Rinad S. Beidas (January 1, 1982) is an American clinical child psychologist and implementation scientist. She is currently the chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of the department of Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She was formerly

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of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania The Perelman School of Medicine, commonly known as Penn Med, is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medi ...

; Founding Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE@LDI); and Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit. She also served as Associate Director at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
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Early life and education

Beidas was born on January 1, 1982, in Amman, Jordan. She earned her

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degree from

Colgate University Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York. The college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823, when it was renamed Hamilton Theologi ...

in 2003 and her

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and PhD from

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

. While completing her doctoral degree, she received the 2008 Assembly of Scientist/Practitioner Psychologists award. She also worked under the guidance of

Philip C. Kendall Philip C. Kendall (born March 2, 1950) is Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Temple University, and clinical child and adolescent psycho ...

at his Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic, wherein she treated children with anxiety using a cognitive-behavioral approach.

Career

Upon completing her PhD, Beidas joined the faculty at the

in 2012. In her early years at the school, one of her family members died by suicide using a firearm. This led her to research firearm safety evidence-based practices and study firearm safety in pediatric primary care. In her role as an assistant professor of psychiatry, Beidas lead a study titled ''A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of an Evidence-Based Exercise Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors'' which aimed at finding barriers to implementation of the evidence-based exercise and education program for breast cancer survivors. The following year, she was the recipient of the 2015 President's New Researcher Award of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. In 2017, Beidas was the senior author on the longest known study looking at suicidal ideation following cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) treatment in youth. The results of the study found that patients who did not respond to CBT in their childhood as a treatment for anxiety were more likely to endure suicidal thoughts seven to 19 years after treatment. She also received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health for her project to encourage therapists to use evidence-based practices more often in their sessions. In 2020, Beidas was the principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health funded research project aimed at improving the implementation of an evidence-based firearm safety program. In 2022, she moved to Northwestern University to join the faculty at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Selected publications

*''Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health'' (co-edited)

References

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