Founder & Director
Suicide Care, Prevention, and Research Initiative, Uniformed Services University
Dr. Holloway is a tenured Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at Uniformed Services University (USU) in Maryland, a Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and an Adjunct Faculty speaker and consultant at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy as well as the Zero Suicide Institute. Dr. Holloway received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in English Literature in 1994 from the University of California, Irvine. She received a M.A. in Pre-Clinical Psychology in 1997 from Chapman University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2003 from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Dr. Holloway completed a clinical internship at Springfield Hospital Center in 2001. Her postdoctoral training was completed in 2005 at the Center for the Treatment and Prevention of Suicide and the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Aaron T. Beck. As a licensed Psychologist, from 2003 to 2018, Dr. Holloway maintained a private clinical practice where she delivered cognitive behavioral interventions to adults, families, and couples.
Since 2006, Dr. Holloway has served as the Founder and Director for the Suicide Care, Prevention and Research Initiative (Suicide CPR Initiative) at Uniformed Services University. The mission of the Suicide CPR Initiative is threefold: (1) to develop innovative interventions to care for individuals at risk for suicide; (2) to create suicide prevention programs to educate diverse audiences; and (3) to advance suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention research. Support for Dr. Holloway’s research has been provided by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation; Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program; Department of Defense (DoD) Suicide Prevention Office; Military Operational Medicine Research Program; Military Suicide Research Consortium; the United States (U.S.) Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy Suicide Prevention Programs; and the U.S. Special Operations Command. In terms of national and international leadership positions, Dr. Holloway has previously served as one of fourteen nominated members of the U.S. Defense Health Board Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide by Members of the Armed Forces. For over a decade, she has served as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Human Factors and Medicine, Research Task Group Chair for Military Suicide and Leadership Tools for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Holloway and the Research Task Group on Military Suicide were awarded the NATO Scientific Achievement Award in 2017.
As an active scientist-practitioner, Dr. Holloway has trained and supervised graduate students, medical students, residents, clinicians working in civilian, DoD, and Department of Veterans Affairs’ settings, as well as colleagues working within the international community. In 2016, she was the recipient of Uniformed Services University Outstanding Biomedical Educator Award. Most recently in 2019-2020, Dr. Holloway trained all behavioral health providers across nine military installations in Canada in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Suicide Prevention. More broadly speaking, Dr. Holloway and her team have developed and disseminated a number of evidence-informed psychosocial programs, based on cognitive behavior therapy principles, as highlighted by (1) the Air Force Guide for Suicide Risk Assessment, Management, and Treatment; (2) the Chaplains-CARE program; (3) Special Operations Cognitive Agility Training (SOCAT); (3) Rational-Thinking and Emotional-Regulation through Problem-Solving (REPS) for newly enlisted military personnel; (4) Mil-iTransition for Service members receiving unfit for duty determinations; and (5) Post-Admission Cognitive Therapy (PACT and PACT-Together) for psychiatric inpatient settings and Intensive Outpatient Programs.