Dr. Pike serves as Chair of the Faculty Steering Committee for the Global Mental Health Programs, Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Capacity Building and Training in Global Mental Health at Columbia University, and Deputy Director of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program. She is also Senior Supervising Psychologist in the Center for Eating Disorders at CUIMC.

Dr. Pike has been involved with global initiatives focused on mental health, education, and women's health throughout her career. She has held academic and administrative university appointments in Japan where she served as Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean for Research at Temple University Japan and Visiting Professor at Keio University. She received a Faculty Fulbright Award for research on eating disorders, an area of expertise where Dr. Pike has led pioneering work on risk factors, treatment development and implementation.

Mrs. Sasae’s work as a high-level conference interpreter has taken her all around the world, most recently to the G20 Ministerial Meeting in Japan, the TPP Ministerial in Atlanta, the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, the Nikkei Future of Asia, and the Mt. Fuji Dialogue, to name only a few. When she was in Washington D.C. with her husband, Japan's Ambassador to the United States, she founded an interactive panel discussion program called, “The Nobuko Forum” and since then has promoted dialogue between female leaders and professional women in both the U.S. and Japan.

Mrs. Sasae holds a degree in English from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, and a Master of Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

For her contributions to U.S.-Japan relations and the empowerment of women, in 2018 she was the recipient of both the American Chamber of Commerce, Japan (ACCJ) Person of the Year Award and the Marshall Green Award from Japan America Society of Washington D.C.