FACULTY (Core & Affiliated)
CORE FACULTY
Overview of Faculty Interests and Expertise: Problem/Area studied; Major theoretical perspective; Expertise or methodology
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
Maria Bleil, PhD
Psychosocial factors in reproductive and cardiovascular health; Women’s health;
Depression; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Stress, appraisal, and coping theory;
Observational cohort studies; Experimental design
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
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
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
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Jennifer
Alvidrez, PhD
Access to mental health and drug treatment services by underserved
populations
Elizabeth
Bachen, PhD
Clinical psychology; Women's health; How psychological stress
affects health; Psychosocial and biological mechanisms of stress and health;
Psychoneuroimmunology
Cherrie
Boyer, PhD
Adolescent and young adult health; Biopsychosocial antecedents of
sexual risk behaviors and the role that these factors play in STIs, and their
sequelae
Jennifer Boyd,
PhD
Influence of sociocultural factors on psychopathology and its detection
(e.g., influence of stigma on the course of psychosis, effect of isolated and
confined environments on mental health, effect of culture on symptom patterns
and accuracy of assessment instruments)
Claire
Brindis, DrPH
Adolescent and child health policy; Adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy
prevention; Adolescent health and risk-taking behaviors; Reproductive health
services; School-based and integrated health and social services; Adolescent
health policy, and women's health
Heather Burke,
PhD
Comorbidity between depression and inflammatory disease;
hormone-immune interactions; cytokines and the CNS; psychoneuroimmunology and
psychoneuroendocrinology; biological responses to stress; obesity and adipokines
Frances Cohen,
PhD
Stress and disease; Stress and coping; Psychological foundations of
patient care and personality
Lawrence
Fisher, PhD
Personal, family, social context, and care system characteristics as
they relate to management of chronic disease, especially diabetes CVD and
asthma, including ethnicity and gender in these processes; Automated systems of
patient and practice intervention and monitoring to enhance management of
chronic disease; Psychotherapy and behavioral interventions for patients with
behavioral problems in primary care settings
Steven E.
Gregorich, PhD
Comparison, evaluation, development, and application of statistical
methods that are widely applicable in public health research: models for complex
dependent data, structural equation models with latent variables, methods for
missing data, and the bootstrap
Mardi
Horowitz,
MD
Impact of stress, loss, character structure and change processes in
psychotherapy
Charles
Irwin, MD
Risky behaviors during adolescence; Methods of identifying
adolescents who are prone to initiate health-damaging behaviors during the
second decade of life
Mallory
Johnson, PhD
Behavioral medicine; Health psychology; HIV; AIDS; Behavioral
interventions; Adherence; Compliance; Side effects management; Provider
relations
Patti
Katz, PhD
Functional and psychosocial outcomes of arthritis; Examining and
defining disability relationship between disability and depression
Susan
Kegeles, PhD
HIV/AIDS; HIV prevention; Social/behavioral issues in health
promotion/disease prevention; Young gay/bisexual men, gay men, African American
men who have sex with men (MSM); Risk reduction; Community-level interventions;
Translating research to practice; Community-based organizations; Latin American
men who have sex with men (MSM); Youth and HIV prevention; Community-based
research; Implementation research
Rachel Kimerling, PhD
Sara
Knight, PhD
Improving measurement of patient preferences and comprehensive
outcomes in prostate cancer care; Ethnic minority and low socioeconomic status
populations; Evaluation of new technologies (e.g., Internet, CD ROM) in
treatment decision-making
Miriam
Kuppermann, PhD, MPH
Patient preferences; Informed decision making; Decision-assisting
tools; Outcomes research; Guidelines for prenatal diagnostic testing; Management
of non-cancerous uterine conditions
Robert Levenson, PhD
Human psychophysiology and affective neuroscience: interplay
between psychological and physiological processes; Nature of human emotion (in
terms of its physiological manifestations); Variations in emotion associated
with age, gender, culture and clinical pathology; Role emotion plays in
interpersonal interactions
Bernard Lo, MD
Decisions about life-sustaining treatment; Ethical dilemmas
regarding AIDS; Ethical issues in managed care; Confidentiality of computerized
medical records; Impact of the Internet and direct-to-consumer advertising on
the doctor-patient relationship
Christina
Maslach, PhD
Job burnout and health psychology; Individuation and dissent; Gender
roles
Elizabeth
Ozer, PhD
Adolescents family health and development of self-efficacy;
Intervention studies on implementing and evaluating adolescent clinical
preventive services; Effects of delivering preventive services on adolescent
risk behavior; Helping families foster the healthy development of adolescents,
with focus on combining work and family
Emily Ozer, PhD
School and community-based interventions; Promotion of mental and
physical health among adolescents; Violence prevention; Trauma and Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder
Eliseo
Pérez-Stable, MD
Risk factor reduction for Latino populations: 1) Program Latino
Para Dejar de Fumar to decrease nicotine dependence in San Francisco Latinos; 2)
En Accion Contra el Cancer to promote screening procedures for early detection
of breast and cervical cancer, smoking cessation, decreased alcohol consumption,
and changes in dietary habits to promote a healthier lifestyle
Mary-Ann
Shafer, MD
Diagnosis of chlamydial infections and other STDs in teens; Health
services research in the area of translating preventive health guidelines into
everyday practice; Cognitive-behavioral-skills building prevention interventions
to prevent STDs and HIV among adolescents and young adult populations
James Sorensen,
PhD
Substance abuse and mental health; Prevention and treatment of AIDS
and other infectious diseases
Anita
Stewart, PhD
Reducing health disparities through community-based interventions;
Methodological issues in studies of health disparities and minority health;
Interpersonal processes of care - between patients and physicians - to be
appropriate for patients with limited English proficiency and/or from
ethnic/racial minorities
Rebecca
Turner, PhD
Social science research applied to businesses and organizational
consulting; Quantitative and interview methods in organizational studies,
including survey design and analysis; Meeting facilitation and conflict
resolution; Emotion and social psychological perspectives
Daniel Weiss,
PhD
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, treatment and psychopathology;
Dissociative phenomena; Classification and measurement methods; Informed
consent; Crying
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