Jesslyn Jamison, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and a licensed psychologist at the Pediatric Anxiety Treatment Center at Hall Mercer (PATCH) program. Her research focuses on peer-to-peer models to support those with mental health needs. She primarily studies family peer support models, where caregivers with lived experience of parenting a child with mental health needs are trained to support other parents on their child’s mental health journey. Dr. Jamison is the recipient of a NIMH career development award to develop a tool to capture the content of family peer support and develop a mechanistic model of how family peer support impacts caregivers and their families who receive it.
Dr. Jamison has substantial experience working across a range of clinical settings including hospitals, schools, and primary care clinics, and aims to bring this perspective into her research. Dr. Jamison received her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in their School/Clinical Child Psychology Program and completed her predoctoral internship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.