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Kate Humphreys, M.A., Ed.M.

President

Kate Humphreys is a third year graduate student at UCLA in the clinical psychology program. Her research and clinical interests center on the downstream effects of stress on problematic behavior, including ADHD and externalizing problems. She is a proponent of a developmental psychopathology framework within clinical psychology. Prior to starting a doctoral program, Kate worked at the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at the VA Boston Healthcare System. She received an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Risk and Prevention and a B.S. in Cognitive Studies and Child Development at Vanderbilt University. Kate also leads the student group Psychology in Action (http://psychologyinaction.org), a group of graduate students who aim to communicate psychological knowledge to interested parties outside of academia. As the current president of Section 10, she is thrilled to be working with such a talented and passionate team of leaders. Her goals include improving the benefits Section 10 members gain from their experience, by increased communication, coordination with senior members of Division 12, and providing informative and relevant talks at the 2011 APA conference.

 

Chris Conway

President-Elect

Chris is a fourth-year graduate student in the UCLA Clinical Psychology program. He has been intensively trained in dialectical behavior therapy and has experience with numerous evidence-based cognitive and behavioral treatments. His primary clinical interests are treatments for severe mental illness and anxiety disorders. Working at UCLA with Dr. Connie Hammen, Chris researches the origins of comorbidity among common forms of psychopathology with an eye toward informing revisions to future editions of the DSM. He has also conducted studies investigating the joint contributions of genetic and environmental risk factors in the development of mood disorders and the psychometric properties of borderline personality disorder criteria in community-dwelling and clinical populations.

 

Brian J. Hall, M.A.

Representative and Liaison for APA Committee
on Early Career Professionals

Research Study Coordinator, Rush Medical College
Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Kent State University

Research Activities
Mr. Hall studies the risk and protective factors associated with psychiatric morbidity following terrorism exposure. Mr. Hall is particularly interested in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression. Mr. Hall has focused on examining posttraumatic growth (finding benefits amidst tragedy) and its relationship to PTSD and factors that predict psychological resiliency. Mr. Hall is also interested in statistical and measurement topics such as structural equation modeling and factorial invariance between ethnic groups. Mr. Hall is currently a Research Study Coordinator on an NIH funded project examining risk and protective factors following terrorism exposure in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority.

Service
Mr. Hall currently serves as the Section 10 (Graduate Students and Early Career Psychologists) Representative to the Division 12, Society of Clinical Psychology, Board of Directors (voting board member). He is also the Chair of the Convention Committee of the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students.

 

Yuliana Gallegos

Secretary

Yuliana’s research interests focus on learning effective treatment options for people suffering from psychopathology. Particularly, focusing on neuropsychological predictors of functioning in schizophrenia. She is also interested in collaborating in translation of assessment tools to the Spanish language. After graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2005, Yuliana had been working with Eric Granholm, Ph.D., becoming senior research assistant in his lab. She worked on studies which focus on functional improvement of people diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders through the use of Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training. This year, Yuliana is attending the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and is working as a Psychology Extern with Nebraska Advocacy Services, Inc. (NAS) where they provide legal representation to protect legal and human rights of people with disabilities. Her primary responsibilities are collaborating with Jean Campbell, PhD, as a Research Coordinator and managing the Consumer Action Research Team (CART) Project.

 

Victoria E. Cosgrove, Ph.D.

Treasurer

Dr. Victoria E. Cosgrove is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Instructor (Affiliated) in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with the Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Clinic and Research Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Bipolar Disorder Research Program at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She hails from the East Coast and graduated in 1994 with a BA in Psychology from Yale University. Before attending graduate school, she was a Research Assistant in Boston and New York City for NIMH-funded projects investigating psychopharmacological and psychosocial treatments for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. She graduated in 2009 from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a PhD in Clinical Psychology and an Interdisciplinary Certificate from the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, completing her Predoctoral Internship at the VA Palo Alto.

Dr. Cosgrove is currently pursuing a line of research investigating roles for life and family stress as well as inflammatory and neurotrophic pathways in the etiology and development of bipolar disorder. In her spare time, she enjoys running with her beloved spaniel, Trinidad, on rolling, mid-peninsula trails. As Treasurer of Section 10, she is excited to represent the financial interests of early career members of Division 12.

