Jennifer Burt, PhD
Associate Director, MMI LEND
Associate Professor, MMI Department of Psychology
Director of Clinical Services, MMI Psychology
Director of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, MMI Psychology
Licensed Psychologist
Jennifer Burt, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Munroe-Meyer Institute, and a licensed psychologist and board certified behavior analyst in MMI's Department of Psychology. She also serves as the department's Director of Clinical Services and Director of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program at MMI, serving as a mentor/trainer for junior faculty, interns and postdoctoral fellows. In 2024, Burt was also appointed as the Associate Director of MMI's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disorders.
Burt provides clinical services in an integrated primary care clinic at Children’s Physicians Dundee. She has received funding through the CDC’s Learn the Signs Act Early campaign to assist with the development of resources for the campaign and served as the Nebraska Act Early Ambassador. Burt was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and received training in leadership and health equity. She works with a team at UNMC, University of Nebraska at Omaha and the community on hospital and community-based violence prevention efforts in Omaha called Encompass. Burt serves as a faculty trainer in integrated primary care with the Mid-America Mental Health Technology and Transfer Center.
- PhD: School Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008.
- MEd: University of Notre Dame, 2001.
- BA: University of St. Thomas, 1999.
Specialty Certifications
- Internship/Postdoctoral Training: UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute.
Burt provides patient care services at UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Psychology.
Clinic Location: Children’s Physicians Dundee (an integrated primary care Behavioral Health Clinic)
- Reidelberger, K., Raposo-Hadley, A., Greenaway, J., Farrens, A., Burt, J., Wylie, L., Armstrong, G., Foxall, M., Bauman, Z., Evans, C. (2021). Perceptions of Violence in Justice-Involved Youth. Surgery Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sopen.2021.04.002
- Valleley, R. J., Clarke, B., Roberts, H., Burt, J., Grennan, A., & Evans, J. H. (2020). Nebraska Pediatric Integrated Care Training (NE-PICT) model. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, 8(3), 304–315. https://doi.org/10.1037/cpp0000362
- Snyder, B., Farrens, A., Raposo-Hadley, A., Tibbits, M., Burt, J., Bauman, Z. M., & Evans, C. H. (2020). Dusk to Dawn: evaluating the effect of a hospital-based youth violence prevention program on youths' perception of risk. Journal of trauma and acute care surgery.
- Valleley, R.,J., Meadows, T. J., Burt, J.D., Menousek, K., Hembree, K., Gathje, R., Kupzyk, K., Sevecke, J.R., & Lancaster, B., (2020). Demonstrating the impact of colocated behavioral health in pediatric primary care. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, 8(1), 13–24.
- Valleley, Leja, A., Clarke, B., Grennan, A., Burt, J., Menousek, K., Chadwell,M. Sjuts, T., Gathje, R., Kupzyk, K., & Hembree. K. (2019). Promoting Earlier Access to Pediatric Behavioral Health Services with Co-Located Care. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 40(4), 240-248.
- Integrating pediatric behavioral health into primary care and school settings.
- Promoting parental knowledge of developmental milestones and positive parenting practices.
- Acceptance commitment therapy in primary care.
- Violence prevention and trauma.
- American Psychological Association.
- Collaborative Family Health Care Association.
- Society of Pediatric Psychology (American Psychological Association Division 54).
- Nebraska Psychological Association.
- Association for Contextual and Behavioral Sciences.
- Outstanding Clinical Provider at Munroe-Meyer Institute, 2018.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, 2017-2020.
- Silver U Award, University of Nebraska Medical Center July, 2015.
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln School Psychology Student of the Year, 2006.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Munroe-Meyer Institute
985450 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5450
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