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 |
| 2011-2012 | Michael Jarcho, PhD | Mechanisms linking social rejection and depression: hormonal, neural, and immunological. | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, University of Iowa |
| 2011-2012 | Yvette Milazzo, MD | Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Insulin-like-growth Factor-I | Psychiatrist, S.D. Dept. of Mental Health |
| 2010-2012 | Jude Carroll, PhD | Sleep, inflammation and cellular aging and the link to late life depression. | Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior |
| 2011-2013 | David Black, PhD | RCT of mindful awareness practices for sleep problems in older adults (MAPS study) | Assistant Professor of Preventative Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine |
| 2013-2014 | Sarah Ormseth, PhD | Behavioral treatments for rheumatoid arthritis | Research Scientist, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior |
| 2013-2014 | Hyong Jin Cho, MD, PhD | Sleep disturbances as a vulnerability factor for inflammation-induced depressed mood | Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior |
| 2010-2015 | Donald Lamkin, PhD | Molecular mechanisms of stress effects on leukemia | Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior |
| 2015-2016 | Eric Lopez Maya, PhD | Randomized control trial of a mindfulness-based intervention on stress-related inflammation biomarkers and executive control |
Visiting Project Scientist |
| 2015-2016 | Katie Chun, PhD | Perceived Social Isolation and Neuro-Immune Mechanisms |
Post-Doctoral Fellow in PNI |
| 2015-2016 | Kate Ryan Kuhlman, PhD | Childhoold trauma exposure and depression: Neuroendocrine and inflammatory mechanisms |
Post-Doctoral Fellow in PNI |
| 2015-2016 | Gemma Archer (PhD expected 2016) | Multicenter AIDS cohort study / women's interagency HIV study |
Visiting Graduate Reseracher |
| 2017-2018 | Alberto Collazzoni, PhD | Transcultural study on the stress in Italian and American samples | Visiting Project Scientist |
| 2017-2018 | Milton Cazassa, PhD | Translation and adaptation of the Stress Adversity Inventory (STRAIN) to the Brazilian reality | Visiting Graduate Researcher |
