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Research & Scholarship

There are over 88 full time faculty psychologists within the Department of Psychiatry. These faculty members are leaders in the field and in their areas of specialty, as evidenced by their record of grants, publications, awards, and roles in professional organizations and government-sponsored boards and committees. In addition to their leadership responsibilities in clinical care and education, the faculty lead active research programs and have established a number of research centers at the medical school in the areas of addiction, psychotherapy development, interdisciplinary stress research, women’s health, recovery from mental illness, prevention and consultation, and on eating and weight disorders.

Faculty Research and Scholarship

  • Harold W. Jockers Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs, OAPD

    Research Interests
    • Ill-Housed Persons
    • Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
    • Substance Abuse Detection
    • Treatment Outcome
    • Mental Disorders
    • Personality
    • Personality Disorders
    • Psychiatry
    • Psychiatry and Psychology
    • Psychotherapy
  • Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center; Director of Pain Treatment Services, APT Foundation; Director of Research, APT Foundation

    Research Interests
    • Culture
    • Chronic Pain
    • Opioid-Related Disorders
    • Psychiatry and Psychology
    • Psychotherapy
    • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Clinical Neuropsychology Consultation Clinic; Director, Predoctoral Training in Psychology Service

    Research Interests
    • HIV
    • Psychiatry
    • Neuropsychology
    • Executive Function
  • Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry; Director, MRRC Neurometabolism Research Laboratory

    Research Interests
    • Psychiatry
    • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
    • Central Nervous System
    • Glutamates
    • Glutamine
  • Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry; VA RR&D Senior Research Career Scientist

    Research Interests
    • Neuropsychology
    • Schizophrenia
    • Psychiatry
    • Veterans
  • Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Research Health Scientist, Research, Department of Veterans Affairs

    Research Interests
    • Chronic Pain
    • Models, Statistical
    • Mental Health
    • Opioid-Related Disorders
    • Treatment Outcome
    • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Alcohol Drinking
    • Alcoholism
    • Mental Health
    • Mobile Applications
    • Health Policy
    • Smoking
    • Smoking Cessation
    • Smoking Prevention
    • Technology
    • Tobacco
    • Tobacco Products
    • Tobacco Use
    • Tobacco Use Cessation
    • Tobacco Use Disorder
    • Substance-Related Disorders
    • Psychiatry and Psychology
  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Adolescent Psychiatry
    • Behavioral Medicine
    • Marijuana Smoking
    • Smoking Cessation
    • Psychiatry
    • Substance Abuse Detection
    • Tobacco Use Cessation
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Malaysia
    • Iran
    • Indonesia
    • Psychiatry
    • Opioid-Related Disorders
    • China
    • Amphetamine-Related Disorders
    • Substance Abuse Detection
    • Taiwan
    • Russia
    • Risk-Taking
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Child and Adolescent Service, West Haven Mental Health Clinic, Psychiatry; Co-Director, West Haven Mental Health Clinic, Psychiatry

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Schools
    • Psychology, Social
    • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
    • Community Mental Health Services
    • Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
    • Implementation Science
  • Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Geriatrics
    • Health Plan Implementation
    • Information Dissemination
    • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
    • Mental Health
    • Multiple Trauma