Global Stress & Mental Health Network

The UCLA Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research is home to the Global Stress & Mental Health Network, a group of leading scientists who are leveraging the power of cutting-edge tools from psychology, neuroscience, immunology, molecular biology, genetics, and genomics to help identify psychological and biological mechanisms that can be targeted to expediate the development of new cures for mental health disorders, which are presently one of our most common and costly public health issues worldwide. The Network is Directed by Dr. George Slavich and aims to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and promote open science initiatives to maximize the scientific and societal impact of groundbreaking mental health research. Network members have collaborated with Dr. Slavich to accelerate biomedical discoveries that have helped elucidate how experiences of stress and other biobehavioral factors affect brain-body interactions, which in turn have broad implications for understanding the pathophysiology of a variety of different neuropsychiatric, physical, and somatic conditions that dominate present day morbidity and mortality rates. We welcome new collaborators and encourage you to reach out at any time with an idea, proposal, or just to say hi.

Domestic Collaborative Investigators

Ian H. Gotlib, Ph.D. Stanford University	Carrie E. Bearden, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles	Diego A. Pizzagalli, Ph.D. McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Joan Luby, M.D. Washington University in St. Louis	Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin–Madison	Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Owen M. Wolkowitz, M.D. University of California, San Francisco	Avram J. Holmes, Ph.D. Yale University	Michael T. Treadway, Ph.D. Emory University
Michael P. Snyder, Ph.D. Stanford University	Megan R. Gunnar, Ph.D. University of Minnesota	Robert M. Bilder, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Tor D. Weger, Ph.D. Duke University	Tiffany Cheing Ho, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco	Mitchell J. Prinstein, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth A. Phelps, Ph.D. New York University	Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Ph.D. Ohio State University	Ellissa S. Epel, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco
Jutta Joormann, Ph.D. Yale University	Greg Hajcak, Ph.D. Florida State University	Randy P. Auerbach, Ph.D. Columbia University
Michael J. Zvolensky, Ph.D. University of Houston	Kristin N. Javaras, Ph.D. McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School	Yakeel T. Quiroz-Gaviria, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital
Jenalee R. Doom, Ph.D. University of Denver	Erika Manczak, Ph.D. University of Denver	Naomi I. Eisenberger, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Melynda D. Casement, Ph.D. University of Oregon	April D. Thames, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles	Aidan G.C. Wright, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Malat, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati	Rebecca Klatzkin, Ph.D. Rhodes College	Stewart A. Shankman, Ph.D Northwestern University
Stephen B. Manuck, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	Joshua F. Wiley, Ph.D. Australian Catholic University	Tara L. Gruenewald, Ph.D. University of Southern California
Theodore F. Robles, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles	Pablo A. Nepomnaschy, Ph.D. Simon Fraser University	Candace M. Raio, Ph.D. New York University
Satrajit S. Ghosh, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Donald W. Bowden, Ph.D. Wake Forest School of Medicine	Rachel L. Moseley, Ph.D. Bournemouth University
Sandra E. Sephton, Ph.D. University of Louisville	Allison Halt University of Missouri	Susan R. Torres-Harding, Ph.D. Roosevelt University
Paul W. Glimcher, Ph.D. New York University	Heather L. Urry, Ph.D. Tufts University	Crystal M. Epstein University of Nebraska Medical Center
Bruce E. Compas, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Stacey B. Scott, Ph.D. Stony Brook University	Nicole Desrosier Trinity College
Jean E. Schaffer, M.D. Washington University School of Medicine	Anthony C. Ruocco, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Scarborough	Mark F. Lenzenweger, Ph.D. State University of New York at Binghamton
David Farabee, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles	Jennifer J. Manly, Ph.D. Columbia University Medical Center	Michael R. Irwin, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Michelle L. Byrne, Ph.D. University of Oregon	Anna E.F. Weinberg, Ph.D. McGill University	John C. Morgan, M.D., Ph.D. Medical College of Georgia
Linda W. Janusek, Ph.D., RN Loyola University Chicago	Eileen H. Shinn, Ph.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center	Hannah M.C. Schreier, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Steven M. Brunwasser, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University	Roxann Roberson-Nay, Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Sarah Nowalis, M.A. Rochester Institute of Technology	Samuele Zilioli, Ph.D. Wayne State University	Catherine R. Glenn, Ph.D. University of Rochester
