Emily V. Fair, M.S.

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Email: efair2@gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/emilyfair
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emily-Fair/publications

 


Objective

Education

2023 The Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA

 

2023              M.S. Biobehavioral Health

The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

 

2018                             M.A. Psychological Sciences
The Catholic University of America

Washington, DC

 

2016                             M.A. Thanatology
Hood College, Frederick, MD

 

1996                             B.A. Psychology (minor: Sociology)
Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Fellowships, Honors & Awards

2020        Recipient, Sloan Scholar, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. Program, awarded 2019-20
2020        Recipient, Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge Predoctoral Training Program, Pennsylvania State University
2018        Recipient, Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University
2018        Recipient, Best Graduate Research Poster, The Catholic University of America
2016        Recipient, Donna Mowry ’98, M.A. ’07 Thanatology Award, Hood College
2016        Lifetime Member, Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology

Publications

Zawadzki, M. J., Graham-Engeland, J. E., Robles, P. L., Hussain, M., Fair, E. V., Tobin, J. N., Cassells, A., & Brondolo (2023). Acute experiences of negative interpersonal interactions: Examining the dynamics of negative mood and      ambulatory blood pressure responses among Black and Hispanic urban adults. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 57(8),     630-639. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaad033

Russell, M.A., Linden-Carmichael, A.N., Lanza, S.T., Fair, E.V., Sher, K.J., & Piasecki, T.M. (2020). Affect Relative to Day-Level Drinking Intitiation: Analyzing Ecological Momentary Assessment Data With Multilevel Spline Modeling.  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. doi: 10.1037/abd0000550

Published Abstracts

E. Brondolo, M Zawadski, JE Graham-Engeland, M. Hussain, E. Fair, Louie A Robles. Discrimination moderates the effects of anger expression in social interaction in the moment. Psychosomatic Medicine, 88(5),A95.

Emily Fair, MA; Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, PhD; Patrick Louie Robles, MPH; Michael A. Russell, PhD; Matthew J.     Zawadzki, PhD; Hussain, Maryam, PhD; Elizabeth Brondolo, PhD. Associations between perceived discrimination, social vigilance, rumination and anger expression styles in a diverse community sample. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 55, S67-S67, 2021.

Emily Fair, MA; MA Russell, PhD. Predicting discrepancies in subjective versus sensor-predicted intoxication using trait -level interoceptive awareness. Alcoholism-Clinical and Experimental Research 45, 185A-185A, 2021.

 Manuscripts in Preparation

Fair, E.V. & Russell, M.A. (in preparation for Psychology of Addictive Behaviors). The effects of interoceptive
awareness on subject ratings of intoxication.

Emily Fair, MA; Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, PhD; Patrick Louie Robles, MPH; Michael A. Russell, PhD; Matthew J. Zawadzki, PhD; Hussain, Maryam, PhD; Elizabeth Brondolo, PhD. (In Preparation for Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin). Associations between perceived discrimination, social vigilance, rumination and anger expression styles in a diverse community sample.

Presentations

Emily Fair, MA; Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, PhD; Patrick Louie Robles, MPH; Michael A. Russell, PhD; Matthew J. Zawadzki, PhD; Hussain, Maryam, PhD; Elizabeth Brondolo, PhD. (January, 2021). Associations between Perceived Discrimination, Social Vigilance, Rumination and Anger Expression Styles in a Diverse Community Sample. Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Conference (Virtual), 2021

Fair, E.V. & Russell, M.A. (March, 2020). Predicting Discrepancies in Subjective versus Sensor-Predicted Intoxication
Using Trait-Level Interoceptive Awareness
. Research Society on Alcoholism, 2021, San Antonio, TX.

Fair, E.V. & Russell, M.A. (March, 2020). Predicting Discrepancies in Subjective versus Sensor-Predicted Intoxication
Using Trait-Level Interoceptive Awareness
. Poster accepted to the 2020 Research Society on Alcoholism, New Orleans,
LA.**Conference cancelled due to COVID-19.

Fair, E.V. & Russell, M.A. (March, 2020). Self-Reported Interoceptive Awareness Predicts Subjective Intoxication Even
After Adjusting for Alcohol Exposure
. Poster accepted to the 2020 Pennsylvania State University Graduate Exposition,
State College, PA. **Conference cancelled due to COVID-19.

