Nancy Adler, PhD
Program Director | Reproductive health and STD, Risk-taking behaviors, Socioeconomic determinants of health; Social-cognitive model, Secondary: stress and coping theory; Quasi-experimental design, Field research, Multi-level designs |
Patricia Areán, PhD | Depression, Mild cognitive impairment, Substance abuse (all in late life and ethnic minorities); Social learning theory; Clinical trials |
Elissa Epel, PhD | Psychoneuroendocrinology, Major depression, chronic stress, and medical comorbidity (obesity, risk for cardiovascular disease), Aging; Stress, appraisal, and coping theory, Translational neuroscience; Observational cohort studies, Experimental design, Psychobiological reactivity |
Susan Folkman, PhD | AIDS, Caregiving, Bereavement; Stress, appraisal, and coping theory; Observational cohort studies |
Sharon Hall, PhD | Drug abuse and dependence; Social learning theory; Clinical trials and process methods |
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD | Adolescent decision-making and risk perceptions concerning risk behaviors, including tobacco and alcohol use and sexual behavior; Expectancy-value models, Cognitive appraisals, Theories of decision-making; Survey development, Quantitative and qualitative methodology |
Margaret Kemeny, PhD | Psychoneuroimmunology, Emotion/mood regulation, Inflammatory diseases, HIV; Cognitive appraisal models of emotion; Experimental designs, Randomized clinical trials, Observational cohort studies |
Alicia Lieberman, PhD | Traumatic stress and traumatic bereavement in infancy and early childhood; Attachment theory and trauma theory and research; Clinical trials |
Susan Millstein, PhD | Risk judgment, Decision-making, Risk behavior; Behavioral decision theory, Emotion regulation, Cognitive development; Survey research, qualitative-quantitative mix, Experimental design |
Stephen Morin, PhD | HIV/AIDS policy and intervention; Social action theory, Diffusion of Innovation theory; Randomized controlled clinical trials, Qualitative research, Policy analysis |
Judith Moskowitz, PhD | HIV and other chronic illnesses, Chronic stress; Stress and coping theory; Longitudinal field studies |
Ricardo F. Muñoz, PhD | Depression prevention and treatment, Impact of depression on other health problems, especially smoking; Social learning theory, Cognitive-behavioral interventions; Randomized control trials, Internet research, Work with Spanish-speaking populations |
Thomas Neylan, MD | Posttraumatic stress disorder, Insomnia, Major depression; Psychobiology: sleep physiology; Neuroendocrinology, Neuropeptides, Brain imaging, Psychopharmacology; Sleep Disorders: polysomnography, quantitative sleep EEG analysis, Psychopharmacology- clinical trials |
Lauri Pasch, PhD | Marital relationships and health, Social support, Infertility, Arthritis, Breast cancer; Stress, coping and adaptation, Cognitive behavioral theory; Laboratory observational studies, Field research, Clinical trials |
Victor Reus, MD | Bipolar disorder, Depression, Tourette disorder, Nicotine dependence Biological determinants of behavior; Psychopharmacology, Clinical trials, Genetics, Neuroendocrinology |
Jeanne Tschann, PhD | Parental conflict, Adolescents' sexual relationships, sexuality, risk behavior, violence; Family systems theory, Stress and coping; Path models |
Constance Weisner, DrPH | Alcohol and drug abuse; Individual, organizational, and environmental models of access and utilization of health care; Clinical and health services trials, cost-effectiveness |
Owen Wolkowitz, MD | Depression, Stress, Anxiety, Substance abuse and dementia, Psychoneuroendocrinology; Biological psychiatry; Clinical trials, Psychopharmacology |
Kristine Yaffe, MD | Dementia, Geriatric depression; Geriatric psychiatry; Clinical trials, Prospective cohorts with repeated measures |