Behar, Evelyn
Assistant Professor
BSB  1050B
(312) 413-5564
Email: behar@uic.edu

(Penn State University, 2005) Anxiety disorders (especially GAD, panic, PTSD); affective, physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal correlates of anxiety; comorbidity between anxiety and mood, sleep, and sexual disorders; psychotherapy treatment and process research.

Grimm, Larry
Emeritus Associate Professor
BSB  1050A
(312) 996-2701
Email: lgrimm@uic.edu

Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979). The development of a multidimensional model of affect intensity; psychopathology, emotional intelligence and leadership training.
Not currently sponsoring students for graduate study

Herbener, Ellen
Assistant Professor
BSB  1046A
(312) 413-2638
Email: herbener@uic.edu

(Harvard University, 1992) Schizophrenia; Psychosis; anhedonia and avolition; emotional processing, cognition-emotion integration, neuroimaging.

Kassel, Jon David
Professor
BSB  1018C
(312) 413-9162
Email: jkassel@uic.edu

(University of Pittsburgh, 1995). Drug's effects on emotion and attention, individual differences in drug dependence, cognitive models of depression, anxiety and drug use, ecological momentary assessment.

McKirnan, David J.
Associate Professor
BSB  1058 B
(312) 413-2634
Email: davidmck@uic.edu

(McGill University, 1978). Social Behavioral medicine; health psychology; AIDS-related behavior; sex roles and sexual orientation; social psychological aspects of alcohol and drug abuse/use; cognitive processes in motivation and behavior change; field research methodology.

Mermelstein, Robin J.
Professor and Co-Director of Clinical Training
WROB  528
(312) 996-3036
Email: robinm@uic.edu

(University of Oregon, 1984). Behavioral medicine; adolescent health behaviors and smoking; smoking cessation; health psychology; cancer prevention; health promotion.

Ruderman, Audrey J.
Co-Director of OAPS and Co-Director of Clinical Training
BSB  3010
(312) 413-2636
Email: ruderman@uic.edu

(Rutgers-The State University, 1981). Etiology and treatment of eating disorder; obesity; health psychology; behavioral medicine.

Shankman, Stewart
Assistant Professor
BSB  1062D
(312) 355-3812
Email: stewarts@uic.edu

(Stony Brook University, 2005) mood disorders; neurobehavioral processes that lead and relate to mood disorders; relation between mood and anxiety disorders; integration of clinical and neuropsychological/neuroscience approaches to the study of psychopathology.

Sweeney, John A
Professor
912 S. Wood Street, Room 261  NPI-N
(312) 413-9205
Email: sweeneyj@uic.edu

(University of Syracuse, 1980). Neurocognitive assessment, neuroimaging and psychopathology; cortical control of eye movement.

Birman, Dina
Associate Professor
BSB  1062 A
(312) 413-2637
Email: dbirman@uic.edu

(University of Maryland, 1991). Acculturation, adaptation, and mental health of refugee and immigrant children, youth, and families, parent involvement in school, ethnic identity, and school-based mental health interventions.

Bottoms, Bette L.
Professor
BSB  1046B
(312) 413-2635
Email: bbottoms@uic.edu

(SUNY at Buffalo, 1992). Psychology and Law: Children's Eyewitness Testimony, Jurors' Perceptions of Child Victims and Offenders, Child Abuse and Neglect, Allegations of Repressed Memory.

Cervone, Daniel P.
Professor
BSB  1008
(312) 413-2632
Email: dcervone@uic.edu

(Stanford University, 1985). Cognitive processes in motivation and behavior change; self-efficacy; goal setting and performance; affect and cognition.

Porges, Stephen
Profesor of Psychiatry
PI 
(312) 355-1557
Email: sporges@uic.edu

Department of Psychiatry
(Michigan State University, 1970). The neurobiology of social engagement behaviors and the neural regulation of affective and behavioral states with a focus on the autonomic nervous system. Interests in clinical disorders including autism, depression, and anxiety that have compromised social engagement behaviors.