We have three Major Areas of Study:
- Behavioral Medicine/Health Psychology (BMed)
- Experimental Psychopathology (EP)
- Neuropsychology (Neuro)
The table below is a comprehensive list of faculty who have appointments to our Clinical Psychology program. Please click HERE for a List of Faculty Interested in Taking a Student for Fall 2023.
| ↕First Name | ↕Last Name | ↕Affiliation | ↕Major Area(s) of Study | ↕Research Area Key Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory | Aarons | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | Implementation Science; Child Neglect; HIV Prevention; International |
| Niloofar | Afari | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | Pain; Obesity; Trauma; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; eHealth Technology; Veterans |
| Natacha | Akshoomoff | UC San Diego | Neuro | Pediatric Neuropsychology; Preterm Birth; Academic Development; Children; Prenatal Substance Exposure; Rare Genetic Syndromes; Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| Nader | Amir | SDSU | EP | Anxiety Disorders; Interventions; Etiology |
| Greg | Appelbaum | UC San Diego | Neuro/EP | Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroimaging; EEG; Neurostimulation |
| Elva | Arredondo | SDSU | BMed | Latino families; Cancer Screening; Physical Activity Promotion; Health Disparities; Dissemination and Implementation Science |
| Catherine | Ayers | UC San Diego | EP | Hoarding Disorders; Interventions; Lifespan |
| Katherine | Bangen | UC San Diego | Neuro | Neuroimaging; Aging; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Dementia; Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Sarah | Banks | UC San Diego | Neuro | Alzheimer's; PET; MRI; Cognition; Aging |
| Ursula | Bellugi | UC San Diego | Neuro | Language; Cognition; Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Aaron | Blashill | SDSU | BMed/EP | Body Image, Sexual Orientation, HIV, Eating Pathology, Skin Cancer Prevention, Anabolic Steroids, Health Disparities, Medication Adherence |
| Cinnamon | Bloss | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | Biomedical Technology; Genetics; Biomedical Ethics; Mobile Health |
| Jessica | Bomyea | UC San Diego | EP/NP | PTSD; Anxiety; Cognition; Neuroimaging |
| Mark | Bondi | UC San Diego | Neuro | Aging; Dementia; Neuroimaging; Older Adults; Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Kerri | Boutelle | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | Obesity; Eating Disorders; Children; Adolescents; Parenting Interventions; Cue Reactivity |
| Lauren | Brookman-Frazee | UC San Diego | EP | Implementation Science; Community Effectiveness and Implementation Trials; Children’s Mental Health Services; Community Services for Autism Spectrum Disorder; Parent-mediated Interventions; Clinician Training |
| Sandra J. | Brown | UC San Diego | Neuro | Neuropsychological Evaluation; Children; Adolescents; Developmental Psychopathology |
| Sandra A. | Brown | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | Substance Use Disorders; Adolescents; Adults; Stress and Coping; Psychiatric Comorbidity |
| Kristin | Cadenhead | UC San Diego | EP/Neuro | Schizophrenia; Interventions |
| Veronica | Cardenas | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | Cancer |
| Ruth | Carper | SDSU | Neuro | Autism Spectrum Disorders; Neuroimaging; Neuroanatomy; MRI; Cognition; Aging; Children; Lifespan; Development |
| Leslie | Carver | UC San Diego | Neuro | Social Development; Cognitive Development; Memory; Face Processing; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Typical Development; Children |
