Pilot Study Investigators

Investigators completing work on novel solutions to improve outcomes for families impacted by substance use disorders.

Maureen Zalewski
Maureen Zalewski, PhD

University of Oregon

Maureen Zalewski, PhD, contributed to the Center’s Training Core, where she led a pilot study examining how maternal mental health, opioid use, parenting stress, and parenting quality are interrelated. Her research focuses on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for mothers with borderline personality disorder who have young children.

Camille Cioffi PhD
Camille Cioffi, PhD

University of Oregon

Camille Cioffi, PhD, served as the lead of a CPO pilot project focused on improving parenting practices and access to services for parents with substance use disorders. Her research centers on supporting high-risk families.

Kate Mills
Kate Mills, PhD

University of Oregon

Kate Mills, PhD, led a pilot project at CPO that evaluated mentalizing-related cognitive processes and capacities in mothers with a history of opioid use. Her broader research explores how individuals learn to navigate the social world and understand others. 

Jean Kjellstrand
Jean Kjellstrand, PhD

University of Oregon

Jean Kjellstrand, PhD, conducted a pilot study for CPO testing a brief, cognitive-behavioral telehealth intervention for corrections-involved parents with a history of opioid use. Her work focuses on interventions that support corrections-involved parents and their children during and after incarceration.

Yoel Everett
Yoel Everett

University of Oregon

Yoel Everett led a CPO pilot project developing an integrated parent mental health and parent training intervention by combining Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills with Parent Training. His research interests include parental emotion dysregulation and its impact on parenting and child mental health.

Olivia Doyle
Olivia Doyle

Oregon Health & Science University

Olivia Doyle led a CPO pilot project investigating an adaptive virtual mindfulness intervention with social support for pregnant and postpartum individuals with a history of substance use. Her research focuses on perinatal intervention and the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology.

Kate Hails
Kate Hails, PhD

University of Oregon

Kate Hails, PhD, contributed to CPO through research examining parenting and family dynamics in the context of depression, poverty-related stress, and other ecological influences. She also investigated parent engagement with the Family Check-Up intervention. Her work is dedicated to increasing access to evidence-based behavioral supports for underserved families.

Amanda Skoranski
Mandy Skoranski, PhD

University of Oregon

Mandy Skoranski, PhD, served as principal investigator of a CPO pilot project examining postpartum substance use trajectories and their associations with suicidal thoughts and behaviors, emotion regulation, and daily parenting stress. Her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of mental health symptoms in high-risk parent-child dyads.

Maria Schweer-Collins
Maria Schweer-Collins, PhD

University of Oregon

Maria Schweer-Collins, PhD, led a CPO pilot study following justice-involved mothers and their adolescent children to explore generational cycles of substance use. Her research focuses on applied prevention science to support families who have experienced early adversity.

Andrea Imhof
Andrea Imhof

University of Oregon

Andrea Imhof contributed to CPO as part of the FIND evaluation team, where she used video coding to assess changes in caregiver-child interactions and their impact on child language development. Her work focuses on how parent-child interactions shape language development.