Nicole Morrison Winters started at the AIMS Center in 2021 as an Implementation Program Assistant. Previously, she worked for Seattle Public Schools in the early learning department at South Shore, and was the Local Program Coordinator for Mennonite Voluntary Service in Seattle. Outside of work, Nicole enjoys hiking, gardening, culinary arts, playing board games with her family, and building community.

Erin started with the AIMS Center in June 2018 as a project manager, then joined full time as a research scientist in July 2019. Erin received her Bachelor of Science degree in child and adolescent development from the University of Illinois in 2016, and her Master of Public Health in health services from the University of Washington in 2018. While past research projects focused primarily on qualitative research, current projects Erin is working on focus on more mixed-methods and basic quantitative data analysis support. Erin is currently part of the Research and Evaluation team, and provides analytic support to multiple projects. 

Brenna Renn is a licensed clinical psychologist, health services researcher, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She earned her PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in geropsychology from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs followed by a psychology residency at the Baylor College of Medicine. She completed an NIMH-funded T32 fellowship in geriatric mental health services research at the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, followed by two years on the UW PBSCI faculty.
Dr. Renn’s research focuses on increasing access to mental health services to adults and older adults, particularly in the context of depression and co-occurring conditions (mild cognitive impairment, chronic disease). She is interested in evidence-based care delivered in nonspecialist settings such as primary care and through novel ways of expanding the behavioral health workforce and works with UW on both the Premera Rural Mental Health Integration Initiative and the development of the Behavioral Health Support Specialist.
 

Aaron Stellarini joined the AIMS Center in March of 2023 as a Program Coordinator. He works to support the implementation of Collaborative care and numerous other AIMS Center projects. Aaron graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary English Education and taught high school English classes before volunteering with Peace Corps in China in the education sector. He also has ample experience creating, improving, and facilitating professional development and training sessions in a wide variety of contexts and settings. He loves to use the principals and foundations of his education background, such as Universal Design and Adult Learning frameworks to improve training materials and curricula.

Monica has been providing behavioral health services to individuals since 2003 in medical, educational, and community-based settings.  She also has extensive experience working with young children from her prior years of working with Head Start/Early Head Start programs.  Monica spent several years as a clinical leader working on teams in inpatient/outpatient behavioral health, nephrology, group homes, specialty medical settings and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC).  Most recently, Monica worked for a large hospital system with outpatient primary care clinics in Connecticut providing program building and leadership similar to her time at the FQHC, starting their Collaborative Care service delivery.
Joining the AIMS Center in 2022, Monica has experience with training and implementation of evidenced based Integrated Care models (Collaborative Care and Primary Care Behavioral Health).  Monica received her Bachelors in Early Childhood Education with a Special Education, Birth thru Kindergarten designation.  She also has a Masters in Social Work from a joint program between a PWI (Predominately White Institution) named the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and HBCU (Historically Black College and University) named North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, NC.

Brittany E. Blanchard, PhD is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She received her MA in Clinical Psychology at Western Carolina University and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Texas Tech University.
 
Dr. Blanchard is the Director of the Division of Population Health Analytics Team (P-HAT) and is completing the Institute of Translational Health Sciences KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program at the University of Washington. Currently, she is collaborating with the WWAMI-region Research and Practice Network (WPRN) to build and test a harm reduction intervention to be delivered in primary care settings for people who use drugs. She is also a co-investigator on NIMH-supported research. Her research interests include substance use, harm reduction, measurement-based care, implementation science, and psychometrics.