Judith Carroll, Ph.D.
Titles
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Member, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
Contact Information
Work Address:
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior300 Medical Plaza, Suite 3330
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
Biography
Dr. Carroll is the Endowed Chair of the George F. Solomon Professorship in Psychobiology in the department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science. She is a faculty member of the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and leads the Aging Biology and Behavior Laboratory at the Cousins Center. Dr. Carroll received her PhD in Biological and Health Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010, and completed a NRSA postdoctoral training program in Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA before accepting her current faculty appointment at UCLA in the department of Psychiatry in 2013. Her research is focused on the links between psychological and behavioral factors with biological aging and disease risk. This research has investigated the role of sleep health in biological aging, early life adversities and aging, and the role of biobehavioral factors in cancer and aging. She has sustained research support from numerous granting agencies including the American Cancer Society, STOP Cancer, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Cancer Institute.