Dr. Nadorff plans to take a doctoral student for Fall 2027.

Lab Website: www.suicidelab.com

Education

• B.A., Psychology and Computer Applications, University of Notre Dame, 2007
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, West Virginia University, 2009
• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, West Virginia University, 2012
• Doctoral Internship, Baylor College of Medicine, 2012

Professional Licenses

• Mississippi license #54 942
• PSYPACT APIT 18700

Research Interests

• Etiology, assessment, and treatment of suicidal behavior
• Behavioral sleep medicine (particularly assessment and interventions for insomnia and nightmare disorders)
• Clinical geropsychology
• The use of technology for psychological treatment

Representative Recent Publications

Dzierzewski, J.M., Nielson, S.A., Alfano, C., Badr, M.S., Boland, E., Goldschmied, J.R., Lopos, J., Kay, D.B., Nadorff, M.R., Neubauer, D.N., Palmer, C.A., & Riemann, D. (2026). Sleep health and mental health: A position statement from the National Sleep Foundation. Sleep Health, 12(3), 531-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2026.03.002

Buerke, M., Stivers, M., Kapoulea, E., Edwards, A., Bootes, K., Capron, D.W., Tucker, R.P., & Nadorff, M.R. (2026). Knowledge of suicide risk assessment and intervention procedures among psychology doctoral students in the United States. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000341

Buerke, M., Fowler, H., Kapoulea, E., Edwards, A., Bootes, K., Tucker, R.P., Capron, D.W., & Nadorff, M.R. (2026). The impact of personal and other client loss to suicide on psychology students' confidence in suicide risk assessment and likelihood of taking a future suicidal client. Archives of Suicide Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2026.2671358

Rufino, K.A., Patriquin, M.A., Worley, C.B., & Nadorff, M.R. (2026). Prevalence of clinically relevant nightmares and their differences by sex and diagnosis in psychiatric inpatients. Sleep Medicine, 137, 106900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106900

Bolstad, C.J., & Nadorff, M.R. (2026). Dog tired: A cross-sectional examination of the relation between dog and/or cat ownership and owners' sleep. Journal of Sleep Research, 35(2), e70188. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.70188

Full list of publications can be found here: https://suicidelab.com/publications/

Current Grant Funding

2026 - 2031 Project BRIDGE: Brief Intervention and Referral to Get Youth Engaged
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SBIRT)
Total Costs: $4,925,980
Role: PI

2026 - 2031 Mississippi Youth Resilience Center (MY-REC)
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative)
Total Costs: $2,999,431
Role: Evaluator (PI: Rieger)

2026 - 2030 SAFE RESPONSE MS: First Responder Overdose Reversal Training and Post-Overdose System of Care
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (FR-CARA)
Total Costs: $3,174,422
Role: Co-Project Director (Project Director: D. Nadorff)

2026 - 2030 Bulldogs RISE: Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Total Costs: $499,652
Role: Evaluator and Senior Scientific Advisor (Project Director: Kavalsky)

2026 - 2029 Enhancing our Capacity to Treat Substance Use Disorder Among Mississippi College Students
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Targeted Capacity Expansion)
Total Costs: $1,125,000
Role: PI

2026 - 2029 MHART: Mental Health Awareness and Response Training
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Total Costs: $598,510
Role: Assistant Project Director (Project Director: Kimbrough)

2026 - 2027 The Mississippi Rebound Initiative
Funding Agency: Mississippi Opioid Settlement Fund
Total Costs: $700,000
Role: PI

2024 - 2028 Treating Clinical High Risk for Psychosis in Mississippi
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Total Costs: $2,335,289
Role: Site PI (PI: Jones, University of Southern Mississippi)

2023 - 2028 Healthy Transitions Mississippi
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Total Costs: $3,749,850
Role: PI

2023 Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) for the Treatment of Nightmares in Central Disorders of Hypersomnolence: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Funding Agency: The American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Total Costs: $250,000
Role: Co-I (PI: Mundt)

Past Grant Funding

2024 - 2028 Treating Clinical High Risk for Psychosis
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: Treating Clinical High Risk for Psychosis in Mississippi
Total Costs: $2,335,289
Role: Co-PI

2021 – 2024 R15 AREA Grant; National Institutes of Health (NIMH)
Number: R15 MH122937
Topic: An Experimental Approach to Emotion Regulation: Investigating Rumination, Cognitive Control, and Maladaptive Behaviors
Total Costs: $412,355
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: DeShong)

2022 – 2025 R15 AREA Grant; National Institutes of Health (NIMH)
Number: R15 MH127565
Topic: Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Behavioral Change in Older Adults with Hoarding Disorder
Total Costs: $436,500
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Dozier)

2022 – 2025 AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education)
Number: R15 MH127565
Topic: Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Behavioral Change in Older Adults with Hoarding Disorder
Total Costs: $436,500
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Dozier)

2023 Strategic Rearch Grant: Central Disorders of Hypersomnolence Research
Funding Agency: The American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Grant title: Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) for the Treatment of Nightmares in Central Disorders of Hypersomnolence: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Total Costs: $250,000
Role: Co-I (PI: Mundt)

2023 - 2028 Healthy Transitions
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: Healthy Transitions Mississippi
Total Costs: $3,749,850
Role: PI

2021 – 2026 Mental Health Awareness Training grant
Funding Agency: SAMHSA
Grant Title: Extending the Mental Health Network of Mississippi Through Mental Health Awareness Training
Total costs: $624,995
Role: PI

2019 – 2024 Drug Free Communities Grant
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: Drug Free Starkville Collaboration
Total Costs: $624,385
Role: PI

2019 - 2024 Garrett Lee Smith State Suicide Prevention Grant (subcontract from MS Dept. of Mental Health)
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: Innovative MSU Cares - Preventing and Responding to Mississippi Youth Suicide
Total Costs: $1,678,552
Role: Co-PI (with Dr. Emily Stafford also as Co-PI)

2020 - 2022 Garrett Lee Smith State Suicide Prevention Grant
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: It Takes A Community: A Comprehensive, Collaborative Suicide Prevention Program
Total Costs: $305,965
Role: PI

2020 – 2021 Mississippi Governor’s Emergency Education Response (GEER) Grant
Funding Agency: State of Mississippi
Grant Title: Improving Mississippi Mental Healthcare Through Telehealth
Total costs: $217,906
Role: PI

2020 – 2021 Mississippi Governor’s Emergency Education Response (GEER) Grant
Funding Agency: State of Mississippi
Grant Title: Mental Health Gatekeeper Trainings
Total costs: $174,411
Role: Co-I (PI: Dr. Mary Nelson Robertson)

2020 – 2022 Rural Opioids Technical Assistance Grant
Funding agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: PReventing Opioid Misuse In the SouthEast: PROMISE Initiative 3.0
Total costs: 1,098,846
Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. David Buys)

2017 - 2020 R15 AREA Grant (Competitive Renewal); National Institutes of Health (NIMH)
Number: R15 MH101573-02
Topic: Reward Devaluation, Positive Valence Systems Disturbance, and Impairment
Total Costs: $417,379
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Sam Winer)

2014 - 2017 R15 AREA Grant; National Institutes of Health (NIMH)
Number: 1R15MH101573
Topic: Subchance Perception of Positive Information, Psychopathology, and Impaired Functioning
Total Costs: $416,388
Role: Co-Investigator

2013 - 2016 Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant
Funding Agency: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Grant title: Making Suicide a Never Event at MSU
Total Costs: $304,073
Role: Primary Investigator