Title: Professor
Education:
UCSF, PhD, Health Psychology
Postgraduate Training:
UCLA, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Immunology and Psychoneuroimmunology
Educational Expertise:
psychoneuroimmunology, health psychology, biological bases of health psychology and emotion and health
Research Areas:
psychoneuroimmunology; relationship between psychological factors, neurophysiological mechanisms and disease processes, particularly in HIV-1 and inflammatory diseases; effects of cognitive representations on emotion, physiology and health; threats to social status and their effects on cognitive representations of the self and self-conscious emotions including shame, as well as the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis and the cytokine network, particularly pro-inflammatory cytokines and cognitive representations of future health and their physiological correlates and health consequences; the role of expectancies in the effects of placebos on inflammatory processes
Administrative Assistant: Russell Heiman - Contact Information
Campus Location: Laurel Heights
Publications on PubMed »
Affective Science Predoctoral Training Program