She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011. As part of her graduate training, she completed a clinical internship in the Department of Child Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. After graduation, she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship funded by the NIAAA in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU. Dr. Mackiewicz Seghete’s research program is focused on using brain imaging to understand the impact of childhood maltreatment on developing cognitive and emotional brain mechanisms, as well as typical development of brain processes related to executive function. Clinically, her expertise is in pediatric neuropsychological assessment and treating women and children who have a history of or exposure to interpersonal violence.