Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences: Faculty Experts: For Journalists

Dr. Alexandra Aaronson

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Psychiatric Disorders

Ivan Alekseichuk

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Depression and Anxiety, Memory, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Precision Medicine, Psychiatric Disorders

Cara Angelotta

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Mental Health, Postpartum Health, Reproductive Health, Women's Health

Sara Becker

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Alice Hamilton Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Public Health

Focus Areas: Addiction and Substance Use, Behavior Change, Innovation

Rinad Beidas

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor and Chair of Medical Social Sciences

Field: Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Public Health

Focus Areas: Behavioral Economics, Implementation Science, Mental Health

Christina Boisseau

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Depression and Anxiety, Mental Health, Psychiatric Disorders

Michael Brook

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Public Health

Focus Areas: Criminology, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Public Policy, Social Justice, Violent Crime and Prevention

Sheehan D. Fisher

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at The Graduate School, Northwestern University

Field: Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Sociology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Child Psychology, Health Equity and Disparities, Men’s Health, Mental Health, Postpartum Health, Race and Ethnicity, Women's Health

Jacqueline Gollan

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Cognitive Therapy, Decision Making, Depression and Anxiety, Psychological Counseling, Stress

Sara Hoffman Marchese

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology)

Field: Gastroenterology, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology

Focus Areas: Bariatric Surgery, Behavior Change, Cognitive Therapy, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Lifestyle and Wellness, Obesity, Stress

Dr. Marco Martina

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor of Neuroscience

Field: Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Biophysics, Chronic Pain, Neuroscience

Jennifer Mundt

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Director, Behavioral Sleep Medicine Lab

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Sleep Medicine

Focus Areas: Insomnia, Mental Health, Sleep, Sleep Disorders

Jaclyn L. Papadakis

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychaitry & Behavioral Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Childhood Development, Child Psychology, Depression and Anxiety, Medical Quality of Life, Mental Health, Pediatric Illness, Psychological Counseling

Jones Parker

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Neurology, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Addiction and Substance Use, Antidepressant Medications, Neurobiology, Neurodegenerative Disease, Neuroscience, Parkinson's Disease, Schizophrenia, Therapeutics

Timothy Pearman

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor, Medical Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Integrative Medicine, Medical Social Sciences, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Cancer Survivorship, Depression and Anxiety, Gynecologic Cancer, Lifestyle and Wellness, Lymphoma, Medical Quality of Life, Mental Health, Oncofertility, Pancreatic Cancer, Psychological Counseling

Paul Pendler

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Depression and Anxiety, Employee wellness and burnout, Healthcare Industry, Lifestyle and Wellness, Mental Health

Dr. Lisa J. Rosenthal

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education

Field: Medical Ethics, Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Employee wellness and burnout, Mental Health, Psychiatric Disorders

Stewart Shankman

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of psychology and behavioral sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology

Focus Areas: Clinical Research, Cognitive Therapy, Depression and Anxiety, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychological Counseling, Stress

Darius Tandon

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Medical Social Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Public Health

Focus Areas: Cognitive Therapy, Community Health, Depression and Anxiety, Mental Health, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychological Counseling

Linda Teplin

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Addiction and Substance Use, Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, Healthcare Policy, Health Equity and Disparities, HIV/AIDS, Incarceration, Mental Health, Psychiatric Disorders, Public Health Policy, Public Policy, Violent Crime and Prevention

Kathryn Tomasino

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Field: Gastroenterology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology

Focus Areas: Bariatric Surgery, Chronic Pain, Depression and Anxiety, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Lifestyle and Wellness, Mental Health, Mind-Body Medicine , Obesity, Pain Management, Psychological Counseling, Stress, Therapy and Counseling, Women's Health

Alyssa M Vela

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Division of Cardiac Surgery)

Field: Cardiology, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Surgery

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Cardiovascular Health, Depression and Anxiety, Eating Disorders, Heart Transplant, Lifestyle and Wellness, Stress

Dr. Jonathon William Wanta

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor in the Prtizkey Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Field: Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: ADD and ADHD, Autism, Depression and Anxiety, Stress

Leah J. Welty

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine - Biostatistics

Field: Data Science, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Data Bias, Data Science, Data Visualization, Health Equity and Disparities, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Statistics and probability

Dr. Katherine L. Wisner

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Norman and Helen Asher Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Field: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Bipolar Disorder, Depression and Anxiety, Mental Health, Postpartum Health, Women's Health