| Mariana | Cherner | UC San Diego | Neuro | CNS effects of HIV and substance use; Cannabis; Methamphetamine; Culturally/Linguistically Competent Assessment; Spanish-Speakers |
| Jody | Corey-Bloom | UC San Diego | Neuro | Dementia; Alzheimer’s Disease; Huntington’s Disease; Multiple Sclerosis; Treatment |
| Kelly | Courtney | UC San Diego | EP | Substance Use; Addiction; Craving; Virtual Reality; Neuroimaging; Interventions |
| Terry | Cronan | SDSU | BMed/Neuro | Health Disparities; Cancer Prevention; Empowerment Based Interventions; Social Support; Coping with Chronic Diseases; Multicultural Issues |
| Zafiris 'Jeff' | Daskalakis | UC San Diego | EP | Depression, Neurophysiology, Schizophrenia, rTMS, Treatments |
| Lisa | Delano-Wood | UC San Diego | Neuro | Normal Aging; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Alzheimer’s Disease; Dementia; Cognitive Functioning; Vascular Risk; Traumatic Brain Injury; Neuroimaging |
| Dean | Delis | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cognitive Neuropsychology; Neuropsychological Test Development |
| Colin | Depp | UC San Diego | EP/BMed | Bipolar Disorder; Aging; Psychosocial Interventions; Adherence |
| Neal | Doran | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | Tobacco Use and Interventions |
| Emily | Edmonds | UC San Diego | Neuro | Early Dementia Diagnosis; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Vascular Risk; Normal Aging; Mild Cognitive Impairment |
| Lisa | Eyler | UC San Diego | Neuro/BMed | Cognitive Functioning; Emotional Functioning; Neuroimaging; Schizophrenia; Bipolar Disorder; Aging; Autism; Healthy Aging; Older Adults |
| J. Vincent | Filoteo | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cognitive Neuroscience; Memory; Categorization; Attention; Visual Perception; Subcortical Neurological Disease |
| Inna | Fishman | SDSU | Neuro/EP | Autism Spectrum Disorders; Neurodevelopmetal Disorders; Neuroimaging; MRI; Developmental Neuropsychology; Children & Adolescents |
| Linda | Gallo | SDSU | BMed | Sociocultural Factors; Chronic Disease Interventions; Diabetes; Cardiovascular Disease; Health Disparities; Hispanic/Latino Health |
| Jay | Giedd | UC San Diego | BMed/Neuro | Brain Imaging; Genetics; Neuroscience; Brain Development; Digital Technology; Children |
| Paul | Gilbert | SDSU | Neuro | Aging; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Alzheimer’s Disease; Huntington’s Disease; Parkinson’s Disease |
| Tamar | Gollan | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cognitive Functining in Biligualism; Aging; Alzheimer’s Disease; Differential Diagnosis |
| Amanda | Gooding | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cognitive Rehabilitation; Epilepsy; Schizophrenia; Alzheimer’s Disease; Post-Operative Recovery; Cross-cultural Neuropsychology; Normative Studies |
| Eric | Granholm | UC San Diego | EP/Neuro | Schizophrenia, Dementia; Cognitive Neuropsychology; Psychophysiology; Pupillometry; Attention; Memory; CBT for Psychosis |
| Igor | Grant | UC San Diego | Neuro/BMed | Stressors; Human Coping; Health; Alcohol Use Disorders; Drug Abuse; HIV; AIDS |
| Erik | Groessl | UC San Diego | BMed | Hepatis C; Complimentary Medicine; Integrative Medicine; Yoga; Chronic Diseases; Aging |
| Frank | Haist | UC San Diego | Neuro | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience; Perception; Face and Object Processing; Children; Memory; Language; Attention; FMRI |
| Deborah | Harrington | UC San Diego | EP/Neuro | Neuroimaging, Cognition, Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury, imaging genetics |
