Postdoctoral Fellow
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Dr. Katherine Sarkisian is a Youth Suicide Prevention Postdoctoral Fellow at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She completed her doctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her undergraduate at Indiana University. The overarching goal of Dr. Sarkisian's research is to design and implement developmentally and culturally responsive suicide risk assessment and interventions for understudied and marginalized pediatric populations. One focus of her research is enhancing safety planning for LGBTQ+ youth using a specialized self-compassion intervention. The current version of this intervention is designed specifically for transgender and gender diverse youth, and will be utilizing input from these youths, their caregivers, and providers to guide adaptations and testing of the coping tool, which is intended to complement a suicide prevention safety plan. Dr. Sarkisian's other research focus involves adapting suicide risk assessment and intervention approaches based on the cognitive, social, and emotional development of preschool and elementary-aged children.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM East Coast USA Time