grey parrot.

Mahi is currently a senior at the University of Pittsburgh. She works with CARRS as a rechearch assistant, helping with behavioral tasks and in-lab visits.

Nate is an undergraduate junior at the University of Pittsburgh who is majoring in Biology and History. His goal is to work in a health-related field. As a CARRS research assistant, he helps with in-lab visits, administers behavioral tasks, and assists in running fMRI visits. When he’s not working with the lab, Nate enjoys spending time with his friends and family, reading, playing sports, and exploring Pittsburgh! 

Anaanya is currently attending the University of Pittsburgh and she works as an undergraduate research assistant with CARRS. She helps with in-lab visits and administering behavioral tasks.

Dr. Franzen obtained a Bachelor of Science with college honors at Carnegie Mellon University. He then obtained his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Arizona, which was followed by his clinical internship at Western Psychiatric Hospital and postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and joined the faculty there in 2007. Dr. Franzen’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, The Pittsburgh Foundation, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, among others. His research program strives to better understand why and how sleep is so important for emotional health in adults in teens. In his free time, Dr. Franzen enjoys hiking, his dog Buddy Cornwall, gardening, and live music.

Dr. Hasler’s research program, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and various foundations, focuses on the role of the sleep and circadian rhythms in regulating affect and motivation, particularly as relevant to affective disorders and substance abuse. In addition to his research program, Dr. Hasler is actively engaged in research mentorship and clinical supervision, as well as direct clinical practice, and is the Director of our accredited Behavioral Sleep Medicine training fellowship. In his free time, Dr. Hasler enjoys trying new restaurants, cooking at home, hiking, biking, and hanging out with his wife, daughter, and their 3 trusty canine companions. Dr. Hasler is much better able to enjoy his free time ever since he assembled such a hard-working, responsible, intelligent, and fun research team.

Dr. Buysse received his medical degree from the University of Michigan and completed his residency and fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the assessment, pathophysiology, and treatment of insomnia; the interactions between sleep and circadian rhythms; behavioral interventions for sleep; and the impact of sleep on health. Dr. Buysse has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science. He is Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on 15 active federally-funded research projects and over 50 previously-funded research project grants. Dr. Buysse is a recipient of the Nathaniel Kleitman Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award from the Sleep Research Society, and the Peter Hauri Career Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

Dr. Adriane Soehner is a clinical psychologist interested in the role of sleep-circadian rhythms in brain development and psychiatric illness. Dr. Soehner earned a Bachelor of Science in biological sciences and psychology with honors at Carnegie Mellon University. She then obtained her PhD in clinical science at the University of California, Berkeley, followed by a clinical internship at Western Psychiatric Hospital. Her postdoctoral fellowship was completed in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she joined the faculty in 2016. Dr. Soehner’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, and the Department of Defense. In addition to research, she provides cognitive behavioral treatment for sleep and circadian rhythm disorders through the WPH outpatient sleep medicine clinic. In her free time, Dr. Soehner enjoys yoga, DIY home projects, and playing with her Bernese Mountain Dog, Lana.

Dr. Levenson is Project 2 Co-Lead and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating interventions for adolescents that enhance sleep health specifically to promote mental and physical health broadly. She uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to developing stakeholder-informed interventions that are likely to be effective, adopted, and implemented. She is also interested in the role of disturbed sleep in the onset, course, and treatment of depression and bipolar disorder. Dr. Levenson’s work has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the American Sleep Medicine Foundation, and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Levenson is a licensed clinical psychologist who works with adolescents and adults. Her clinical interests focus primarily on the treatment of mood disorders and sleep disorders.

Dr. Clark is the Lead of CARRS Core B and Project 2 Co-Lead. He received his PhD in clinical psychology at UCLA, his MD at Harvard and completed his psychiatry residency at Stanford. Dr. Clark is MPI of the ABCD Pittsburgh site. He is PI of ABCD Social Development, a 5-site ABCD substudy on delinquency and victimization. Dr. Clark is Associate Director and Pittsburgh Site PI for the National Consortium on Adolescent Neurodevelopment and Alcohol (NCANDA). His hobbies are platform tennis and drums.

Dr. Wallace is the Leader of Core C of CARRS. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2009. She became a member of the University of Pittsburgh faculty in the psychiatry department in 2013. She is currently an associate professor of psychiatry, biostatistics, and statistics at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses broadly on developing and applying cutting-edge clustering and machine learning to examine how multidimensional and multimodal data predict mental and physical health outcomes. She currently has R01 support from the National Institute on Aging to develop a large, harmonized database including multiple sleep cohorts of older adults. Dr. Wallace is also a statistical co-investigator on numerous grants with varied data types (e.g. neuroimaging, ecological momentary assessment, physiological responses, actigraphy) and applications (e.g., substance use, post-partum weight gain, sleep, and depression), providing an endless stream of interesting statistical questions to investigate.