Lily Anna Brown
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Without Compensation Employee, Michael J. Crescenz Philadelphia VA Medical Center
Director, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety
3535 Market Street Suite 600 N
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3535 Market Street Suite 600 N
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2157463346
Email:
lilybr@upenn.edu
lilybr@upenn.edu
Publications
Education
B.S. (Psychology)
Drexel University, 2008.
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
University of California, Los Angeles, 2011.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology and Learning and Behavior Psychology)
University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.
B.S. (Psychology)
Drexel University, 2008.
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
University of California, Los Angeles, 2011.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology and Learning and Behavior Psychology)
University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.
Post-Graduate Training
Resident in Clinical Psychology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, 2015-2016.
Permanent linkResident in Clinical Psychology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, 2015-2016.
Description of Research Expertise
Anxiety Disorders, Suicide, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral TherapySelected Publications
Lin, T., Godorecci, K., Zhang, C., Mackey, B., Mattoni, M., Garner, L., Brown, L.A., Guzick, A.G., & Tyler, J.: Beating OCD and Learning Digitally (BOLD): An Open Trial of a Therapist-Supported, Self-Guided Exposure and Response Prevention App for Adults with OCD Cognitive and Behavioral Practice Page: E-pub ahead of print, Mar 2026.Lea, F., Sun, T., Yap, Y., Brown, L.A., Wiley, J.F.: Temporal bidirectional dynamics of momentary stress and affect: Dynamic structural equation modelling of ecological momentary assessments. Journal of Affective Disorders 396: 120810, Mar 2026.
Hart, J., Carter, D., Hinton, C., Grilli, J., Brown, L.A., Brier, N., Lu, N., Whitman, C., Harhay, M.O., Sims, M., Alvarez, C., Miller-Matero, L.R. & O’Hayer, V.: Supporting Evidence-based Responses to Emotional Needs in Emphysema (SERENE): protocol for a randomized, open-label mechanistic trial comparing Coping Skills Training and disease-specific education for depressive symptoms conducted in United States health systems. Trials Page: E-pub ahead of print, Feb 2026.
Qiu, L., Seilheimer, R.L., Campos, G., Chang, A., Barbosa, D.A.N., Horn, A., Williams, N.R., Brown, L.A., Ganguly, T.M., Cristancho, M.A., Pesaran, B., Oathes, D.J., Miller, K.J., Scangos, K.W., Wang, Z., Magnotti, J.F., Beauchamp, M.S., Nho, Y.H. & Halpern, C.H. : Human orbitofrontal neural activity is linked to obsessive-compulsive behavioral dynamics. Cell 189(3): 739-47, Feb 2026.
Egger, E.; Kancherla, P.*; Zhu, Y.; Budhwani, H.; Denis, C.; Voytek, C.; Brown, L.A.: I want to live: a qualitative investigation of barriers and facilitators to ART adherence & mental health maintenance in people with HIV. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. Page: E-pub ahead of print, Jan 2026.
Brown, L.A., Zhu, Y., Kautz, M. & Weitz., E. : Explaining the link between PTSD and suicide: A meta-analysis to introduce The CEASE Framework. Psychological Reports Page: E-pub ahead of print, Jan 2026.
Weitz, E., Schwartz, R., Farber, E., & Brown, L.A.: Clinician perspectives on using exposure to treat obsessive compulsive disorder in pregnancy. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders 50, 2026.
Brown, Lily A.: Optimizing CBT for PTSD. Hogrefe Publishing 2026.
Joshi, S.A., Lin, T., Balderston, N., Lynch, K., Tang, M., Patel, M., Sun, I., Fureman, B., Oathes, D., Gregory, D., Sheline, Y., Brown, L.A: A mechanistic trial of the neurobiology of extinction learning and intraparietal sulcus stimulation: Protocol. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 23(49): 101591, Dec 2025.
Lin, T., Tang, M., Bauermeister, J. A., Tran, J. T., Kautz, M. M., Donnelly, H., Webster, J., Wolfe, J. R., Ben Nathan, J., Arcamano, A., Oquendo, M. A., Brown, G. K., Mandell, D., Mowery, D., & Brown, L. A.: Moderating effects of coping strategies on the associations between stigma and depression among emerging adults. Journal of Affective Disorders 390: 119843, Dec 2025.