Ph.D in Clinical Psychology

Faculty

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The Ph.D. faculty is comprised of talented and distinguished psychologists with a wide range of clinical and research specialties. As a whole, the faculty members support evidence-based approaches to practice and they are actively involved in clinical research. Thirteen core faculty--those primarily based at PAU-- serve as the backbone of the Ph.D. Program running the day to day operations of the program. In addition, nine associated faculty spend more than 20% of their time teaching and supervising research at PGSP. Many of these faculty share appointments with the Palo Alto VA and bring important insights from their work in this setting. A group of adjunct faculty members provides teaching and clinical supervision in areas that are not represented by core or associated faculty. In order to ensure an even greater breadth of research knowledge and expertise, PAU has contracted with a group of professors from the Department of Psychology at Stanford University to provide focused consultation to our dissertation students.

Core Program Faculty

  • Alinne Barrera, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Working with immigrant, Spanish-speaking individuals with mood disorders. Designing and testing depression programs for underserved populations.
  • Leonard Beckum, Ph.D., Professor
  • Larry E. Beutler, Ph.D., Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Psychotherapy and mass trauma
  • Bruce Bongar, Ph.D., ABPP, FAPM, Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Suicide and Self Destructive Behaviors, Clinical and Legal Standards of Care, Emergency and Disaster Psychology, and the Psychology of Suicide Terrorism.
  • Joyce Chu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Amanda Fanniff, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Developmental considerations in the assessment and treatment of juvenile offenders
  • Nigel Field, Ph.D., Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Loss, Trauma and Other Stressful Life Events
  • Robert D. Friedberg, Ph.D., ABPP, Associate Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Cognitive behavioral therapy with children, adolescents, and families experiencing anxiety, stress, and performance issues
  • William Froming, Ph.D., Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Public and Private Aspects of the Self; The Development of Self-Regulation
  • Peter Goldblum, Ph.D., Professor, Director of CLEAR, Director of LGBTQ Program
    Areas of Emphasis: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, Psychotherapy, Bullying, Suicide, HIV and Work
  • Rowena Gomez, Ph.D., Associate Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Aging, Neurospychology, and Depression
  • Roger L. Greene, PhD | Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Taxonicity of MMPI-2 Codetypes, Assessment of Deception
  • Amie Haas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Shelley Hannah Kay Howell, Ph.D., J.D., Assistant Professor, Palo Alto University, and Associate Director of Clinical Training for the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium
    Areas of Emphasis: Neuropsychological assessment of older adults, including early detection of dementia.
  • Sandy Macias, Ph.D., Assistant Clinic Director, Assistant Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Couples and Children
  • Louis Moffett, Ph.D., Professor
  • Wendy Packman, J.D., Ph.D., Professor and Director: Joint J.D. - Ph.D. Program in Psychology and Law
    Areas of Emphasis: Pediatric Psychology and Psychology Law
  • Rebekka Palmer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Addiction, substance use and high-risk populations.
  • Sita G. Patel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Immigrant mental health
  • Robert Reiser, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Clinic Director
    Areas of Emphasis: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Robert Russell, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Ph.D. Program
  • Stanley Sue, Ph.D., Professor, Director of the Center for Excellence in Diversity
    Areas of Emphasis: Mental health services to culturally-diverse groups.
  • Teceta Tormala, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Prejudice, Racial and ethnic identity processes among Black immigrants.
  • Lynn C. Waelde, PhD | Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Meditation and Psychotherapy, Trauma, Dissociation and PTSD.
  • Christopher Weaver, Ph.D., Assistant Professor & Director, Forensic Psychology Program
    Areas of Emphasis: The role that trauma and substance use play in criminal offending, the assessment of dissimulation in PTSD assessment.
  • Amy Wisniewski, Ph.D., Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Neuropsychology
  • Phillip Zimbardo, Ph.D., Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Prisons, Time, Shyness, Madness, Violence/Evil, Persuasion, Hypnosis, Dissonance, Teachine, Political Psychology, Terrorism

Associated Program Faculty

  • Matthew Cordova, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Early Intervention Clinic (www.eiclinic.org), Behavioral Medicine, General Psychotherapy
  • Luli Emmons, Ph.D., Vice President for Professional Development, Associate Professor
  • Ted Jacob, Ph.D., Research Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Family factors in the etiology of alcoholism and comorbid psychopathologies
  • Jennifer Keller, Ph.D., Research Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Intervention to Prevent Sexual Violence towards Women; Mental health care in South Asian Immigrants
  • Steven Lovett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Psychological Issues in Heart Disease & Other Chronic Illnesses
  • James Moses, Ph.D., Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Clinical Neuropsychology and Psychological Assessment
  • Craig Rosen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
    Areas of Emphasis: My health services research aims at improving processes and outcomes of mental health care, especially for people suffering from post-traumatic stress. My primary focus is evaluating VA care for veterans with psychiatric disorders.
  • Josef Ruzek, Ph.D., Associate Professor
    Areas of Emphasis: Early Intervention to Prevent Development of Trauma-Related Problems, Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for PTSD
  • Brooke Schauder, Ph.D., Director of Assessment Center, Gronowski Clinic
    Areas of Emphasis: Autism and other developmental disorders and delays, anxiety and mood assessment; learning disorder assessment, ADHD and behavioral disorder assessment, neuropsychological assessment for TBI, dementia, and other cognitive disorders
  • Naomi Wagner, Ph.D., Instructor
    Areas of Emphasis: Positive psychology, developmental psychopathology, child assessment, resilience, evolutionary psychology.

Other Contributors

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