Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Pace University

Sep 2018 – May 2022

B.A. in Psychology with Honors, minor in Neuroscience

Summa Cum Laude, Dean’s List First Honors

Cum. GPA: 4.0/4.0

Honors Thesis: Do Students Replace Therapy with Alcohol, Marijuana, and Nicotine? Substance Use, Depression, and Psychological Help-Seeking Behaviors among College Students

The University of Auckland

Feb 2020 – Jul 2020

Certificate of Excelence Overseas (Psychology)

Average: High First (A+)

PRESENTATIONS

Blozyte, E., Goldstein-Piekarski A., Ahmadi, A., Krause, A., Saletin, J., O’Hora, K.P., Friedman, L. F., Hernandez, B., Lazzeroni, L., Yesavage, J.A., Kushida, C.A., Zeitzer, J.M., Posner, D. (2023, November). Enhancing executive control through sleep: the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia’s components on Trail Making Test performance. Oral presentation approved for the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine 2023 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Blozyte, E. & Niu, W. (2022, May). Effects of Emotion Regulation Skills on Disordered Eating. Oral Presentation at the Society of Fellows 41st Annual Meeting, New York, NY

Blozyte, E., Roby, K.I, Niu, W. (2021, December). Do Students Replace Therapy with Alcohol, Marijuana, and Nicotine? Substance Use, Depression, and Psychological Help Seeking Behaviors among College Students. Oral presentation at Pace University Annual Undergraduate Research Showcase, New York, NY

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Clinical and Neuroimaging Research Coordinator

Jul 2022 – Present

Computational Psychiatry, Neuroimaging, and Sleep Lab

Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Principal Investigator and Supervisor: Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski, Ph.D.

Insomnia | Alzheimer’s Dementia | Substance Use Disorders | Mood Disorders | Emotion Regulation

• Serving as primary contact with research participants from sensitive and clinical populations (veterans, people with Alzheimer’s dementia, suicidality, insomnia, substance use disorders, and mood disorders)

• Determining eligibility of and obtaining informed consent from participants

• Conducting cognitive and diagnostic interviews, administering cognitive and neuropsychological tests, structured clinical interviews

• Attaching and calibrating polysomnography and EEG equipment, running fMRI scanning sessions and pre/post scan procedures, collecting actigraphy data, specimens, and medical information

• Managing large, complex data sets and running statistical analyses to reveal underlying patterns, correlations, and trends, collecting, managing, and pre-processing patient and laboratory data for clinical research

• Developing and updating study protocols, SOPs, CRFs, and checklists

• Ensuring compliance with GCP, FDA, NIH, and institutional regulations, research protocols, auditing CRFs for completion and accuracy, reporting protocol deviations, and preparing for site visits from regulatory authorities

• Conducting independent research, including literature review, data analysis, and preparing reports on findings

• Lab equipment maintenance, repairs, and purchasing; inventory tracking and organization

• Managing payments with federal grant funding

• Hiring, training, and supervising new employees and undergraduate assistants

Research Assistant

Sep 2021 – May 2022

Adult Communication Disorders Lab

Pace University College of Health Professions

Principal Investigator and Supervisor: Linda S. Carozza, Ph.D.

Alzheimer’s dementia | Aphasia | Language Pathology | Healthcare Equity

• Assisting with research-related tasks, including literature reviewing, research design, funding inquiries, data collection and management, qualitative and quantitative analysis, academic paper writing and editing, grant proposal preparation, and manuscript submissions to academic journals

• Developing conference presentations showcasing research findings

• Public communication about current research in the laboratory

Participant Recruiter

Jan 2022 – May 2022

The United States Vaping Study

Yale University School of Medicine

Supervisor: Leili Najmabadi MPH

Substance Misuse | Emotion Regulation | Health Psychology

• Recruiting participants through social media, as well as professional and personal networks

• Informing potential participants about the aims, methods, and relevance of the study in lay terms

Research Assistant

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019

The BELLE Project and Video Interaction Project

New York University Langone Health, Department of Pediatrics

Principal Investigator: Alan L. Mendelsohn, MD; Supervisor: Juliana Gutierrez

Early development | Education | Parenting

• Interacting with parents and their young children, assisting with behavioral observation and cognitive assessment of infants Coding and transcribing videos of behavioral assessments, entering and cleaning data

• Preparing materials and experimental settings for assessments with infants

• Assisting with administrative tasks, including document management, scheduling, and participant recruitment

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

Digital Security Review Analyst – German Speaker

August 2020 – January 2021

Western Union

Vilnius, Lithuania

• Providing customer support in English and German languages while interviewing for fraud and scam risk assessment

• Reviewing approximately 200 international money transfers for fraud and scam protection per day

• Completing detailed compliance review of financial documents

Student Technician

Sep 2021 – May 2022

Pace University Education Media Centers

New York, NY

• Providing customer support to faculty and students troubleshooting technical issues

• Completing daily technology maintenance tasks, such as installing and updating software, replacing malfunctioning hardware, and setting up audio and visual technology for events, including presentations, conferences, and social eventsCompleting detailed compliance review of financial documents

Organizational Assistant

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019

Addelse

Vilnius, Lithuania

• Qualitative research on employee attitudes and engagement within Lithuanian and international companies, gathering data through interviews, surveys, and secondary sources, to explore organizational dynamics, leadership styles, and socio-cultural contexts, thereby informing evidence-based strategies for fostering a culture of engagement and empowerment

• Developing presentations and infographics about research findings, evidence-based proposed strategies, and best practices in human resources management

• Assisting in coaching sessions about personnel management

• Meticulously transferring engagement survey submissions from paper to statistical software

SKILLS

Computer

Google Applications (Drive, Mail, Docs, Slides, etc.)

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Statistical software (SPSS, RStudio, MATLAB)

Qualtrics

REDcap

Basic programming in R and Python

Skilled with social media and online public image management

Technical

Polysomnography

EEG

fMRI

Actigraphy

Sleep Apnea Screening

Psychological Assessment

MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview

DUKE Interview for Sleep Disorders

Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (CSSRS)

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)

Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)

The Mini‐Mental State Examination (MMSE)

Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) Color-Word Interference Test (CWIT)

Timeline Followback Method Assessment (TLFB)

Certificates

CITI training in human subjects’ research

HIPAA Training for regulations governing confidentiality of patient health information

Good Clinical Practices Two Day Bootcamp - Spring 2023 at Stanford Center for Clinical & Translational Research & Education

CodeAcademy “Learn R”

CS50: Introduction to Computer Science

Languages

Lithuanian

German

Russian