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Wendy Auslander
Professor of Social Work
The focus of Wendy Auslander's work is health care/health behaviors, evaluation of interventions, AIDS prevention among teenagers, minority health and health promotion, family functioning, and chronic illness.
Expertise: AIDS prevention, community health, diabetes, evaluation of interventions, family, health behaviors, health care
Media assistance: (314) 935-5251 / jessica_martin@wustl.edu
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Deanna Barch
Associate Professor of Psychology in Arts & Sciences
Barch studies cognitive and language deficits in disorders such as schizophrenia, and the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to such deficits. Her research includes behavioral, pharmacological, and neuroimaging studies with normal and clinical populations. One line of research examines discourse-level ...
Expertise: cognitive and language deficits, language production, dopamine, neurobiological mechanisms, neuroimaging, prefrontal cortex and modulatory neurotransmitters, schizophrenia, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-8729
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Linda Cottler
Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry
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Linda Cottler, Ph.D., investigates the epidemiology of many psychiatric disorders including gambling, drug use -- particularly use of so-called "club" drugs such as ecstasy -- and high risk sexual behavior among drug users.
Expertise: HIV, club drugs, compulsive gambling, high risk behaviors, needle exchange programs, peer education, safe sex
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu
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John Csernansky
Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry
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John G. Csernansky, M.D. uses sophisticed imaging techniques to study changes in the brains of patients with schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses.
Expertise: Brain imaging studies of mental illness
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu
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Renee Cunningham-Williams
visiting associate professor of social work
Cunningham-Williams' expertise centers on the comorbidity of mental health disorders, particularly those relating to behavioral addictions, risk taking, and antisocial behaviors.
Expertise: gambling addiction, substance abuse, risk taking, antisocial behaviors, crisis intervention
Direct contact: (314) 935-4563
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williamsr@wustl.edu
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Tonya Edmond
Associate Professor of Social Work
Tonya Edmond's research and teaching interests include violence against women and practice effectiveness. Her current projects involve examining the theoretical and intervention preferences of domestic violence and sexual assault service providers, the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ...
Expertise: violence against women, sexual assault, domestic abuse, trauma, practice effectiveness, women's studies, direct pratice
Direct contact: (314) 935-8131
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tee1@gwbmail.wustl.edu
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Clifton Emery
Assistant Professor
Clif Emery's is available to speak about domestic violence and its effects on children, quantitative methods and social theory. Among his current projects are secondary data analysis of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods data and research on domestic violence in South Korea. ...
Expertise: Effects of domestic violence on children, deviance, trauma, causes of domestic violence
Direct contact: 314-935-7954
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cemery@wustl.edu
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Alan Glass
Director of Student Health and Counseling
Dr. Glass joined the staff of Student Health and Counseling in January, 2004. A graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, he completed a pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He practiced emergency medicine for several years before entering the field of college heath. ...
Expertise: student health, men's health, sexual health, leadership education, mental health
Direct contact: (314) 935-9626
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alan_glass@aismail.wustl.edu
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Randy Larsen
William R. Stuckenberg Professor of Human Values and Moral Development
Larsen conducts research on emotion, primarily in terms of differences between people. Topics studied include mood variability, jealousy, attraction, depression, and strategies for the self-management of self-esteem and emotion. Methods of investigation have included psychophysiological techniques ...
Expertise: emotions, happiness, mood, circadian, personality
Direct contact: (314) 935-8560
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rlarsen@artsci.wustl.edu
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Monica Matthieu
Research Assistant Professor
Matthieu's expertise centers on mental health services. She is available to discuss suicide prevention, mental health in the aftermath of disasters, the mental health impact of trauma as well as the mental health of veterans. Her current research focuses on provider and organizational change required ...
Expertise: mental health services, trauma, veterans, suicide prevention and disaster
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Direct contact: 314-935-7516
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mmatthieu@wustl.edu
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Kathleen McDermott
Associate Professor of Psychology and Radiology
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McDermott is the director of the Memory and Cognition Laboratory. She investigates the mechanisms underlying memory formation and memory retrieval. Her research uses both behavioral (traditional psychological) and functional neuroimaging (specifically, fMRI) techniques. Ongoing projects include explorations ...
Expertise: memory, memory retrieval, memory formation, fMRI, false memories, neuroimaging
Direct contact: (314) 935-8743
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Kathleen_McDermott@wustl.edu
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Nancy Morrow-Howell
Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work
Nancy Morrow-Howell studies many issues of concern to the elderly and their families, including adequacy of care for the dependent elderly, community care plans for the elderly, and use of mental health services. She is studying the health and mental health services needed and used by older adults ...
Expertise: elder care, gerontology, productive aging, depression
Direct contact: (314) 935-6762
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morrow-howell@wustl.edu
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Juan Peña
Assistant professor
Juan Peña's research interests include suicide prevention, HIV prevention, adolescence, Latinos, and acculturation.
Expertise: Suicide prevention, HIV prevention, adolescence, Latinos, acculturation
Direct contact: 314-935-9636
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jpena@wustl.edu
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Enola Proctor
Frank J. Bruno Professor of Social Work Research
Enola K. Proctor's research interests center on mental health and health service delivery, post-acute health and mental health community care, development of knowledge to guide the delivery, and evaluation of clinical social work.
Expertise: clinical social work evaluation, mental health and health service delivery, post-acute health and mental community care
Direct contact: (314) 935-6660
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EKP@WUSTL.EDU
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Ramesh Raghavan
Assistant professor of Social Work
Ramesh Raghavan's clinical, policy and administrative expertise in public health and psychiatry fuel his research interests in mental health services and policies for children in the child welfare system. Prior to joining the faculty at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the School of ...
Expertise: public health, mental health services, children in the child welfare system, health policy, Medicaid
Direct contact: 314-935-4469
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raghavan@wustl.edu
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Arlene Stiffman
Barbara A. Bailey Professor of Social Work
Arlene Stiffman has focused her academic career on critical issues in child and adolescent mental health, high-risk behaviors, and services. As associate director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research (CMHSR), she has been instrumental in creating and developing the research and training ...
Expertise: child and adolescent mental health, fostercare, high-risk behaviors and mental health services, risk behaviors
Direct contact: (314) 935-6685
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gwbmail.wustl.eduARSTIFF@WUSTL.EDU
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Martha Storandt
Professor of Psychology
Storandt's research deals with aging. A major goal is understanding the distinction between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease, especially the very early stages of the disease, and how each affects cognitive function. Most of her research involves administering standard and experimental psychometric ...
Expertise: aging, Alzheimer's disease
Direct contact: (314) 935-6508
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mstorand@artsci.wustl.edu
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Luis Zayas
Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work
Luis Zayas' primary interests are in clinical practice with adolescents and families and in training clinical practitioners. His clinical experience spans 25 years of working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in community mental health, psychiatric clinics, pediatric rehabilitation, ...
Expertise: adolescent mental health, maternal mental health in pregnancy, parent-child relations, cross-cultural factors in child-rearing behavior, family functioning, psychiatric diagnosis, alcohol use by Latinos
Direct contact: (314) 935-9448
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lzayas@WUSTL.EDU
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