Meg Fyan is a first-year doctoral student in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences program at the University of Georgia, where she is a member of the Infant Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Janet Frick. She completed a B.S. in Psychology from Creighton University. 

Kristen is a fourth-year graduate student with research interests in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her work focuses on making the workplace equitable and inclusive for all employees.

Sara Cloonan is a first-year doctoral student in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences program at the University of Georgia, where she is a member of the Close Relationships Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Rich Slatcher. Her research broadly focuses on understanding how and why we regulate our romantic partner's emotions, and how this impacts both relational and individual health and well-being. She received her B.A. in Psychology and History from the University of Richmond in 2019 and her M.S. in Psychology from Saint Leo University in 2022. 

Dr. Elizabeth Duggan is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, and the Director of Professional Development and Faculty Engagement for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care at the University of Alabama Birmingham.  

 Dr. Duggan attended medical school at the University of Viginia, completed her internship at Duke University Medical School and her residency and fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She continues to be enthusiastic about perioperative medicine and patient care and is an active instructor and mentor for the department's anesthesiology residents.

Dr. Duggan holds a master's degree in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Georgia and is a certified Executive Coach. She draws on this knowledge and experience to address workplace psychological health, to design positive workplace environments, effectively align human motivation with career growth, augment career meaning and connection, and to build employee trust and commitment. She is passionate about organizational justice, physician engagement, leadership training, fair and objective selection practices, and optimal team dynamics.  

As Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Professor Jeanette Taylor assists with all matters of academic administration, policy and planning, and acts on behalf of the Provost when he is not available. She also chairs the UGA Arts Council and oversees the Georgia Museum of Art, McBee Institute for Higher Education, and the Performing Arts Center. With the Dean and Director of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, she jointly oversees the UGA Griffin campus.

 

Professor Taylor’s academic home is in the Department of Psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining UGA, Professor Taylor was serving as an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State University. She served for six years as the chair of the Department of Psychology before her role as an associate dean.

 

Professor Taylor is a clinical psychologist and has an international reputation for her work examining factors that relate to the development and comorbidity of substance use disorders and personality disorders. She has examined psychophysiological factors as well as personality traits and environmental factors in her work. She held funding from the National Institutes of Health for 15 years to support the creation of the Florida State Twin Registry. This registry helped to facilitate her work examining genetic and environmental influences on behavior problems, personality, and reading difficulties in children and adolescents. 

 

Her honors include being elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and selected as a Fellow of the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Leadership Network. She has served the profession as an associate editor of the Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, as an ad hoc reviewer for two dozen journals, and as an ad hoc reviewer for federal and private grants.