Fair, E., Russell, M.A., & Smyth, J.M. (May, 2019). Associations of Alexithymic Symptoms and Negative Affect with Symptom Severity in the Everyday Lives of Patients with Asthma or Rheumatoid Arthritis. Poster presented at the 2019 Association for Psychological Science Annual Conference, Washington, DC.

Fair, E., Parker, A., & Adleman, N.E. (March, 2019). Associations Between Self-reported Interoceptive Reactivity, Emotion Regulation, Attentional Control & Cognitive Control. Poster presented at the 2019 Anxiety & Depression Association of America Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Fair, E., Parker, A., & Adleman, N.E. (April, 2018). Interoception and Cognitive Processing. 2018 University Research Day, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Torres, R., Houser, K., Kreisler, E., Rizkalla, R., Rizkalla, R., Rossetto, J., Degnan, K. & Fair, E. (April, 2018). The Physiology of Positive Risk Taking. 2018 University Research Day, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Fair, E., Kiser, S.A., & Adleman, N.E. (April, 2018). Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, Stress and Implicit Learning. 2018 University Research Day, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Fair, E. (November, 2017). The Bidirectional Relationship between Emotion and the Immune System and its Effects on Social Cognition presented at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) student chapter at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Ad Hoc Reviewer

Depression and Anxiety (2020)
Journal of American College Health (2020)

Research Teaching Experience

The Pennsylvania State University 2018-2023

08/2018-05/2023           Graduate Research Assistant, Russell Laboratory
                                    Mentor: Michael A. Russell, Ph.D.; Alcohol Habits in Daily Life

Research Project: The effects of interoceptive awareness on subject ratings of intoxication.
                             Primary Investigator: Emily Fair, MS & Michael A. Russell, Ph.D.

This study utilized ecological momentary assessment and wearable alcohol monitoring technology to examine the associations between self-reported interoceptive awareness of autonomic nervous system reactivity, positive and
negative affect, drinking behaviors and self-reported intoxication ratings. Novel statistical analysis techniques were used, such as p-spline coefficients, to approximate a non-parametric function allowing the association of trait-level interoceptive awareness and subjective intoxication to vary non-linearly as scores on interoceptive awareness assessments increased or decreased.

Additional studies using the Alcohol Habits in Daily Life dataset:

  • Predicting Discrepancies in Subjective versus Sensor-Predicted Intoxication Using Trait-Level Interoceptive Awareness
  • Self-Reported Interoceptive Awareness Predicts Subjective Intoxication Even After Adjusting for Alcohol Exposure.

08/2018-02/2020           Research Project: Associations of Alexithymic Symptoms and Negative Affect with Symptom Severity in the Everyday Lives of Patients with Asthma or Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Primary Investigator: Emily Fair, MA & Michael A. Russell, Ph.D. (dataset from J Smyth)
This study utilized ecological momentary assessment in patients with Asthma or Rheumatoid Arthritis to examine associations between trait alexithymia, negative affect and self-reported pain.

3/2020-2023            Member, Collaborative Health Integration Program (CHIRP)

St. John’s University, New York
Leader: Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D.

Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team including clinical psychologists, public health and biobehavioral health researchers to produce manuscripts targeting psychological and physical health outcomes in community samples with large representations of people of color.

10/2016-5/2018            Graduate Research Assistant, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience Lab

The Catholic University of America
Mentor: Nancy Adleman, Ph.D.

Research Project: Interoception & Cognitive Processing
Primary Investigators: Emily Fair, M.A., Alyssa J. Parker, B.S., & Nancy Adleman, Ph.D.
This study is an examination of the effects of individual differences interoceptive awareness of autonomic nervous system reactivity and cognitive processing

Research Project: Individual Differences in Implicit Learning
Primary Investigators: Nancy Adleman, Ph.D. & Seth Kiser, Ph.D.

This study investigates how learning, memory and related cognitive functions differ from person to person based on individual experiences, mood and personality.  This study looks at how specific forms of cognitive function vary according to individual differences in temperament.

