Bruce F. Chorpita
Bruce F. Chorpita is a professor of psychology and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the lead developer for the intensive component of PRIDE, a project designed to develop, test, and disseminate effective treatments and training model for lay counselors to address anxiety, depression, and anger problems in adolescents in India. He is the principal investigator for the Reaching Families multisite trial and the lead author of the MATCH-ADTC protocol. Previously, he held a faculty position with the department of psychology at the University of Hawaii, and he served as the clinical director of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division. His ongoing research is aimed at improving the effectiveness of mental health service systems for children through innovation in mental health treatment design, clinical decision-making, information-delivery models, and service system architecture. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Karina W. Davidson
Karina W. Davidson is senior vice president of research, dean of academic affairs, and head of a new center focused on behavioral and cardiovascular health research at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research at Northwell Health. She is also the endowed Donald and Barbara Zucker professor in health outcomes in the Department of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University/Northwell Health. Her research focuses on innovations in personalized trials to manage chronic disease and patient symptoms that incorporate patient preferences and values. She has identified important psychosocial risk factors for incident and recurrent cardiac events and mortality, and the physiological and behavioral mechanisms by which that risk is conferred. She has also conducted health care system research on providing better health care. She formed and is the past chair of the Evidence-Based Behavioral-Medicine committee, a task force charged by seven national and international societies with improving and implementing evidence-based principles within behavioral medicine. She has a Ph.D. in clinical health psychology from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Randall W. Engle
Randall Engle (NAS) is the director of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also professor of psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on cognition and brain science. His interests include working memory capacity and its relationship to the concept of attention control. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Psychological Association (fellow), American Psychological Society (fellow), the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Psychonomic Society, Memory Disorders Research Society, and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. He has a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from The Ohio State University.
Catherine A. Hartley
Catherine Hartley is an associate professor of psychology and neural science at New York University. Her research focuses on characterizing the changes in cognitive representations and computations that inform learning and decision-making across development, and how dynamic changes in brain circuits give rise to these processes. A goal of her research is to understand the costs and benefits associated with how individuals learn and make decisions at different developmental stages, as well as how specific learning and decision-making biases contribute to psychological vulnerability or resilience. She sits on the board of the Society for Neuroeconomics, the Social Affective Neuroscience Society, and the Flux Society, and is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She received her B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University, her Ph.D. in psychology from New York University, and conducted her postdoctoral training at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Mark A. Musen
Mark A. Musen (NAM) is a professor of biomedical informatics at Stanford University, where he is the director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He conducts research related to open science, data stewardship, intelligent systems, and biomedical decision support. His group developed Protégé, the world’s most widely used technology for building and managing terminologies and ontologies. He is principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology. He is a principal investigator of the Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval. He has chaired the Health Informatics and Modeling Topic Advisory Group for the World Health Organization (WHO)’s revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and directs the WHO Collaborating Center for Classification, Terminology, and Standards at Stanford University. He has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics, the Association of American Physicians, the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and the National Academy of Medicine. He is founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Ontology. He received his Ph.D. in medical information sciences at Stanford University.
Vimla L. Patel
Vimla Patel is a senior research scientist and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine. Previously, she was a professor of medicine and the director of Cognitive Science Center at McGill University. Her early research focused on scientific foundations for medical and health education, particularly in cognitive foundations of medical decision-making. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences), the American College of Medical Informatics, and the New York Academy of Medicine, and she is a recipient of the Swedish Woman of Science award. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and sits on the editorial boards of Intelligence-based Medicine and Advances in Health Science Education. She has a Ph.D. in educational and cognitive psychology from McGill University.
Frank Puga
Frank Puga is an assistant professor in the Department of Acute, Chronic and Continuing Care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He investigated functional networks of information processing and sensory gating using animal models and Pavlovian learning paradigms. This work provided the foundation for his interest in biobehavioral research methods to understand contextual factors that impact stress and learned behavior. His post-doctoral training focused on neuroendocrine processes underlying stress and learned behavior in animal models. His current work at UAB focuses on aging and mental health. He is nationally known for his work in depression and anxiety among dementia caregivers. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Carla Sharp
Carla Sharp is a professor of psychology and interim associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Houston (UH). She also directs the Developmental Psychopathology Lab at UH. Her main research focus is on social cognition as it relates to disorders of interpersonal relatedness in children and adolescents, with a special interest in borderline personality disorder. Her books include Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology, and the Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder in Children and Adolescents. She is currently focused on the metastructure of psychopathology to determine the cross-cutting value of social cognition in alternative models of personality pathology. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Cambridge.
Timothy J. Strauman
Timothy J. Strauman is a professor and former chair of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and also professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Duke University School of Medicine. His research interests focus on the psychological and neurobiological processes of self-regulation, conceptualized in terms of a cognitive/motivational perspective, as well as on the relation between self-regulation and affect and how such processes might contribute to psychopathology. His lab's clinically focused research includes the development and validation of a new self-regulation - based therapy for depression, self-system therapy, and the use of neuroimaging techniques to examine the mechanisms of action of treatments for depression. He is a former president of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a current member of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He has a Ph.D. in psychology from New York University.
Cui Tao
Cui Tao is the Dr. Doris L. Ross professor of biomedical informatics and director of the Center for Biomedical Semantics and Data Intelligence at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Her background is in clinical informatics and computer science, and her research interests include ontologies, standard terminologies, semantic web, information extraction and integration, machine learning as well as applying these technologies to clinical and translational studies. She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. She has Ph.D. in computer science from Brigham Young University.
James F. Woodward
James F. Woodward is a distinguished professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he was the J.O. and Juliette Koepfli professor of humanities at the California Institute of Technology and former president of the Philosophy of Science Association. His research covers a number of different areas, including theories of causation, explanation and inductive inference in general philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of social science. His interests in psychology include the empirical psychology of causal learning and judgment; in this connection he is a participant in a multidisciplinary collaboration which explores the relation between formal theories of causal inference and the inferences adults and children actually make. He also maintains an interest in moral psychology and the empirical study of human behavior in morally significant situations. He has Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
