About Catherine
Catherine is a second-year doctoral student in the Clinical Health Psychology Program at CU Denver. Catherine graduated from Loyola University Maryland in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. After graduating, Catherine worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Cancer Outcomes Research and Education Program (CORE) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). At MGH, she contributed to research that focused on reducing health disparities for individuals from underserved cancer populations. Catherine hopes to continue her research on health disparities and the integration of mental health and cancer care through psychosocial interventions for patients and caregivers. She is particularly interested in technology-based interventions and the use of psilocybin-assisted therapy to improve quality of life in cancer patients. In her free time, Catherine enjoys spending time with friends and family, baking, hiking, and skiing.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Irwin, K. E., Callaway, C. A., Corveleyn, A. E., Pappano, C. R., Barry, M. J., Tiersma, K. M., Nelson, Z. E., Fields, L. E., Pirl, W. F., Greer, J. A., Temel, J. S., Ryan, D. P., Nierenberg, A. A., & Park, E. R. (2022). Study protocol for a randomized trial of bridge: Person-centered collaborative care for serious mental illness and cancer. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 123, 106975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2022.106975
Flores, E.J., Neil, J.M., Tiersma, K.M., Pappano, C.R., Mulligan, C., Van Alphen, M.U., Park, E.R., & Irwin, K.E. (2021). Feasibility and acceptability of a collaborative lung cancer screening educational intervention tailored for individuals with serious mental illness. Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR, 18(12), 1624–1634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2021.07.010
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Barry, M., Pappano, C.R., Corveleyn, A.E., Callaway, C.A., Park, E.R., & Irwin, K.E. (2020, March 11-13). The impact of the Bridge Intervention on community mental health clinicians: Person-centered care for patients with serious mental illness and cancer [Poster presentation]. American Psychosocial Oncology Society’s 17th Annual Virtual Conference. United States.
Flores, E.F., Tiersma, K.M., Pappano, C.R., Neil, J.M., Mulligan, C., Park, E.R., & Irwin, K.E. (2019, December 9-10). Reducing disparities in lung cancer screening for individuals with serious mental illness: A pilot study of targeted, group shared decision-making to increase lung cancer screening [Poster presentation]. 2019 National Lung Cancer Roundtable Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., United States.
Pappano, C.R., Fung, V., Barry, M., Zucconi, T., Chen, J., & Irwin, K.E. (2019, October 25-26). Developing a population health tool to identify patients with serious mental illness at cancer diagnosis [Poster presentation]. American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Annual Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Pappano, C.R., Tiersma, K.M., Whorms, D., Glover, M., IV., Herrington, J., Miles, R., Narayan, A.K., Saini, S., & Flores, E.J. (2019, October 11). Analysis of a patient-centered ridesharing program to overcome transportation barriers in access to advanced imaging care [Poster presentation]. Annual Massachusetts General Hospital Chelsea Community Research Day Symposium, Chelsea, MA, United States.
Barry, M., Pappano, C.R., Callaway, C.A., Fields, L.E., Corveleyn, A.E., Park, E.R., Greer, J.A., Jacobs, J., Ryan, D.P., Pirl, W.R., & Irwin, K.E. (2019, October 11). Bridge: Conducting a run-in of a randomized trial for patients with mental illness and cancer [Poster presentation]. Annual Massachusetts General Hospital Chelsea Community Research Day Symposium, Chelsea, MA, United States.
Tiersma, K.M., Pappano, C.R., Neil, J.M., Mulligan, C., Irwin, K.E., Park, E.R., & Flores, E.J. (2019, October 3). Targeted lung cancer screening education and shared decision-making educational tool for individuals with serious mental illness [Poster presentation]. Massachusetts General Hospital’s 17th Annual Clinical Research Day, Boston, MA, United States.
Pappano, C.R., Fung, V., Barry, M., Zucconi, T., Chen, J., & Irwin, K.E. (2019, October 3). Developing a population health tool to identify patients with serious mental illness at cancer diagnosis [Poster presentation]. Massachusetts General Hospital’s 17th Annual Clinical Research Day, Boston, MA, United States.
Corveleyn, A.E., Pappano, C.R., Barry, M., Tiersma, K.M., Fields, L.E., Greer, J.A., Pirl, W.F., Park, E.R., & Irwin, K.E. (2019, September). Proactive psychiatry consultation and case management for patients with cancer and serious mental illness and their caregivers: A pilot study [Poster presentation]. Mongan Institute Poster Day, Boston, MA, United States.
Callaway, C.A., Barry, M., Pappano, C.R., Tiersma, K.M., Ware, C., Corveley, A.E., Park, E.R., Greer, J.A., Nierenberg, A., & Irwin, K.E. (2019, September). The cancer and mental health collaborative: Engaging diverse stakeholders to improve cancer outcomes for people affected by serious mental illness [Poster presentation]. Mongan Institute Poster Day, Boston, MA, United States.
Pappano, C.R., Callaway, C.A., Corveleyn, A.E., Park, E.R., Greer, J.A., Nierenberg, A.A., Temel, J.S., & Irwin, K.E. (2019, March 27). Bridge: Person-centered collaborative care of patients with serious mental illness and cancer [Poster presentation]. Massachusetts General Hospital’s 7th Annual Public and Community Psychiatry Symposium, Boston, MA, United States.
Callaway, C.A., Corveleyn, A.E., Fields, L.E., Pappano, C.R., Park, E.R., Greer, J.A., Nierenberg, A.A., Temel, J.S., & Irwin, K.E. (2019, February 28 - March 2). Bridge: Proactive psychiatry and case management intervention for patients with serious mental illness and their caregivers [Symposium presentation]. American Psychosocial Oncology Society’s 16th Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Pappano, C.R. (2018, April 20). Compulsive exercise and the treatment of eating disorders: A review of the literature [Oral presentation]. Undergraduate Student Research & Scholarship Colloquium, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Dwyer, M., Vitarello, G., Atkinson, J., Pappano, C.R. (2016, April 8). #Selfie: A correlational study between body dissatisfaction, photo manipulation and photo sharing on Instagram [Poster presentation]. Undergraduate Student Research & Scholarship Colloquium, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.