| Robert | Heaton | UC San Diego | Neuro | HIV Infection; Schizophrenia; Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction; Demographic Influences on Test Performance; Everyday Functioning; Cross-cultural (International) Neuropsychology |
| Eric | Hekler | UC San Diego | BMed | Digital Health; Behavior Change; Optimization of Behavioral Interventions; Micro-randomization Trials; Control Systems Engineering as Applied to Human Behavior |
| Jonathan | Helm | SDSU | BMed/EP | Quantitative Psychology; Longitudinal Data Analysis; Measurement of Psychological Constructs |
| Matt | Herbert | UC San Diego | BMed | Chronic pain; Mindfulness; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Biopsychosocial model |
| Phillip | Holcomb | SDSU | Neuro | Language Comprehension; Healthy Adults; Children; Cognitive Impairment; Multi/Bilingual Language Processing; Event-Related Potentials (ERPs); MRI; Magnetoencephalography (MEG) |
| Suzi | Hong | UC San Diego | BMed | Inflammation; Immunity; Stress; Mood; Cognition; Obesity; Fitness/Exercise; Cardiovascular Diseases; HIV |
| Keith | Horvath | SDSU | BMed | HIV; Mobile Health; Sexual/Gender Minorities; Adolescents; Medication Adherence; International |
| Tristen | Inagaki | SDSU | BMed/NP | Neuroimaging; MRI; Social and Affective Neuroscience; Health Neuroscience; Pharmacology; PNI; Psychophysiology; Social Support; Close Relationships; Emotion |
| Jennifer | Iudicello | UC San Diego | Neuro | HIV; Substance Use Disorders; Aging; Vascular Injury |
| Joanna | Jacobus | UC San Diego | Neuro | Healthy Adolescent Neurodevelopment; Substance Use; Alcohol; Cannabis; Neuroimaging; Risk Taking Behaviors; Interventions |
| Amy | Jak | UC San Diego | Neuro | Traumatic Brain Injury; Aging; Veterans; Mental Health Comorbidities; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Protective Behavioral Factors |
| Terry | Jernigan | UC San Diego | Neuro | Neuroimaging; Developing Children; Genetic Factors; HIV |
| Dilip | Jeste | UC San Diego | EP | Tardive Dyskinesia; Late Onset Schizophrenia |
| Emily | Kappenman | SDSU | EP/Neuro | Cognition; Emotion; Neuroscience; Anxiety; Schizophrenia; Event-Related Potentials (ERPs); Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) |
| John | Kelsoe | UC San Diego | EP | Genetics of Psychiatric Illness; Bipolar Disorder; Molecular Genetics |
| William | Kremen | UC San Diego | Neuro/EP | Behavioral Genetics; Twin Studies; Cognitive Aging; Dementia; Neuroimaging; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Marta | Kutas | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cognitive Neuroscience; Language; Memory; Electrophysiology; Mood |
| Ariel | Lang | UC San Diego | EP | Anxiety Disorders; Trauma-related Disorders; Assessment; Interventions |
| Gregory | Light | UC San Diego | Neuro/EP | Schizophrenia; Neurophysiological Endophenotypes; Neurocognitive Endotypes |
| Annika | Linke | SDSU | Neuro | Autism Spectrum Disorders; Children; Lifespan Development; Sensory Processing; Neuroimaging; Multimodal MRI |
| Vanessa | Malcarne | SDSU | BMed/EP | Cancer; Rheumatic Diseases; Health Disparities; Prevention; Quality of Life; Test Construction/Validation; Multicultural Issues |
| Thomas | Marcotte | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cannabis; Cognition; Everyday Functioning; HIV |
| Ksenija | Marinkovic | SDSU | Neuro/BMed | Neuroimaging; MEG/EEG; Cognitive Control; Alcohol Intoxication; Binge Drinking; Language; Face Processing; Autism |
| Victoria | Merritt | UC San Diego | Neuro | TBI; Cognition; Sports-related Concussion; Military/Veterans; Mental Health |
| Georg | Matt | SDSU | BMed/EP | Tobacco Smoke Exposure; Quantitative Psychology; Program Evaluation; Meta-Analysis |
