Karley Atchison, MA

I support Dr. Rosland’s PCAS VET-PATHS project at the VA Pittsburgh Center for Health Equity and Research Promotion (CHERP). I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in Psychology in 2011 and then received my M.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2014. Previously, I was a coordinator at UPMC for a variety of psychiatric research projects and the Department of Otolaryngology at Pitt focusing on development and management of symptoms and treatment-related effects in head and neck cancer. Most recently, I was a coordinator with the VA Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) working on multiple research and quality improvement projects with Dr. Caitlan Tighe, Dr. Rachel Bachrach, and Dr. Lena Makaroun. When I’m not working, I enjoy the outdoors, reading, cooking, and spending time with my family.