Previous Trainees

Date    Name Project Current appointment
1998-2000 Julie Bower, PhD Psychosocial factors in the treatment of malignancies: Coping and fatigue. Associate Professor, UCLA Dept of Psychology
2000-2002 Jonas Hannestad, MD, PhD Molecular markers of inflammation in depression. Assitant Professor Psychiatry, Yale University
2000-2002 Erin Jacobs, PhD Regulation of a myelin protein gene in the immune and nervous sytems: implications for multiple sclerosis UCLA Department of Psychiatry (2009)
2000-2002 Anna Beylin, PhD Classical conditioning of immune responses. Clinical Psychologist
2001-2001 Roberta Mancuso, PhD Effects of emotion on neuroendocrine processes. Assistant Professor of Psychology, Occidental College
2003-2005 Alicia Collado-Hidalgo, PhD Inflammatory processes in breast cancer survivors: Implications for fatigue. Research Scientist, National Genetics Institute
2003-2005 Sarosh Motivala, PhD Autonomic stress reactivity and depression in rheumatoid arthritis. Assistant Professor in Residece, UCLA Semel Institute
2003-2005 Leah Fitzgerald, PhD Cytokine genetics and cancer. Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
2005-2007 Naomi Eisenberger, PhD An FMRI Study of Cytokine-Associated depression and social pain. Assistant Professor, UCLA Dept of Psychology
2005-2007 Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD Complicated grief in older adults: Physiological underpinnings of emotion regulation. Assistant Professor, UCLA Dept of Psychiatry & Biobehvioral Sciences
2007-2008 Hyong Jin Cho, MD, PhD Inflammatory markers and risk of depression recurrence. Research Track, Psychiatry Residency at UCLA
2007-2008 David Creswell, PhD Effects of mindfulness training on neural responses to stress in older adults. Assistant Professor, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
2007-2009 KaMala Thomas, PhD Prostate cancer caregivers' health and quality of life. Assistant Professor, Psychology, Pitzer College
2008-2010 Lavinia Fiorentino, PhD Developing a new behavioral treatment for insomnia: Effects on sleep and the immune system. Post-Doc; UCSD Dept. of Psychiatry; Gillin Sleep and Chronomedicine Laboratory
2008-2010 Mary Hamby, PhD Elucidation of the epigenetic modifications present in untreated and TGF-β1-treated astrocytes and microglia. Post-Doc; UCLA Dept. of Neurobiology
2009-2010 George Slavich, PhD Psychoneuroimmunology of life stress, social rejection, and depression Adjunct Asst Professor, UCLA Semel Inst