| Sarah | Mattson | SDSU | Neuro | Developmental Disabilities; Children; Prenatal Alcohol Exposure; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Attention; Response Inhibition; Jacobsen Syndrome |
| Brent | Mausbach | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | Stress and Coping; Health Outcomes; Adults; Aging; Schizophrenia |
| Jeffrey | Max | UC San Diego | Neuro | Traumatic Brain Injury; Stroke; Neuroimaging; Children; Adolescents |
| Jessica | McCurley | SDSU | BMed | Health Behaviors; Health Equity; Low-Wage Workers; Depression; Type 2 Diabetes; Physical Activity; Social Determinants of Health; Health Policy; Participatory Research; Border Health/Migrant Health |
| Carrie | McDonald | UC San Diego | Neuro | Epilepsy; Impact of Surgical Resection; Neuroimaging; Localization of Language And Memory Processing; Alzheimer’s Disease; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Brain Tumors |
| Paul | Mills | UC San Diego | BMed | Psychoneuroimmunology; Inflammation; Stress; Hypertension; Breast Cancer; Spaceflight |
| Jessica | Montoya | UC San Diego | BMed | Implementation Science; Integrated Care; Mobile Health Interventions; Substance Use Disorders; HIV/AIDS; Aging |
| Eileen | Moore | SDSU | Neuro | Neurodevelopment; Lifespan; Prenatal Alcohol Exposure; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders |
| Raeanne | Moore | UC San Diego | Neuro/EP | Mobile Technologies; Cognitive Functioning; Emotional Functioning; Older Adults; Chronic Medical Conditions; HIV; Serious Mental Illness; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Everyday Functioning Among; Real-Time Assessment |
| David | Moore | UC San Diego | Neuro/BMed | HIV; HIV prevention; Bipolar Disorder; Depression; Alzheimer’s Disease; Successful Aging; Substance Use Disorders; Neuropsychology, Everyday Functioning; Medication Adherence, Mobile Assessment and Intervention |
| Erin | Morgan | UC San Diego | Neuro/BMed | HIV; Addiction; Everyday Functioning; Cognitive Reserve; Intraindividual Variability; Social Cognition; Emotional Cognition |
| Leslie | Morland | UC San Diego | EP/BMed | PTSD; Veterans; Telehealth |
| Ralph-Axel | Müller | SDSU | Neuro | Autism Spectrum Disorders; Children; Lifespan Development; Multimodal MRI; Brain Connectivity; Biomarkers |
| Claire | Murphy | SDSU | Neuro | Sensory-Perceptual Changes; Aging; Cognitive Function; Dementia; Alzheimer’s Disease; Evoked Potentials; FMRI |
| Mark | Myers | UC San Diego | BMed | Tobacco Cessation; Adolescents; Young Adults; Psychiatric Disorders |
| Sharon | Nichols | UC San Diego | Neuro | Pediatric Neuropsychology; Development; Behavioral Inhibition; Attention; Working Memory; Early Brain Injury; HIV Infection in Children |
| Marc | Norman | UC San Diego | Neuro | Neuropsychology Norms; Stroke; Organ Transplantation; Brain Tumors; High Altitude Cerebral Edema |
| Sonya | Norman | UC San Diego | EP | Co-Occuring PSTD and Alcohol/Substance Use Disorders; Treatment Evaluation; Treatment Development; Guilt; Veterans |
| Barton | Palmer | UC San Diego | Neuro/EP* | Aging; Schizophrenia; PTSD; Loneliness; Positive Mental Health; Capacity; Decision Making |
| Matthew | Panizzon | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cognitive and Brain Aging; Dementia; Neuroendocrinology; Sex Differences; Genetic Factors |
| Barbara | Parry | UC San Diego | EP | Chronobiology of Depression; Sleep and Light Therapy; Melatonin; Women; Children; Adolescents; Premenstrual, Pregnancy/Postpartum, Menopausal, Mood Disorders |
| Kevin | Patrick | UC San Diego | BMed | Mobile Technology |
