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Throughout her third year at the Derner Institute, Marie Barnett has mastered the art of multitasking to an especially impressive degree. In JulyÌý2012, Marie began a predoctoral fellowship position at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), whichÌýcontinues through August 2014. She is in the process of publishing her second year project, which is a qualitativeÌýstudy involving adolescent survivors of cancer, and has devoted her research to the experience of self-disclosureÌýamong young cancer survivors.

She has recently presented several posters; she presented “Parent and Peer Attachment Quality and Posttraumatic Growth among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors” at theÌýAnnual Meeting of the American Psychological Oncology Society in February; “Self-Disclosure of Cancer History in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors” at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in March; and “Cancer-Related Self-Disclosure among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors” at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in March, ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Annual Research Conference in April, and theÌýMSKCC Survivorship Research Symposium in May. She received the award for Outstanding Graduate PosterÌýPresentation at the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Research Conference. Along with her work through MSKCC, Marie is an extern at Maimonides Medical Center and continues to see patients at ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ’s Center for Psychological Services.