Staff

Clinical Research Coordinators

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• Anita Agarwal
• Holly Barilla
• Kelly Carleton
• Elisabeth Ertel
• Zachary Guy-Frank

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Holly Barilla

Holly currently runs multiple studies within the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program involving patients who have insomnia alone, or insomnia and a history of depression or cancer. Prior to joining the BSMP, Holly worked at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center primarily working with Vietnam era veterans as well as the men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Holly graduated from Wagner College with a degree in Psychology. She received multiple awards for her charity work and involvement in the NYC community. She continued her education at the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia where she is currently completing her master's thesis in Health Psychology. In her free time, Holly enjoys watching football and baseball, playing on her apartment's softball team and is training to run in a marathon.

 

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Erin Bremer

Erin runs studies in the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program focusing on insomnia and is the course administrator for the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Seminar. Before coming to Penn, she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy where she was VP of Nursing Students Without Borders, leading a group of students on an alternative medicine education experience meeting with Native American medicine men and practitioners of ancient oriental medicine. She received a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Central Florida where she was the teaching assistant for the Psychobiological aspects of drugs and alcohol course and researched how expectancies can affect subjective experiences, use and abuse in the Substance Use Research Group. She is finishing her master's in psychology at Harvard Extension School where she was a research assistant for the Mental Control lab exploring apparent mental causation and mind perception. In her free time Erin calls herself a "music geek", likes painting, reading, hiking and boating.

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