| Thomas | Patterson | UC San Diego | BMed | HIV; Sexually Transmitted Illness Risk; Drug Users; Sex Workers; International; Psychosis |
| William | Perry | UC San Diego | Neuro | Attention; Working Memory; Executive Dysfunction; Information Processing; Cross-species Studies; Liver Disease; HIV; Methamphetamine |
| Joseph | Price | SDSU | EP | Developmental Psychopathology; Social Behavior Problems; Child Maltreatment; Social Cognition; Social Behavior; Foster Care; Children |
| Edward | Riley | SDSU | Neuro | Prenatal Alcohol Exposure; Prenatal Substance Exposure; Children |
| Scott | Roesch | SDSU | BMed | Quantitative Psychology; Stress and Coping; Personality; Culture; Ethnicity |
| Thomas | Rutledge | UC San Diego | BMed | Cardiovascular Diseases; Chronic Pain; Obesity; Diabetes; Interventions; Veterans |
| Georgia | Sadler | UC San Diego | BMed | Cancer |
| David | Salmon | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cognitive Neuropsychology; Alzheimer’s Disease; Cross-cultural Studies of Dementia |
| Sanjaya | Saxena | UC San Diego | EP/Neuro | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Neurobiology; Treatment; Hoarding Disorder |
| Dawn | Schiehser | UC San Diego | Neuro | Neuropsychological Functioning; Neuroimaging; Cognitive Rehabilitation; Movement Disorders; Parkinson’s Disease; Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) |
| Marc | Schuckit | UC San Diego | EP | Psychopharmacology; Substance Abuse; Geriatric Psychiatry; Genetics; Psychiatric Diagnosis |
| Martin | Sereno | SDSU | Neuro | Neuroimaging; FMRI; Brain Mapping; Language; Scene Understanding; Linguistic Discourse |
| William | Sieber | UC San Diego | BMed | Mind-Body Medicine; Quality of Life; Interventions; Chronic Diseases; Primary Care |
| Alan | Simmons | UC San Diego | Neuro | MRI; Neuroimaging; Anxiety; PTSD |
| Andrea | Spadoni (Townsend) | UC San Deigo | Neuro | Neuroimaging; FMRI; PTSD; Alcohol Use Disorders; Comorbidities; Empirically Supported Treatment; Affective Disorders |
| Steven | Sparta | UC San Diego | EP/BMed | Law and Psychology; Ethics and Standards of Professional Practice; Child Abuse; Trauma; Pediatric/Child Clinical Psychology |
| Nicole | Stadnick | UC San Diego | EP | Implementation Science; Autism; Pediatrics; Mental Health Services; Health Policy; Community Engagement; Public Health; Health Equity; Global Health; Mixed Methods; Capacity Building; System Interventions; HIV Prevention and Intervention |
| Murray | Stein | UC San Diego | EP/BMed | Anxiety Disorders; Phobic Disorders; Social Phobia; PTSD; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Pharmacologic Interventions; Autonomic Nervous System; Neuroimaging; Epidemiology |
| Ariana | Stickel | SDSU | Neuro | Latinos; Cognitive Aging; Dementia; Alzheimer's Disease; Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors; Neuroimaging; Acculturation |
| Steffanie | Strathdee | UC San Diego | BMed | Injection Drug Use; HIV; Hepatis; Prevention; Barriers to Care |
| Erin | Sundermann | UC San Diego | Neuro | Alzheimer's; Aging; NeuroHIV; HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder; Sex Differences; Reproductive History; Women's Mental Health |
| Neal | Swerdlow | UC San Diego | EP | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Tourette Syndrome; Neuropharmacology; Limbic System; Basal Ganglia |
| Gregory | Talavera | SDSU | BMed | Sociocultural Factors; Chronic Disease Interventions; Health Disparities; Hispanic/Latino Health. |
| Susan | Tapert | UC San Diego | Neuro | Substance Use Disorders; Adolescents; Neuroimaging; Neuropsychological Assessment; Conduct Disorder; Risk Factors; Gender Differences; Cue Reactivity; Craving |
