Ariela Kaiser, Ph.D.
Ari graduated from the Clinical Psychology program at UIC in 2024. Prior to her time at UIC, she received her bachelor’s in Psychological & Brain Sciences and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016. Following graduation, she completed a post-baccalaureate IRTA fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health, studying reward processing in adolescent depression in Dr. Argyris Stringaris’s Mood, Brain, and Development Unit. Ari’s research interests center on developing innovative, scalable, and cost-effective prevention and intervention programs for youths with and at high risk for depression. Ari completed her internship at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Consultation/Liaison Services at Lurie Children’s Hospital.