Dr. Chodzen is a NIMH T32 funded Postdoctoral Scholar in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry. She graduated with her doctorate in clinical psychology from UCLA in 2024. Dr. Chodzen's research interests focus on assessing and intervening on co-occurring trauma and suicidality, particularly in acute psychiatric settings. In addition, she examines how stressors related to structural inequality impact psychological functioning and access to treatment. Her Friends of Semel Scholars project focuses on utilizing novel machine learning approaches to develop an evidence-based algorithm for screening for trauma and related symptoms among youths hospitalized for suicidality