Dr. Holloway is the Founder and Director of the Suicide CPR Initiative (formerly known as the Laboratory for the Treatment of Suicide-Related Ideation and Behavior, established in 2006). She is a tenured Professor in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry (MPS) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology (2003) from Fairleigh Dickinson University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship (2005) at the Center for the Treatment and Prevention of Suicide and the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Aaron T. Beck.