Our Team

All SPARK team members below are actively involved in our ongoing initiatives to make SPARK more accessible to providers and families and should be able to answer your questions or direct you to those who can.

Ken Ruggiero, PhD

Tatiana M. Davidson, PhD

Leigh Ridings, PhD

Hannah Espeleta, PhD

Tonya Hazelton, MS

Gabriela Becerra, BS

SPARK teammates listed below (along with their roles at the time of their work on SPARK) were also critical members of the SPARK team at various times in our development, testing, and implementation process and we greatly value their contributions.

Margaret Anton, PhD – Former postdoctoral fellow at MUSC with our SPARK team

Olivia Bravoco, BS – Program Manager at MUSC and voice of numerous audio narratives in SPARK

Rochelle Hanson, PhD – Licensed clinical psychologist, Professor, and expert TF-CBT trainer at MUSC

Benjamin Saunders, PhD – Licensed clinical psychologist, Professor, and expert TF-CBT trainer at MUSC

Brian Chu, PhD – Professor and key research collaborator (child engagement) on SPARK initiatives

Brian Bunnell, PhD – Former postdoctoral fellow at MUSC with our SPARK team

Carla Danielson, PhD – Licensed clinical psychologist, Professor, and expert TF-CBT trainer at MUSC

Lynne Nemeth, RN, PhD, FAAN – Professor at MUSC and implementation science expert

Megan Mack, MS – Program Coordinator in the College of Nursing at MUSC

Hannah Sebald, BS – Program Coordinator in the College of Nursing at MUSC

Ally Sciortino, BS – SPARK project interviewer in the College of Nursing at MUSC

Nicole Litvitskiy, BS – Research Assistant at MUSC and graduate student at Miami University

Shannon Dorsey, PhD – Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington. TPCOS developer and consultant

Josh Nissenboim – Director of technology team at Fuzzco that developed the original version of SPARK

Sachin Patel, MSc – Director of technology team that developed the latest version of SPARK

Bernard Jansen – Director of Digital Health Solutions and manager of the team that maintains SPARK

Jonathan Tindall - Lead developer and Systems Architect currently maintaining (and improving) SPARK

Jameson Burroughs, BS – Lead technical developer of the latest version of SPARK

Andrew Mathews, BS – Member of the technical team that developed SPARK

Diksha Patel – Designer and illustrator who contributed to and created SPARK designs and wireframes

We also acknowledge and thank the following individuals for their time and contributions to SPARK: Clara “Libby” Dismuke, PhD; Caroline Shanholtz, PhD; Kimberly Waters, Matthew Maraquardt, Candace Moore, Noelle Natale, Kristin Higgins, Emily Anderson, Chelsea Bongiovanni, Abbigail Bruner, John Cooley, Danna Berta Lewsky, Paige Brillyance Ramsey, Zoe Brier, PhD; and Julianna Wells.