The Team

Dr. Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis and a licensed psychologist.  Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft received her BA in psychology from the University of Notre Dame, her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completed her clinical psychology internship at The University of Chicago Medicine, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft has established programmatic lines of research centering on the use of technology for eating disorder prevention and treatment, eating disorder screening, sociocultural etiological and maintenance factors for eating disorders, eating disorder recovery, and college mental health. Ultimately Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft’s work aims to disseminate evidence-based interventions from research to practice as well as extend treatments in ways that will reach the large number of people in need of care for mental health problems but who are not receiving services. Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Office on Women’s Health in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Eating Disorders Association, and the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, among others. She is a Fellow in the Academy for Eating Disorders, an Appointed Founding Member of the American Psychological Association’s Office of Health Care Innovation Advisory Committee for Mental Health Technology, a representative to the Coalition for the Advancement & Application of Psychological Science (CAAPS), and an Expertscape World Expert in Feeding and Eating Disorders. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft was the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health K08 Career Development Award and has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications that have been collectively cited over 7,000 times in the literature. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft is passionate about increasing access to scalable, evidence-based mental health services, collaborating with numerous industry partners, non-profit organizations, and statewide groups in the U.S. in order to do so. Her work has been featured in high-profile media outlets including the New York Times, 60 Minutes, NPR, Wired, Forbes, Scientific American, and The Verge.  As the Director of the mHRC, she will participate in mHealth consultations and co-oversee the vision and execution of all activates of the core.

Nathalie is a post-baccalaureate research coordinator for the ACCESS lab and the mHRC. She received her B.S. And B.A. from Union College in 2021 and has worked in various research settings in the field of digital health and health behaviors. Nathalie aims to learn how technology can both help and hinder eating disorder recovery in various ways, and make evidence-based treatments more accessible to lower-income patients . She plans to pursue candidacy for a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. In her free time, Nathalie enjoys HIIT and being a pet-sitter.

Marianna is a post-baccalaureate research coordinator for the ACCESS Lab and mHRC. She received her B.S. in Psychology and B.A. in Criminology from the University of Florida in 2025. Marianna is interested in how technology can be used to mitigate economic and social barriers to eating disorder treatment, particularly in underserved populations. She plans on pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and hopes to study how current standards of research and treatment are failing to capture diverse presentations of eating disorders, and how technology can be used to improve these outcomes. In her free time, Marianna enjoys playing guitar, reading, and finding new places.

Katie is the Associate Director of the mHealth Research Core (mHRC) and a Manager, Division of Clinical Research with the Center for Clinical Studies, Trial-CARE Unit at Washington University School of Medicine.

Tera is the Administrative Professional for MHRC.