Katherine Schafer, PhD, MS, MEd
Dr. Katherine Musacchio Schafer is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. She is a clinical psychologist with expertise in the intersection of suicide prevention and informatics. She recently completed a two-year fellowship to equip her with strong training in healthcare quality improvement as well as translational and implementation sciences. She has published over 30 articles investigating risk factors for and treatment of suicidal ideation. Further, she has experience in the development of iOS applications, ambulatory treatments, and randomized control trials. She will be funded during her first two years under the P30 Rapid Learning Health Systems Grant during which time she will focus on qualitative research and application building in the development and evaluation of clinical decision support tools.
Recent extramural funding includes a prestigious Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services fellowship through the National Institutes of Health as well as three dissertation awards from the Association of Behavior and Cognitive Therapies (Virginia Roswell Student Dissertation Award), Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, and the Military and Suicide Research Consortium Dissertation Award. Further, she received awards for her mentorship and teaching contributions from Florida State University’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.
Dr. Schafer has delivered invited talks at medical schools and conferences presentations at local, national, and international conferences. Her work received awards including Association of Behavior and Cognitive Therapies Veteran and Military Special Interest Group Student Poster Award and the Association of Behavior and Cognitive Therapies Suicide Self-Injury Special Interest Group Student Poster Award.
Clinically she specializes in the evidence based treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, primarily using Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy. She has received national accolades for her clinical work, with support coming from Military and Suicide Research Consortium Training Program and Beck Institute Soldier Suicide Prevention Scholarship Award.
Research interests: clinical decision support tools, implementation science, translational science, suicide prevention