  • Serve as primary manager for study
  • Duties include advertising, recruitment, scheduling and resource management of research assistants and participants, management of participant compensation, data integrity management, and overall study progress management

fMRI Class Research Project: Influence of Emotional Processing on Word Recognition
Primary Investigators: Emily Fair, M.A., Alyssa Parker, B.S., J. Vivian Dickens, Maxwell Graham-Putter.
This study is to investigate whether the emotional valence of words modulates word recognition using a visual lexical decision task.  Recognition of negatively valence words are compared to that of neutral words.

  • Duties include research proposal development
  • Word/pseudo word identification/creation
  • eprime task development
  • fMRI data collection using classmates as subjects
  • fMRI data preprocessing and analysis using MATLAB, SPM, Artworks

Research Project: Short Term Changes in Cognition & Emotion
Primary Investigators: Katherine McMorran, M.A. & Nancy Adleman, Ph.D.

This study is an examination of the relationship between changes in attention, rumination, mindfulness, depressive cognitions and mood following a brief mindful breathing intervention.

Duties included scheduling and resource management of fellow research assistants

  • Running experiments on human subjects that explore the effects of daily meditation on attention
  • Creation of training, scripts and procedural documents as needed

9/2017-7/2018             Graduate Research Assistant, Positive Development Lab
The Catholic University of America
Mentor: Kathryn Degnan, Ph.D.

  • Served as psychophysiology team lead
  • Established psychophysiological protocols for the lab including heart rate variability (HRV), cardiac impedance, ECG/EKG, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA) and Cardiac Pre-Ejection Period (PEP) using Mindware.

Teaching Experience

The Pennsylvania State University
8/2019-5/2023               Graduate Teaching Assistant, Biobehavioral Health

  • Values and Ethics in Biobehavioral Health Research and Practice (01/2023-05/2023)
  • Women’s Health – Supervised by JoAnne Foley-DiFiore (08/2022-present)
  • Research Applications in Biobehavioral Health – Supervised by Joseph Gyekis (01/2022- 05/2022)
  • Biobehavioral Aspects of Stress – Supervised by Sonia Cavigelli, PhD (01/2022-05/2022)
  • Values, Health & Academic Success – Supervised by Sarah Pergine, Neil Rager (2 sections; 08/2021-12/2021)
  • Diversity and Health – Supervised by Asher Rosinger, PhD (08/2021-12/2021)
  • Diversity and Health – Supervised by Lori Francis, PhD (01/2020-05/2020)
  • Research Strategies for Studying BioBehavioral Health – Supervised by Michael A. Russell, PhD (01/2020-05/2020)
  • Health Promotion – Supervised by JoAnne Foley-DiFiore, PhD (08/2019-12/2019)

General Duties:

  • Create, proctor and grade exams and quizzes for classes varying in size from 30-250 adult students
  • manage process of ensuring students with disabilities receive their accommodations
  • Identify students at risk personally and academically and ensure they get additional support

The Catholic University of America Department of Psychology
2017-2018                     Teaching & Curriculum Development

  • Trained a team of undergraduate research assistants in psychophysiological theories and methods and how to use these measures in reward/risk-taking tasks
  • Developed psychophysiology curriculum for undergraduate research assistants in the Positive Development Lab
  • Psychophysiology curriculum development for Applied Experimental Psychology Ph.D. program.

Clinical Experience

2017-2018      Vitas Healthcare
Hospice Volunteer

• Provided companion care for patients with terminal diseases such as cerebral atherosclerosis, vascular dementia, gliomas and other terminal diseases
• Care included spending time with patients, feeding, monitoring for changes in condition/medication side effects
• Advocated for additional support for patients as needed
2015-2016     Hood College Department of Psychology & Counseling
Graduate Volunteer

• Served as planning committee member, co-host and facilitator for campus and community discussion group on end-of-life concerns such as advance directives, healthcare powers of attorney and practical concerns regarding end-of-life decisions
• Marketing outreach to publicize department activities, including social media and traditional marketing
• Supported participants ranging in age from 18-85, and included students and members of the community
2015-2016     Hood College Department of Psychology & Counseling
                    Co-Facilitator, Trainer: Grief Training for Resident Assistants
• Coordinated the first grief and bereavement training seminar for resident assistants
• Developed training designed to help resident assistants identify, support and address bereaved undergraduates
• Developed course curriculum, handouts and scripting
• Led and facilitated group discussions and role-plays
2002            Wendt Center for Loss & Healing
Camp Forget-Me-Not Volunteer & Buddy

