Nicole Evangelista Brandt

Nicole Evangelista Brandt received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in children and adolescents from Ohio University in June 2009. In 2008-2009, Dr. Brandt completed her predoctoral clinical internship at the VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland Baltimore Psychology Consortium, School Mental Health track.  After completing her internship, Dr. Brandt completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland Baltimore. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and is the Program Manager for the Center for School Mental Health. She is a licensed psychologist and serves as the Training Director for the University of Maryland School Mental Health Program. In this role, she provides training and supervision for some of the predoctoral psychology interns, postdoctoral fellows, psychiatry fellows, and graduate student externs/interns. Dr. Brandt’s research interests include the positive illusory bias and the self-perceptions of children with ADHD, family engagement in school mental health, and evidence-based practices in school mental health.