| Charles | Taylor | UC San Diego | EP | Anxiety Disorders; Depressive Disorders; Treatment Outcome Research; Social Relationship Functioning; Positive/Negative Valence; Interventions to Enhance Positive Emotions |
| Jennifer | Thomas | SDSU | Neuro | Behavioral Teratology; Neurotoxicology; Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse; Learning; Memory; Cognition |
| Jeanne | Townsend | UC San Diego | Neuro/EP | Autism Spectrum Disorders; Developmental Disorders; Event Related Potentials (ERPs); EEG; Eye Tracking; Attention; Arousal; Sensory Function; Motor Function |
| Doris | Trauner | UC San Diego | Neuro | Metabolic Disorders; Brain Injury; Children; Prosody; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Language; Visual Processing |
| Ryan | Trim | UC San Diego | EP | Substance Use Disorders; Lifespan; Family/Environmental Characteristics |
| Elizabeth | Twamley | UC San Diego | Neuro/EP | Severe Mental Illness; Traumatic Brain Injury; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Dementia; Compensatory Cognitive Training; Supported Employment; Homelessness; Cognitive Rehabilitation; PTSD |
| Feion | Villodas | SDSU | BMed | Health Disparities; African-Americans; Latinos; Acculturation, Cultural Competence, Community-based Participatory Research; Treatment Implementation |
| Miguel | Villodas | SDSU | EP | Externalizing Behavior Problems; Diversity; Multicultural Issues; Children; Adolescents; Evidence-Based Interventions; Child Maltreatment |
| Natasha | Wade | UC San Diego | Neuro | Cannabis; Adolescent Substance Use; Cannabis and Alcohol Co-Use; Neurocognition; Neuropsychology; Hair Toxicology; Secondhand Cannabis Smoke; Secondhand Smoke |
| Tamara | Wall | UC San Diego | EP | Substance Abuse; Protective Factors; Sociocultural Factors; Multicultural Issues; Behavioral Genetics; Psychopharmacology |
| V. Robin | Weersing | SDSU | EP/BMed | Anxiety; Depression; Intervention Development; Children; Adolescents |
| Cory R | Weissman | UC San Diego | BMed/EP | TMS; rTMS; TMS-EEG; Accelerated TMS; Theta Burst Stimulation; Suicidality; Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD); Psychedelics; Interventional Psychiatry |
| Kristen | Wells | SDSU | BMed | Cancer Disparities; Cancer Communication; Patient Navigation Interventions; Medication Adherence; Technology |
| Julie | Wetherell | UC San Diego | EP | Geropsychology; Anxiety; Depression; Intervention Development; Older Adults; Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction; Exercise |
| Christina | Wierenga | UC San Diego | Neuro/EP | Alzheimer’s Disease; Eating Disorders; Functional Neuroimaging; Language; Memory; Cognitive Control; Reward Processing; Interoception; Aging |
| Jillian Lee | Wiggins | SDSU | Neuro/EP | Socio-emotional Development; Brain Activation; Genetics; Social Factors; Children; Adolescents; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Depression; Anxiety; Irritability; Neuroimaging |
| May | Yeh | SDSU | EP | Mental Health Services; Children; Adolescents; Cultural Issues; Treatment Outcomes; Cultural Competence; Racial/Ethnic Disparities; School-based Services |
| Fadel | Zeidan | UC San Diego | BMed | Mindfulness; Neuroimaging; Pain; Health |
| Shu-Hong | Zhu | UC San Diego | BMed | Behavioral Intervention; Population Study of Health Behavior; Tobacco Use; Vaping; Marijuana Use |
| Sidney | Zisook | UC San Diego | EP | Grief; Bereavement; Affective Disorders; PTSD |
| Zvinka | Zlatar | UC San Diego | Neuro | Aging; Brain Plasticity; MRI; Perfusion; Physical Activity; Cardiorespiratory Fitness; Lifestyle Interventions; Older Adults; Hispanic Populations; Subjective Cognitive Decline; Depression |
