Our faculty come from a wide range of training backgrounds, including developmental psychology, health psychology, social psychology, affective neuroscience, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, industrial/organizational psychology, and human factors psychology.
Core Faculty
Bryan Denny, Ph.D. (Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience/Health Psychology)
Assistant Professor
- Health interests: emotion regulation, translational social cognitive and affective neuroscience, health neuroscience
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Chris Fagundes, Ph.D.* (Health Psychology/Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience)
Professor
- Health interests: psychoneuroimmunology, autonomic psychophysiology, health behaviors, biobehavioral interventions, health neuroscience
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Luz Garcini, Ph.D. (Health Psychology/Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience)
Assistant Professor (starting August 2022)
- Health interests: health disparities, health behaviors, psychoneuroimmunology, biobehavioral interventions, widowhood, caregiving, community-engaged research, trauma and loss, immigrant health
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* Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine Area Head/Primary Contact
Affiliate Faculty
Margaret Beier, Ph.D. (Industrial & Organizational Psychology)
Professor
- Health interests: aging and occupational health
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Pat DeLucia, Ph.D. (Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction)
Associate Dean, School of Social Science, Professor of Psychological Sciences
- Health interests: medical human factors
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Mikki Hebl, Ph.D. (Industrial & Organizational Psychology)
Professor, Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Chair of Psychology
- Health interests: social health psychology, health disparities, discrimination in the workplace
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Eden King, Ph.D. (Industrial & Organizational Psychology)
Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Psychology
- Health interests: occupational health psychology, discrimination in the workplace and its impact on health, health disparities
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Stephanie Leal, Ph.D. (Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience)
Assistant Professor
- Health interests: aging, depression, stress & emotion impacts on cognition, translational neuroscience
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Randi Martin, Ph.D. (Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience)
Elma Schneider Professor of Psychology
- Health interests: repercussions of stroke on language
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Fred Oswald, Ph.D. (Industrial & Organizational Psychology)
Professor, Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Director of Graduate Studies
- Health interests: quantitative methods (structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, meta analysis, psychometrics) and health outcomes
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Local Affiliates
Akane Sano, Ph.D. (Rice University; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Ashutosh Sabharwal, Ph.D. (Rice University; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Anthony Brandt, Ph.D. (Rice University; Shepherd School of Music)
Cobi Heijnen, Ph.D. (MD Anderson; Department of Symptom Research)
Robert Dantzer, Ph.D. (MD Anderson; Department of Symptom Research)
Annemieke Kavelaars, Ph.D. (MD Anderson; Department of Symptom Research)
Sean Savitz, MD (UT Health; Department of Neurology)
Chuck Green, Ph.D. (UT Health; Department of Pediatrics)
Christof Karmonik, Ph.D. (Houston Methodist Research Institute, Translational Imaging)
Mei Rui, DMA. (Houston Methodist Hospital, Center for Performing Arts Medicine)
Todd Frazier, M.A. (Houston Methodist Hospital, Center for Performing Arts Medicine)