• Assigned as a buddy for a child with a history of loss (caregiver death or incarceration)
• Provided emotional support via discussion and play/activities
• Supported children with exploring their feelings about their loss with activities to create tributes to their loved ones

 

Training & Certifications

2018-2020: Weekly seminars on Intensive Longitudinal Data analysis methodology (Penn State)
2019: Research Integrity & Scholarly Ethics Training for Researchers (Penn State)
2016-2023: CITI Social & Behavioral Research, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)
2016-2023: Protecting Human Research Subjects, NIH Office of Extramural Research
2017: First Aid/CPR/AED Certification, American Red Cross
2017: Biofeedback (https://www.bcia.org/)
2013: Certified ScrumMaster® (Scrum Alliance)

 

Professional Memberships

2018-2019: Society of Behavioral Medicine
2018-2020: Association for Psychological Science
2016-2022: American Psychological Association
2018-2020: APA Division 6 – Society for Behavioral Neuroscience & Comparative Psychology
2018-2020: APA Division 38 – Health Psychology
2018-2022: APA Division 56 – Society for Addiction Psychology
2015-2018: Association for Death Education and Counseling

 

Software & Databases

MS VISIO, MS Project, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, e-Prime, SPSS, SPSS Syntax, PROCESS, e-Merge, SAS, Nexus-10, Mindware, BioPAC, MatLab, SPM12, Artworks, EEGLAB, ERPToolkit, BioSemi Active Two EEG System, RedCap, Scramnet Alcohol Monitoring Systems

Relevant Coursework

  • Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling
  • Measures in Health and Human Development
  • General Linear Modeling
  • Hierarchical/ Multilinear Modeling
  • Bayesian Estimation & GIMME
  • Biobehavioral Systems in Health and Development: Theory and Processes (“Intro to BBH”)
  • Health: Biobehavioral Perspectives (“Health Psychology”)
  • Biobehavioral Systems in Health and Development: Processes and Integration (“Review of Biological Systems”)
  • Behavioral Health Intervention Strategies (“Interventions and Health Promotion”
  • Behavioral Health Research Strategies (“Statistics/Methods”)
  • Experimental Techniques in EEG/Event Related Potentials
  • Functional MRI Theory & Practice
  • Biofeedback
  • Neuropsychology
  • Biological & Cognitive Foundations of Psychology
  • Cognitive & Affective Neurosciences
  • Cognitive Development
  • Health & Aging
  • Developmental Perspectives in Thanatology
  • Hospice: History, Principles and Administration
  • Theories & Principles of Counseling
  • Counseling the Bereaved
  • Supporting Child Grief
  • Cultural & Historical Perspectives in Thanatology

Corporate Experience

Areas of Expertise 

Business Process Management

 

Continuous Process Improvement Program & Project Management
Customer Experience Design and Analysis Contact Center Operations and Analysis Requirements Design and Analysis
Lean Six Sigma Methodologies

 

Marketing Communications Organizational Change Management
Contact Center Technologies Operations Performance Improvement Business Process Outsourcing

 

Professional Experience

11/2012-9/2014        National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), Washington, DC                                                                              Program Director

  • Carried responsibility for the performance of teams on assigned projects; which includes managing multiple projects and the full scope of project management activities such as: staff direction, identification and allocation of roles, budgeting, supervision of team members, communicating to stakeholders, prioritizing roadmap and product life cycle roadmap, business validation testing and the development and evaluation of team members.
  • Elicited, analyzed, documented, verified, and managed business requirements for new client servers, web-based new software systems, and changes to existing systems.
  • Planned, scheduled and managed software development projects.
  • Facilitated progress and support Scrum teams and hold Scrum teams accountable for the Scrum framework.
  • Developed and maintained all System Requirements Specifications (SRS), including business process requirements, user requirements, functional specifications, use case scenarios.

