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Kelly E. Moore, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at ETSU. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from George Mason University in 2016 and completed a NIDA postdoctoral fellowship in substance use prevention research at Yale School of Medicine before beginning her position at ETSU. Her primary research interests center on reducing stigma and barriers to evidence-based care in the legal system. Her work has been funded by ETSU, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network, and the American Psychological Foundation. She is also involved in the SMART Policy Network that develops legal briefs to inform legislators about evidence-based practices in the legal system. In her free time, Dr. Moore enjoys time with family, gardening, horror movies, and yoga. 

Kelly E. Moore, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
East Tennessee State University

mooreke2@etsu.edu

Current Graduate Students

Rachelle Kromash

Rachelle is a sixth year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at ETSU and is currently completing her predoctoral internship at Denver Health Medical Center in Denver Colorado. Her research interests include understanding the barriers individuals face as they leave incarceration and re-enter into the community. The barriers she is interested in include substance use, mental health symptomology, treatment access, and lack of post-release planning. Rachelle intends to explore how manipulating social psychological variables (e.g., self-efficacy, emotion regulation) can change how justice-involved individuals face these barriers. Her clinical interests include working with groups that have interfaced with the criminal justice system such as persons that are experiencing homelessness and minority populations. In her free time, Rachelle enjoys hiking, playing soccer, spending time with family, and watching Law and Order: SVU. 

Madison Smith 

Madison is in her fifth year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at ETSU and is currently completing her predoctoral internship at the Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, West Virginia. Her research interests include improving mental health care among justice-involved individuals, specifically those with substance use or personality disorder diagnoses, and those who are from underserved populations. Madison’s clinical interests include working with individuals involved in the criminal justice system and individuals with substance use and personality disorder diagnoses. She enjoys spending time with her two cats, listening to music/going to shows, and doing puzzles in her free time. 

Dee Meadows 

Dee Meadows, MSW, is a fifth year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at ETSU and is currently completing her predoctoral training internship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Her current research interests include harm reduction, substance use disorders, stigma, and reentry. She is a recent graduate of the NC State University Master of Social Work program, with a concentration in substance use and recovery. Diamond has completed training and education related to substance use prevention and treatment during her time as an Opioid Workforce Expansion Program scholar. She is passionate about providing mental health and substance use services to those in rural communities. 

Zackary Mullins

Zackary Mullins is a second-year clinical psychology doctoral student at ETSU and joined the CARE lab in 2024. His current research interests include understanding the ways in which individual-level factors, such as identity factors, personality traits, and sociodemographic characteristics, influence how individuals involved in the legal system experience and are impacted by stigma. He is also interested in exploring ways to improve and tailor mental health treatment within correctional settings and prepare individuals experiencing incarceration for successful reentry into the community. His clinical interests include working with historically underserved and marginalized populations and those with personality and substance use disorders. In his free time, Zackary enjoys spending time with family and friends, cooking, and finding albums to add to his vinyl record collection. 

Deanna Rusielewicz

Deanna Rusielewicz is a first-year clinical psychology doctoral student at ETSU who joined the CARE Lab in 2023. Her research interests include emotion dysregulation, identity disturbance, and understanding the specific mechanisms through which people with personality disorders or those who have experienced trauma come to be involved in the legal system. Deanna is also interested in finding practical ways to implement evidence-based mental health and substance use treatments in rural legal settings alongside reducing stigma and bettering re-entry outcomes. Deanna’s clinical interests include working with historically underserved and/or stigmatized populations, including those with personality and substance use disorders, as well as individuals with prior or current legal involvement. Outside of school, Deanna loves reading, watching movies/TV shows, as well as hosting game nights with her friends. 

Past Graduate Student Trainees

Shania Siebert, PhD 

Dr. Siebert is a staff psychologist at the Federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Texas. Her clinical interests include working with individuals who are involved with the criminal legal system and leading treatment groups for individuals involved with the criminal legal system, who have experienced trauma. In her free time, Shania enjoys spending time with her family and friends, playing with her goldendoodle, and going to country music concerts. 

Current Undergraduate Lab Members

• Madison Haithcock - Joined in 2026

Former Undergraduate Lab Members

• Alaya Shelton
• Kylie Simmerly
• Hayley Browning
• Vicki Williams
• Trenton Shirks
• Candice Seymore
• Kennedy Goforth
• Yasmine Punceles
• Michael Vaughn
• Taylor Osborne