Enzo is a 3rd year PhD Candidate at The Dartmouth Institute (TDI) for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and a Predoctoral Fellow in the NIDA T32 Science of Co-occurring Disorders Training Program at the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH). As a licensed paramedic, Enzo truly understands the toll of this tough profession on his own stress and mental health, but also recognizes how extremely rewarding it is to play a part in people’s individual life-changing moments. However, on a daily basis, he sees the stress of this job contribute to debilitating substance use problems in his coworkers, ruining their lives, families, and entire healthcare careers. Therefore, Enzo’s research focuses on studying the unique needs of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians and uses longitudinal data collection methods to dynamically assess predictors of substance use in high-risk populations. More recently, he has been studying self-regulation as a key transdiagnostic construct of health risk behaviors and structural equation modeling methods. Enzo’s PhD dissertation titled, “Identifying Modifiable Momentary Predictors of Substance Use in High Risk Emergency Medical Services Clinicians” is supported by a NIDA P30 pilot grant (P30DA029926) and will identify if momentary self-regulation is a key mechanism by which momentary stress impacts proximal substance use. His advisor is Dr. Catherine Stanger and committee members include Drs. Lisa Marsch and Nicholas Jacobson at CTBH. Enzo has independently engaged many national experts in research with EMS clinicians in his work, including the National Association of EMTs, the prestigious and productive National Registry of EMTs, and the National Center for PTSD. Enzo’s career goal is to be an NIH-funded investigator at an R1 institution. He plans to use intensive longitudinal designs and dynamic modeling to temporally assess key momentary risk factors for substance use in high-risk first responders. He will then use these findings to develop and test robust digital health interventions to support this population. Enzo has a Bachelor’s Degree in Neuroscience from Boston University and a Professional Degree in Paramedicine from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Emergency Medicine. His free time is often spent traveling to new destinations or outside skiing, hiking, and biking around the northeast! He also continues to work clinically as a licensed paramedic and ski patroller in a nearby town.

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