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Contact Information:
Office: 128 N. Craig Str., Suite 210
Phone: 412-383-2334
Fax: 412-624-2489
Additional Information:
I received my masters and doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Marburg University in Germany. A dissertation fellowship award from the German Academic Exchange Service gave me the opportunity to conduct my dissertation research on the treatment of anxiety disorders in the United States. After receiving my Ph.D. in 1996, I completed a 2-year postdoctoral training in psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Following successful competition for a 5-year NIH-funded mentored career development award (K01 MH01675), I joined WPIC’s faculty as assistant professor in 1998. My career development was focused on the treatment of low income African-American women with posttraumatic stress disorder following physical and sexual assault. This population is characterized by high rates of exposure to childhood trauma that can lead to difficulties in emotion regulation and interpersonal relationships, the core symptoms associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD). My experiences in the treatment of this psychiatrically complex population prompted my interest in BPD. In 2008, I received a Young Investigator Award from the BPD Research Foundation entitled “Subtypes in BPD: Cognitive Variables that Predict Aggression Against Others” (Feske, PI). In 2009, I joined Paul Pilkonis, Ph.D. as Co-PI on his NIH-funded R01 “Interpersonal Functioning in Borderline Personality” (2 R01 MH56888). I also began to collaborate with Ralph Tarter, Ph.D., who is the PI of the Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research (CEDAR; P50DA05605) at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Pharmacy. Prompted by the lack of data on the association between BPD and substance use in women, Drs. Tarter and I successfully competed for a NIDA-funded grant entitled “Drug Abuse and Risky Sex in Borderline Personality” (DA020130; Feske, PI). In 2006, I was fortunate to formally join CEDAR and the School of Pharmacy as assistant research professor of pharmaceutical sciences and psychiatry.