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CHP Students win Outstanding Poster Award at NCPP

Congratulations to CHP students Sarah Westen and Bridget Armstrong who won an “Outstanding Poster Award” at the National Conference in Pediatric Psychology held this past week in New Orleans, LA. Title: The role of overweight perception and depressive symptoms in child and adolescent unhealthy weight control behaviors: A serial mediation…

Jason Gravano, M.S., awarded NRSA Fellowship

Jason Gravano is a third year graduate student in CHP, studying neuropsychology under the mentorship of Dr. William Perlstein.  Jason’s National Research Service Award (NRSA) project proposal entitled “Dissociating mTBI and PTSD brain activity at rest,” has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Larry Keen II, Ph.D., awarded NIDA Diversity Supplement

Larry Keen II, Ph.D., was chosen for the National Institute of Drug Abuse Diversity Supplement to fund his Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. This training award is mentored by Dr. William Latimer, who is the principal investigator on the parent R01, Four-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial…

Michael Perri, Ph.D., ABPP, receives Distinguished Research Mentor Award

Michael G. Perri, PhD, ABPP, Clinical and Health Psychology professor and dean of the College of Public Health and Health Professions, was honored at the 34th Annual Society of Behavioral Medicine Meeting in San Francisco with the Distinguished Research Mentor Achievement Award. The Society of Behavioral Medicine Distinguished Research Mentor…

CHP students receive abstract awards at SBM Annual Meeting

CHP students Kristen Medina, Samantha Minski, and Danielle Lespinasse are to receive the Society of Behavioral Medicine Obesity and Eating Disorders SIG Best Graduate Student Research Abstract Awards at the 34th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine held in San Francisco, CA on March 21,…

Nicole Ennis Whitehead, Ph.D., Columbia University HISTP Fellow

Nicole Ennis Whitehead, Ph.D., is one of four junior faculty members chosen from a nationwide search to be a Columbia University HIV Intervention Science Training Program fellow. HISTP is an NIMH-funded two-year multidisciplinary training program that seeks to develop and facilitate the growth of scientist from underrepresented groups conducting HIV-related…

Kelsey Thomas, M.S., recipient of the Leighton E. Cluff Aging Research Award

Kelsey Thomas, M.S., is a third-year graduate student in CHP.  Her research and training is primarily focused in the area of neuropsychology and is training under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Marsiske.  Kelsey is one of this year’s graduate student winners of the Leighton E. Cluff Aging Research Award.  The…