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Michelle Colder Carras is a Graduate student in Public health specializing in Mental health (as of May 2013). She is focusing her training in methodology in mental health research and Public health informatics and has presented within her university on topics such as longitudinal electronic monitoring of Patient-reported outcomes, E-health for mental health, and video games as online microsystems. She has worked on research related to technology use by users of a community psychiatry clinic, longitudinal outcomes of video game play, and evidence development in M-health. Sadly,  she only has one publication to her name as of this writing. Her thesis research will focus on identifying young people at risk for depression based on their profiles of Internet and video game use.

Michelle is also a mental health advocate and has worked with organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration, National Alliance on Mental Illness, the National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, and Mental Health America on advocacy efforts since 1992. She is a Mental health consumer and has several family members who have been diagnosed with mental disorders.

Michelle is committed to addressing bias in information development, and as such discloses potential conflicts of interest. As both a consumer of mental health services and a public health researcher in mental health, Michelle's experience with the science behind mental health research and clinical care has led to beliefs that both research and clinical care are greatly in need of improvement. In addition, Michelle is a Gamer, which allows her the ability to more easily identify shortcomings in public health video game research. Michelle attempts to use precise and clear language to support her Wiki edits and her research in general, but users should feel free to edit her work and/or contact her with concerns about bias.