Erica Briola is a behavioral scientist with over 15 years of experience across academic, community-based, hospital, private, consulting, and government settings. She has supported and led numerous research initiatives, including medical and patient outcomes, program evaluation, REMS support, data analytics, and scientific litigation support. Her focus areas include chronic pain, psychosocial influences and outcomes, organ transplant, ethnic disparities, liver disease, family system outcomes, substance abuse and addiction, and mental health.
Prior to joining Consilium Sciences, Erica worked with both Marquette University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Erica began her research career at Marquette University, where she contributed to numerous research projects, including investigations into pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and medication adherence through the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. She engaged in patient recruitment, patient interviews and surveys, data management, medical record review, and study design. During her time at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Erica supervised research efforts analyzing ethnic disparities, age-related factors, and psychosocial influences on chronic pain and quality of life, treatment adherence, and psychosocial functioning outcomes. Additionally, she coordinated an NIH-funded international consortium dedicated to identifying molecular targets in alcoholic hepatitis.
Erica’s expertise in integrating rigorous research methods with a behavioral science lens provides a unique perspective when working through complex client projects, leading to more robust project outcomes.
Erica received her MS in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and her BA in Psychology from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
