Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Amherst College	MA	05/2009	Psychology
Boston University	MA	05/2012	Clinical Psychology
Boston University	PhD	09/2017	Clinical Psychology
Massachusetts General Hospital	Pre-doctoral clinical internship	06/2017	Clinical Psychology

Kate Bentley, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Suicide Prevention Research Program in the MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry. She is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH. Her research is focused on (1) improving the ability to understand and predict suicidal and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, and (2) using this information to guide the development, testing, and implementation of scalable, evidence-based psychological interventions. Dr. Bentley completed her PhD in clinical psychology at Boston University and her predoctoral internship in the Mass General cognitive-behavioral therapy track in 2017. She then received two institutional fellowships (a T32 and K12) as a postdoctoral fellow. She currently holds a five-year National Institute of Mental Health K23 career development award that focuses on using mobile devices (smartphones and sensors) to improve the short-term prediction of suicide risk following psychiatric hospitalization. She is also leading (as PI or MPI) several other ongoing federally-funded projects focused on evaluating and implementing scalable psychological interventions for reducing suicide risk during the post-hospitalization period.