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Dr. Michelle Kees is a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, has a Without Compensation (WOC) appointment at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and serves as the faculty lead for the Jenkins Family Community Outreach and Education Program at the Eisenberg Family Depression Center. Additionally, Dr. Kees serves as the faculty lead for Personal Resilience and Well-Being in the Michigan Medicine Office of Well-Being.  

Dr. Kees’ expertise centers on risk and resilience in women and families, including female veterans and military spouses; peer programs supporting veterans on college campuses; and evaluation and dissemination of evidence-based programs in community settings. She is the principal investigator for HomeFront Strong, a Department of Defense-funded resiliency intervention for military and veteran spouses and their children. Dr. Kees also leads a national resiliency program for female veterans, After Her Service, which focuses on the intersection of mental health and workplace success. Additionally, she directs Peer Advisors for Veteran Education (PAVE), a national peer mentorship program for student veterans returning to college under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. 

Dr. Kees received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at SUNY Stony Brook, completed a clinical internship at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL, and completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center on Child Abuse & Neglect at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She has been at the University of Michigan since 2003.