Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Penn Center for Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Director of Mental Health Implementation Research at the Penn Implementation Science Center. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and an implementation scientist. The long-term goal of her research is to develop and evaluate strategies to promote the uptake of evidence-based care into routine practice, with the ultimate goal of improving the effectiveness of mental health services for children and adults in non-specialty mental health settings.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The Ohio State University and completed both her Master of Arts and PhD in Clinical Psychology at Temple University, where she focused on the development and evaluation of cognitive-behavioral therapies for children and adolescents. She completed an APA-accredited predoctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and an NRSA postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.