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

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

    Research Interests
    • Psychiatry
    • Neuropsychology
    • Executive Function
    • HIV
  • 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
    • Substance-Related Disorders
    • Treatment Outcome
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

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

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

    Research Interests
    • Substance Abuse Detection
    • Taiwan
    • Risk-Taking
    • Russia
    • Malaysia
    • Iran
    • Indonesia
    • Psychiatry
    • Opioid-Related Disorders
    • Amphetamine-Related Disorders
    • China
  • 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
    • Community Mental Health Services
    • Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
    • Implementation Science
    • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
    • Psychology, Social
    • Schools
  • Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry

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