BRIANNON O'CONNOR, PH.D.

Briannon O’Connor, PhD is the Director of Strategic Analytics and Performance Improvement where she will develop and support the continued growth of Consulting Services, while also expanding the services to include more robust strategic analytic and performance improvement initiatives for internal and external customers. Dr. O’Connor received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University at Buffalo, where her research focused on enhancing the effectiveness of behavioral interventions for children and families and disseminating Evidence-Based Practices into school and community settings.  She completed her pre-doctoral training at the Center for ADHD at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in New York State. Through her post-doctoral fellowship in The Center for Implementation-Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices (IDEAS Center) in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of NYU, she developed behavioral health care quality indicators (i.e., HEDIS measures), and conducted research measuring access to mental health care for youth. Dr. O’Connor has substantial expertise in research methodologies and data analytics and has published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Implementation Science, Psychiatric Services, Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, and The Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Dr. O’Connor’s current areas of research interests center on improving the quality of care for children and adolescents with mental health disorders through measuring and enhancing the effectiveness of evidence-based interventions, disseminating evidence-based best practices to community settings, and measuring access to mental health care.