Congratulations to CHP’s Emily Matusz, selected for the 2023-2024 Stephanie Nicole Ross Foundation’s annual scholarship. Emily is entering her third year of the Clinical and Health Psychology Ph.D. program with a specialization in Neuropsychology at the University of Florida. Broadly, Emily’s research focuses on the intersection among biomarkers,…
Christian McLaren, B.S., a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida College of Health and Health Professions, has received the prestigious 2023 Cluff Aging Research Award in recognition of his outstanding scholarly contributions in the field of aging. The…
Congratulations to Drs. Kathryn Ross, Jared Tanner and Sarah Westen. Each were recently recognized by Dean Virnig for their outstanding teaching efforts during the spring 2023 semester based on mean course evaluations of 4.8 or higher. Excellent instruction is essential to our programs, college, and university. Their hard work,…
Championship Team On Saturday May 20, 2023, these cast-offs by the Child area joined 4 non-child area players to bring home the title in an extra innings 8-7 thriller. It was only fitting that MVP Catherine Tocci scored the winning run. Dr. Gabrielli was a defensive gem at shortstop. Ryan…
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Allison Holgerson has agreed to serve as our new Director of Clinical Training. Allison has been with the Department since 2018 and is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Health Psychology. Her primary clinical practice has been collaborating…
Congratulations to Clinical and Health Psychology’s Assistant Professor, Joe Gullett, PhD, who has received a five-year K23 research career development grant from the National Institute on Aging to support a new AI study. As part of UF’s artificial intelligence initiative, the study focuses on patients with a diagnosis of…
Congratulations to Natalie Koskella-Staples, who has been selected as the 2023 PHHP Doctoral Level Dean’s Scholar. This is one of the most prestigious honors the College of Public Health and Health Professions gives as recognition of exceptional students’ accomplishments. The award will be presented at the PHHP Individual Recognition Ceremony…
Joshua Owens, a fourth-year Neuropsychology student, has received two competitive travel awards. At the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimers Disease summer data workshop, Joshua will participate in intensive analytic training to use secondary data sources for supplementary publications and grant applications in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias…
Many of our faculty, graduate students, interns and post-docs attended the Society for Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference in Chicago on March 30th – April 1st. Congratulations to all the trainees for their numerous presentations at the conference! Notably, we would like to recognize the following CHP trainees who won awards…
Congratulations to Erin Corcoran, MS, a member of the Youth Risk and Resilience Lab within the Clinical and Health Psychology Department, who has been selected to receive the Routh Dissertation Award by the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. This award provides support for student research that “shows promise…
