Kathleen Miley
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Credentials
PhD, CNP, PMHNP-BC
Bio
I completed my training as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) at Boston College, Connell School of Nursing (2014), and my PhD at the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing (2022). My PhD research sought to advance the science of social functioning impairments in schizophrenia spectrum disorders to lead to better identification and treatment of those at risk for functional decline, using data-driven approaches to explore potential brain and behavioral treatment targets for improving social recovery rates. This work was funded by a National Research Service Award (F31-Diversity) from the National Institute of Mental Health and a UMN Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute TL1 training grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science. I am currently an Assistant Research Investigator at HealthPartners Institute, where I lead and contribute to health services research across a variety of mental health needs, including medical comorbidities for people with serious mental illnesses, early intervention in bipolar disorder and psychosis, suicide risk reduction, and opioid use disorder in primary care. I contributed to the development and implementation of a novel expansion of coordinated specialty care services for young individuals experiencing bipolar disorder and I serve on the Early Intervention Task Force of the International Society of Bipolar Disorders as an early-career member. In my clinical role as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, I enjoy interdisciplinary teaching and caring for individuals experiencing first-episode psychosis and early bipolar disorders in our specialty programs. My overarching goal is to improve the lives of individuals experiencing serious mental illness through clinically meaningful research and health services transformation.