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Superior Accomplishment Awards program honors 3 CHP employees

Eleven College of Public Health and Health Professions employees have been named UF Superior Accomplishment award winners in the Health Science Center division. Three of the eleven are from our Clinical and Health Psychology department! They will be honored at an upcoming virtual event. The award program…

Identifying Factors that Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Maltreated Children within a Developmental Psychopathology Framework

Please join Dr. Michelle Desir on Tuesday, February 23rd at 1:00 pm for her faculty candidate seminar. Dr. Desir is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center within the Department of Pediatrics, she has a background in Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Developmental Psychopathology with…

Gabriel Cartagena Earns APA/APAGS Distinguished Graduate Student 2021 Award

Gabriel Cartagena, MS, has earned the 2021 American Psychological Association/American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology Award. This is a national award recognizing graduate students dedicated to improving community health and combating health disparities by going above and beyond to meet patient…

“The Turing Way: Reproducible, Inclusive and Collaborative Science”

Join us Friday Feb 12th at 9:00 AM for a conversation with  Dr. Kirstie Whitaker, Allan Turing Institute, London.  She is lead developer of  The Turing Way, an openly developed educational resource to enable more reproducible data science at the Allan Turing Institute, London. Dr. Whitaker is a passionate…

Doctoral Student, Francesca Lopez, receives diversity F31 from NIH/NIA

Francesca Lopez, MS has received funding for an NIH F31 Kirschstein Individual Research Fellowship Diversity award for a project entitled “Cognitive Correlates of Mitochondrial Function in Older Adults.” Funded by the National Institute on Aging, her study will examine phosphorous (31P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) markers of brain energy metabolism…

Colloquium Series: Hoarding Disorder: Understanding the Etiology

December 4, 2020; 12:00 -1:00 pm This talk will focus on the cognitive behavioral model of hoarding disorder, and in particular the vulnerabilities, information processing deficits, and object attachments that are hypothesized to be important etiological factors. Zoom Meeting: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/99175231583?pwd=Z2t4cFVqeUJtcGlxem5wdUxkR3JaZz09 Meeting ID: 991 7523 1583 –…

INS Major Awards for 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Price and to our alumnus, Dr. Laura Zahodne for receiving awards from the International Neuropsychological Society (INS)!…

Congratulations Erin!

Erin Ferguson has been awarded the Donald D. Price Memorial Publication Award by the UF Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health for her excellent work! The goal of this review, published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, was to propose a testable…

The Role for Psychology in a Redesigned Mental Health System

Dr. Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD. is the Chief Strategy Officer for Well Being Trust, a national foundation committed to advancing the mental, social and spiritual health of the nation. A clinical psychologist by training, he has worked to advance mental health throughout his career. Dr. Miller is also an Adjunct Professor…