Behavior Change: Faculty Experts: For Journalists

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 Abuse, Behavior Change, Innovation

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, Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychological Counseling

Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Neurology

Field: Aging, Communications, Music, Neurology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Improvisation , Medical Imaging, Mental Health, Music Theory and Composition, Neurobiology, Neurodegenerative Disease, Neuroscience, Telemedicine

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, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Gender Diversity and Equality, 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

Claudia Haase

School of Education and Social Policy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and (by courtesy) Psychology

Field: Aging, Human Development, Psychology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Mental Health, Parenting , Physiology, Social Psychology, Stress

Dr. Robert F. Kushner

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor, Departments of Medicine and Medical Education

Field: Education, Preventive Medicine

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Lifestyle and Wellness, Nutrition, Obesity

Loran Nordgren

Kellogg School of Management

Professor of Management & Organizations

Field: Management and Organizations

Focus Areas: Behavioral Economics, Behavior Change, Decision Making, Influence and Persuasion, Leadership Theory and Practice, Negotiation Tactics, Organizational Culture

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

Beth Redbird

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Field: Sociology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Economic Inequality, Income Gap, Income Mobility, Indigenous Culture, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Social Safety Net, Socioeconomics

Madison Shea Smith

Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Research Assistant Professor

Field: Computational Social Science, Data Science, Medical Social Sciences, Psychology

Focus Areas: Addiction and Substance Abuse, Behavior Change, Clinical Research, Data Science, Discrimination, Domestic Violence, Eating Disorders, Family Dynamics, Gender Diversity and Equality, Gender Identity, Health Disparities, HIV/AIDS, Inequality, Intersectionality, LGBTQ Health, Mental Health, Personality and Identity Construction, Psychological Counseling, Relationships, Reproductive Health, Research Methods, Sexual Assault, Sexual Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Social Networks, Statistics and probability

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

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