Guest Faculty

Brian P. Daly, PhD
Department Head, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Brian Daly is a clinical child and adolescent psychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of children with a chronic illness, evaluation of adolescent health risk behaviors, development and evaluation of evidence-based psychosocial evaluations for youth, prevention and resiliency in urban youth and delivery of mental health promotion in schools. Following the completion of his doctorate in counseling psychology from Loyola University in Chicago, he completed a clinical internship in child psychology at the VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland School of Medicine Psychology Internship Consortium. Subsequently, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at Temple University Health Sciences Center. Following the fellowship, Daly was an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at Temple University as well as the director of training for the APA-approved pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship program. He has co-authored two books, and more than 40 articles and book chapters. He is on the editorial board of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, and a reviewer for more than 20 scientific journals.

Mark D. Weist, PhD
Professor, Clinical-Community (CC) and School Psychology
Director, CC Psychology Doctoral Program, Lead, School Behavioral Health Team
University of South Carolina

Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from VirginiaTech in 1991 after completing his internship at Duke University, and is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina (USC). In 1995, with colleagues from the University of Maryland, he established the National Center for School Mental Health, now in its 26th year of supporting this field (see www.schoolmentalhealth.org). He is also a partner on the National Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (see www.pbis.org). He has edited or developed 15 books and has published and presented widely in areas of mental health-education system partnerships, school behavioral health (SBH), trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based practice, cognitive behavioral therapy, supporting military families, and advancing policies that support children and youth at local, state, regional, national, and international levels of scale. With colleagues, he currently leads the Southeastern School Behavioral Health Community (see www.schoolbehavioralhealth.org), and is leading or co-leading a number of federally funded studies on strategies to improve SBH effectiveness, impact and scaling up. Mark recently received the Faculty Achievement Award from the Southeastern Conference (campus winner from the USC).

Local Faculty

Bryn Harris, PhD

Professor, School of Education and Human Development
University of Colorado Denver

Bryn Harris, PhD (she/her) is a Professor in the School Psychology doctoral program in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics (Developmental Pediatrics) at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus. Her primary research interests include the psychological assessment of bilingual learners, culturally and linguistically responsive assessment of autism spectrum disorder, health disparities among children with autism spectrum disorder, and improving mental health access and opportunity within traditionally underserved populations. Dr. Harris is the director and founder of the bilingual school psychology program at the University of Colorado Denver. She is also a bilingual (Spanish) licensed psychologist and nationally certified school psychologist. Dr. Harris practices as a bilingual school psychologist part-time in Denver Public Schools.

Jennifer Lindwall, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Jennifer Lindwall, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a licensed clinical psychologist at Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. Lindwall is the lead psychologist at Medical Day Treatment, a multidisciplinary school and treatment program at Children's Colorado for youth with significant medical diagnoses and psychosocial difficulties. She is also an integrated psychologist in multidisciplinary clinics at Children's Colorado, where she provides intervention for youth with multiple sclerosis, acute flaccid myelitis, and related diagnoses. Dr. Lindwall has been an active member of the psychology training committee throughout her career, supervising trainees at all levels across multiple pediatric psychology settings and serving as the Psychology Fellowship Program Director. Dr. Lindwall's clinical, teaching, scholarship, and service interests are focused on coping, quality of life, resiliency of youth with chronic medical diagnoses and their families, and efforts to attend to diversity, equity, and inclusion within health care settings.

Kay Troxell, BSN RN, CPN

Clinical Nurse IV - Medical Day Treatment
Children's Hospital Colorado

Kay has been a practicing pediatric nurse for 38 years. She has spent the last 25 years working at the Medical Day Treatment program at Children's Hospital Colorado. Kay has acted in a variety of roles with the program including Clinical Coordinator, Program Manager and Clinical Nurse IV.