 

Jonathan Savant

Communications Chair

Jonathan Savant graduated from the University of Florida in 2007, receiving his B.S. in Psychology with a music minor.  While in Florida, he worked in various research labs, separately examining cognitive (i.e., psychological correlates of sleep disorders in community dwelling older adults) and developmental (i.e., aggressive behaviors in elementary school age children) psychological phenomena.  Jonathan currently resides in New Haven, CT and is a research assistant working on several Yale University federally funded research projects.  Several of the studies investigate the efficacy of buprenorphine combined with psychotherapies in the treatment of opiate addiction, while others are involved in the development of a manual for a CBT-based intervention addressing both chronic pain and substance abuse in opiate addicted clientele.  His interest in the role of adjunctive music therapy treatments within different populations has led him to develop a music group for methadone maintained clients which he currently leads.

 

Arianna Aldridge, M.S.

Past President

Arianna Aldridge  received her B.S. from Santa Clara University and M.S. in Psychology from San Diego State University. She is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at SDSU/UCSD.  Her research interests focus on stress, coping, and related psychological and physical health outcomes in minority adolescents and adults.  She is also interested in examining how individuals with cancer or chronic illness cope with stress.  At the UCSD Moores Cancer Center she is involved in validating psychological health measures for minority populations.  Ultimately, she would like to be instrumental in developing intervention programs for individuals with chronic illness to maximize their adjustment and improve quality of life. Her clinical interests are focused on improving individuals’ adaptive coping in response to psychological and physical health sequelae. Over the past four years she has served the Executive Student Council for the Western Psychological Association as Director of Marketing and is serving her second year as Chair. As the current president-elect of Section 10 she is excited to work with members, learn more about leadership within the division and section, and create an exceptional experience for Section 10 members attending the APA conference in 2009-2011. 

 

Christopher J. Cutter, Ph.D.

Past President

Christopher J. Cutter, Ph.D. is an Associate Research Scientist within the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Cutter’s scholarly work focuses on psychotherapy treatment outcome associated with substance abuse populations. He examines the transfer of psychosocial treatments associated with the transfer of buprenorphine, from specialized settings to office-based, primary care and HIV specialty settings. He completed a clinical psychology intern at McLean Hospital and a clinical fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cutter was subsequently a clinical postdoctoral psychology fellow at the Division of Substance Abuse at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Cutter is a clinician researcher whose focus is on the evidence-based therapeutic interventions associated with substance use and abuse. He serves as a research supervisor for the Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, including the section of General Medicine (Primary Care), and Division of Substance Abuse. He precepts psychology interns and psychiatry residents in the Yale School of Medicine, Division of Substance Abuse Addiction Fellowship Program on the application of cognitive-behavioral therapeutic approaches to chronic pain and opiate dependence. Dr. Cutter currently serves as the component director of the Medical Research Unit (MRU) and Clinic Director of the Pain Treatment Services at the APT Foundation.

 

George Slavich, Ph.D.

Past President and Co-Founder

George Slavich, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and Society in Science: Branco Weiss Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. He is also a Research Scientist in the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, where he directs the Life Stress Assessment Core Laboratory. Dr. Slavich completed undergraduate and graduate coursework in psychology and communication at Stanford University, and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. Before coming to UCLA, he was a clinical psychology intern at McLean Hospital, a clinical fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Psychology at UCSF, and a NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA. In addition to his research, which examines why and how social experiences affect health, Dr. Slavich has been a long-time champion of student interests. He founded the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference in 2001 and the Western Psychological Association Student Council in 2002, and co-founded the Society of Clinical Psychology's Section on Graduate Student and Early Career Psychologists in 2006.

 

Sean Sullivan, Psy.D.

Past President and Co-Founder

Sean Sullivan is a California based psychologist and author of a forthcoming book titled, The Mind Master. Dr. Sullivan received his A.B. from Harvard University and his doctorate from Florida School of Professional Psychology. He completed a Residency in Clinical Psychology at University of Texas Health Sciences Center and Post-Doctoral training at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Sullivan served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Clinical Psychology and currently serves as Chief of Psychology for Today College Tour. His innovative work in the area of campus tragedy prevention was recognized by ESPN. He currently writes, speaks and facilitates events for high school and college students on behalf of ESPN’s “ESPN RISE” brand.