Core Faculty

Dr. John Gunstad - The neuropsychology of chronic disease, with a particular interest in cardiovascular disease and obesity.

Dr. Mary Himmelstein - Weight stigma; masculinity; impacts of intersectional identities on stress and coping in response to social stigma (weight stigma) and gender norms (masculinity).

Dr. Joel Hughes - The role of psychological and social factors in cardiovascular health and disease.

Dr. William Lechner - The effects of neurocognitive deficits and psychopathology in addiction.

Dr. Amy Sato - Child-health psychology; Obesity in children and adolescents, including the role of stress and the impact of family-level influences on the development and treatment of pediatric obesity.

Dr. Mary Beth Spitznagel - Clinical neuropsychology, caregiver burden, and the cognitive impact of obesity, diet, and exercise.

Dr. Jennifer Taber - Effective interventions and health communications to increase health behavior performance; behavioral and psychosocial aspects of genetic and genomic testing; risk perceptions and risk communications.

Dr. John Updegraff - Health communication and health behavior; applications of social psychological theory to health behavior.

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