4/2005-11/2012        Simplexity, Washington, DC
2/2007-11/2012        Director, Business Process & Program Management                                                 

  • Directed the design and development of new scenario based processes / modification of existing
    contact center agent and order entry operator processes, assuring improvements in agent
    efficiency, scripting, keystrokes, handle time, accuracy and fulfillment
  • Directed the development and operations project management of all technical IT requests and
    enhancements to CRM strategies and fulfillment strategie including streamlining agent interaction with systems
    and call handle time reduction
  • Directed the development of all customer service and operations self-service applications, including
    self-service Websites and IVRs
  • Developed process documentation that included service scripting, all application
    keystrokes and appropriate retention techniques in support of all new operational initiatives,
    including new partner launches, new carrier launches and new policies
  • Developed user testing protocols, operational readiness testing protocols and launch processes
  • Constantly evaluated and submitted process improvement opportunities to executive management
    team based on analysis of current outputs/results using Lean Six Sigma and DMAIC methods
  • Managed a library of current and retired process documentation
  • Managed a team of 12 process developers
  • Served as process and systems subject matter expert

8/2006-2/2007          Sr. Manager, Process Development                                                              

  • Managed the design and implementation of processes and procedures for domestic and offshore
    contact centers
  • Developed technological protocols to reduce manual processing opportunities
  • Managed process improvement initiatives including obtaining current results, analysis of results,
    lead task forces to jointly redefine needs, goals, and strategic positioning to develop new policy
    and procedure for 4 contact centers using Lean Six Sigma and DMAIC methods
  • Created policy and procedure for crisis management
  • Created and managed of process library, skillset library, and process metrics2/2006-8/2006         Sr. Manager, Customer Experience (Communications)
  • Managed the design and implementation and development of a .NET web-based
    communications/e-learning platform for global call centers – on time and within budget
  • Launched full-scale call center communications program to inform agents and stakeholders of
    important customer-related issues and process/policy changes.
  • Managed creation and maintenance of call center policy documentation process
  • Managed staff of two, (graphics designer, web specialist)4/2005-2/2006        Manager, Customer Experience       
  • Managed the redesign of .NET fulfillment website using an outsourced technology company
  • Managed content and delivery of automated customer communications for more than 50,000 new
    customers per month
  • Identify and document the various types of customer shopping experiences, identify and
    implement improvements
  • Managed creation and maintenance of call center policy training tools and documentation
  • Develop IT requirements and specifications based on user needs
  • Technical documentation of web site enhancement3/2004-4/2005                   Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC                                                                                                              Marketing Technology Administrator
  • Worked closely with Healthcare, Intellectual Property and Product Liability/Torts practice groups on new business development and marketing plans
  • Managed Firm web site, intranet and contact management system (.NET, XML and ColdFusion)
  • Managed Firm web site and intranet reporting tools (WebTrends)
  • Serve as department liaison to IT department
  • Managed company’s Competitive Intelligence programs
  • Managed proposal database and proposal preparation process
  • Managed Firm and Attorney electronic marketing strategy

    1997-3/2004               Cambridge
    Scientific Abstracts, Bethesda, MD                                                                
    2002-3/2004               Asst Marketing Manager                                                                                                     
  • Increased number of qualified sales leads by 68% resulting in increased sales
  • Directed E-marketing campaigns using Lyris/L-Soft Maestro software
  • Managed market research initiatives
  • Managed company’s Competitive Intelligence programs
  • Managed company’s Web marketing, direct mail, and advertising activities; including marketing in-house web site reporting tools9/1999-8/2002            Marketing Specialist                                                                                                      
  • Increased global presence by fully utilizing the Web and E-mail; spearheaded E-mail marketing
    programs
  • Created Marketing Intranet to alleviate communication challenges within a global company
    with multiple field sales representatives (PHP)
  • Managed production process for marketing materials1997-1999            Customer Service Supervisor                                                                                            
  • Introduced coding procedures resulting in 250% increase in daily data entry totals
  • Introduced complaint database and new procedures resulting in a 70% decrease in complaints.
  • Successfully negotiated vendor pricing saving company over $40,000 per year in shipping budgets.

             Improvement & Project Management Methodologies

Agile Methods, Agile Project Management, Scrum Project Management, Waterfall Project Management, DMAIC, Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC