Sabrina Menezes, M.A.
PhD Student
Sabrina is a PhD student in the applied social psychology program. She is the project co-director of the Physician Wellness Research Lab at CGU. Sabrina is passionate about applying theories and concepts from social psychology to improve healthcare providers' mental health and well-being. Recently, she conducted a study to investigate how past medical school experiences influence stigma and the intention to seek help for depression in resident physicians.
Selected Work
Menezes, S., Guldner, G. (2025). Well-being among physicians in training: Barriers to
treatment and efforts to increase help seeking for depression. In M. Yzer & J. T. Siegel (Eds.), The handbook of mental health communication. Wiley.
Menezes, S., Carpenter, K. M., Marshburn, A. W., Ramirez, S., Guldner, G., Wells,
J. C., & Siegel, J. T. (2024). A qualitative follow-up to a survey of program directors on wellness programming at a large healthcare organization: Interviews of high- and low-exemplar programs. HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine, 5(3), 265-284. https://doi.org/10.36518/2689-0216.1807
Marshburn, A. W. Riazi, G., Menezes, S., Ramirez, S., Guldner, G. Wells, J. C. & Siegel,
J. T. (2024). A nation-wide survey of program directors at a large healthcare organization: Prevalence and perceptions of resident wellness activities. HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine, 5(3), 251-263. https://doi.org/10.36518/2689-0216.1808
Menezes, S., Carpenter, K. M., Diaz, J. B. B., Guldner, G., & Siegel, J. T. (2025). Learning from the past: Medical school experiences, stigma, and help-seeking for depression. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
Menezes, S., Ayutyanont, N., Wells, J. C., Guldner, G. T., Siegel., J. T. (2025). Response
rates and data quality: A genuine concern, unnecessary angst, or something in-between. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
Carpenter, K. M., Menezes, S., Diaz, J. B. B., Wells, J. C., Guldner, G., & Siegel, J. T.
(2025). Learning from the past: Medical school experiences predict meaning in work and imposter phenomenon among residents? [Manuscript submitted for publication].
Menezes, S., Carpenter, K. M., Menezes, M., Diaz, J. B. B., Wells, J. C., Guldner, G., & Siegel, J. T. (February, 2025). Learning from the past: Medical school experiences, stigma, and help seeking for depression [Poster session]. ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
Menezes, S. (May, 2024). Learning from the past: Medical school experiences, stigma, and help seeking for depression [Oral presentation]. Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, California.
Martinez, E., Soong, M., Menezes, S., Carrera, A., Colon, J., Nguyen, L., Bava, L., Balderrama, M., Mucci, G., Kayser, K., Ingman, K., Hustzi, H., Huynh, V., & Patel, S. K. Differences in social functioning in Latino pediatric leukemia survivors from primarily Spanish-speaking versus English-speaking families [Oral presentation]. Society of Pediatric Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Menezes, S., & Siegel, J. T. (August, 2024). Supporting mental health and reducing stigma [Oral presentation]. HCA Healthcare’s Resident Experience and Retention Summit, Nashville, Tennessee.
Menezes, S., & Siegel, J. T. (September, 2023). Barriers to treatment and efforts to increase help-seeking for depression [Oral presentation]. HCA Healthcare’s Wellness and Retention Conference, Amelia Islands, Florida.
Williams, M., Walsh, C., Engelbertson, A., Menezes, S., & Sampaio, C. (May, 2017). The combination mechanism causing category distortions in a 3D virtual environment [Poster session]. Annual Convention of the NorthWest Cognition and Memory Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.
