Clinical Faculty

• Core Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  	Kristin Bernard Associate Professor, Clinical Director of the Master's Program	Child maltreatment; Neurobiological consequences of early life adversity; Parent-child relationships; Early parenting interventions; Psychobiology of parenting and attachment.	kristin.bernard@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-226 Phone: 631-632-7576
  	Joanne Davila Department Chair Professor, Clinical	Romantic competence among youth and emerging adults; Teaching healthy relationship skills; Bisexual+ identity and well-being; LGBTQ+ relationships and mental health; Mental health and relationship functioning.	joanne.davila@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-313 Phone: (631) 632-7826
  	Nicholas Eaton Associate Professor, Clinical Director of Clinical Training	Classification and structure of psychopathology, personality, and other constructs; sexual orientation, gender diversity, and LGBT issues; quantitative methods and psychometrics; human sexuality; individual/group differences and mental health.	nicholas.eaton@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-324 Phone: (631) 632-7634
  	Daniel Klein Distinguished Professor, Clinical	Mood disorders in youth and adults; temperament and personality development.	daniel.klein@stonybrook.edu Psychology A-338 Phone: (631) 632-7859
  	Briana  Last IDEA Fellow Lecturer	The social determinants of mental health; mental health services and policy research; implementation science; clinical decision-making; mental health workforce development; health equity; mixed methods; and community-based participatory research.	Briana.last@stonybrook.edu Psychology B, Room 356 Phone: (631) 632-7845
  	Carl W. Lejuez Professor, Clinical	Intersection of basic science and treatment development across addiction, depression, and personality disorders.	carl.lejuez@stonybrook.edu
  	Matthew Lerner Associate Professor, Clinical	Models of social competence & deficits in youth; social competency interventions for developmental disorders (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorders & Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder); therapeutic process variables (mediators and moderators of outcomes); peer relations and their impact on developmental psychopathology.	matthew.lerner@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-354 Phone: (631) 632-7660
  	Aprajita Mohanty Associate Professor, Clinical Diversity Director	Psychological and neural mechanisms involved in emotion, attention and their interaction. The role of emotion-attention mechanisms in normal function and anxiety. Impact of emotion on decision making in normal function and psychopathology.	aprajita.mohanty@stonybrook.edu Psychology A-340 Phone: (631)632-7872
  	Brady Nelson Associate Professor, Clinical	Affective neuroscience and psychophysiology; Cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms of anxiety disorders and depression; Development of mechanisms across childhood and adolescence; Biomarkers of risk for psychopathology	brady.nelson@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-420 Phone (631) 632-7697
  	Daniel O'Leary Distinguished Professor, Clinical	Etiology, prevention, and treatment of psychological and physical aggression in intimate relationships; multivariate models (biological, psychological, and social) of intimate partner aggression; the bidirectional role of marital problems and depression; marital and dyad based treatments for clinical depression; prevalence and correlates of intense love.	k.d.oleary@stonybrook.edu Psychology A-110 Phone: (631) 632-7850
  	Jessica Schleider Assistant Professor, Clinical	Prevention and treatment of youth anxiety and depression; Design and development of brief, scalable interventions for youth mental health problems, including technology-mediated therapies (e.g., online and virtual reality programs); Single-session intervention; Family processes and youth mental health; Parent-directed intervention; Mechanisms of change in youth mental health treatment; Clinical child psychology and intervention science.	jessica.schleider@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-340 Phone: (631) 632-4131
  	Dina Vivian Clinical Professor, Clinical	Couple discord, violence in intimate relationships and the treatment of chronic depression.	dina.vivian@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-440 Phone: (631) 632-7848

• Research Faculty

  Faculty	Bio	Interests	Contact
  	Genna Hymowitz Research Assistant Professor, Clinical	Early adversity, cognitive biases, psychological distress, and health behaviors related to obesity and disordered eating; multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions for obesity and disordered eating; psychological symptomatology and medical comorbidity.	genna.hymowitz@stonybrook.edu Psychology B-469

• Emeritus/Emerita Faculty

  Tom D'Zurilla

  Edward Katkin

  Susan O'Leary