Rani A Hoff MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); Associate Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program; Director, Northeast Program Evaluation Center; Director, Evaluation Division, National Center for PTSD
Departments & Organizations

School of Public Health
NIMH Research Training Program in Childhood-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Psychiatry: Mental Health Services Research | Women's Health Research at Yale | Division of Women's Behavioral Health Research
Research Interests
Female veterans; Gambling disorders; Program Evaluation; Coping behaviors; Problematic Gaming; PTSD; pain and mental disorders; suicide prevention more...
Education
- M.P.H., Yale University, 1991
- Ph.D., Yale University, 1994
Selected Publications
- Desai RA, Krishnan-Sarin S, Cavallo D, Potenza MN.Video game playing in high school students: health correlates, gender differences and problematic gaming. Pediatrics. 2010 Nov 15. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:21078729
- Desai RA, Manley MM, Desai MM, Potenza MN. Gender differences in the association between body mass index and psychopathology. CNS Spectr. 2009 Jul;14(7):372-83. PMID:19773713
- Desai RA, Potenza MN. Problem and pathological gambling in patients with schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. E-Pub ahead of print, June 16, 2009.