Cristian Sirbu, Ph.D. West Virginia University School of Medicine	Julie A. Dumas, Ph.D. University of Vermont	Johnny Vanuk University of Arizona
Jori A. Berger-Greenstein, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine	L. Elliot Hong, M.D. University of Maryland School of Medicine	Jill Portnoy, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Lowell
Brady D. Nelson, Ph.D. Stony Brook University	Will Hamilton, Ph.D. Asheville Integrated Behavioral Health	Tony W. Buchanan, Ph.D. Saint Louis University
Sunita K. Patel, Ph.D. City of Hope Medical Center	Dr. Kelly R. Rossetto Boise State University	Greg Miller, Ph.D. Northwestern University
Clifford D. Saron, Ph.D. UC Davis MIND Institute	Martin Picard, Ph.D. Columbia University	Dr. Yashar Khosroshahi, ND, ACC Mind Body Performance
Josiane L. Broussard, Ph.D. University of Colorado	Tory A. Eisenlohr-Moul, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago	Patrick R. Steffen, Ph.D., BCB Brigham Young University
Javiera P. Oyarzun, Ph.D. New York University	Melanie Brown, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Jennifer B. Permuth, PhD, MS Moffitt Cancer Center
Mercedes Carnethon, Ph.D., FAHA Northwestern University	Kristen L. Knutson, PhD Northwestern University	Katherine A. Bowers, Ph.D., MPH Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Emily A.P. Haigh, Ph.D. University of Maine	James L. Griffith, M.D. George Washington University	Anna Konova, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Fabiano Nery, MD, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati	Teresa Smith University of Cincinnati	Kunmi Sobowale, MD Yale University
Tamara Newton, Ph.D. University of Louisville	Giulio M. Pasinetti, MD, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Lindsay Kobayashi, Ph.D. Georgetown University
Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH Georgetown University	Daniel A. Hackman, Ph.D. University of Southern California	Cinnamon Stetler, Ph.D. Furman University
Kristin Bernard, Ph.D. Stony Brook University	Mary L. Woody, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	Mary C. Sullivan, Ph.D., RN, FAAN University of Rhode Island
Michele D. Kipke, Ph.D. Children's Hospital Los Angeles	Sarah C. McEwen, Ph.D., NSCA-CPT Pacific Neuroscience Institute	Lindsay Fourman-Nissim, MD Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kaigang Li, Ph.D. Colorado State University	Nestor Lopez-Duran, Ph.D University of Michigan	Luke W. Hyde, Ph.D. University of Michigan
Patrick Steffen, Ph.D. Brigham Young University	Cynthia Rogers, M.D. Washington University School of Medicine	Hayley Dorfman, Ph.D. Harvard University
Patti E. Gravitt, Ph.D. University of Maryland	Diane M. Quinn, Ph.D. University of Connecticut	Madeline Li, MD, Ph.D. Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Lori N. Scott, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	Lauren Houghton, Ph.D., MSc Columbia University	Anna Reebs, MA, MSc University of Haifa
Gary M. Rodin, MD, FRCPC Princess Margaret Cancer Centre	Sarah M. Lofgren, MD University of Minnesota	Carri Shaw, BSN RN CEN University of Michigan
Julienne E. Bower, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles	Andres De Los Reyes, Ph.D. University of Maryland	Grant S. Shields, M.A. University of California, Davis
Brie M. Reid, Ph.D. University of Minnesota	Sara Bybee, LCSW University of Utah Health	Hector A. Olvera, Ph.D. University of Texas
Catherine E. Bolten, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame	Rachel Vaughn-Coaxum, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	Laurie Sykes Tottenham, Ph.D. University of Regina
D. Erik Everhart, Ph.D., ABPP East Carolina University	Emily C. Merz, Ph.D. Colorado State University	Christine L. Larson, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Susan K. Lutgendorf, Ph.D. University of Iowa	Loren L. Toussaint, Ph.D.  Luther College	Maria E. Bleil, Ph.D. University of Washington
Timothy A. Allen, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	Steven D. Pratscher, Ph.D. University of Florida	Maria Barnes-Davis, M.D., Ph.D. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

International Collaborative Investigators

Milton J. Cazassa Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil	Gunjan Joshi King George's Medical University India	Alberto Collazzoni, Ph.D. University of L' Aquila Italy
Francisco MS Cardoso, Ph.D. University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro Portugal	Rosangela Bertelli University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro Portugal	Svitlana Avramchenko, Ph.D. Cherkasy National University, Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Ukraine
Cornelia Rada, Ph.D. Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology Romania	Stefania Rosca Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Romania	Rimovecz Cristina Klari West University in Timisoara Romania
Ibrahim Yiğit, Ph.D. Baskent University Turkey	Melike Guzey Ankara University Turkey	Hale Yapıcı Eser, M.D., Ph.D. Koç University School of Medicine Turkey
Dora Kirigin M.S. Clinical Hospital Centre Split Croatia	Dolores Britvic, M.D. University of Split Croatia	Pål Kraft,Ph.D. University of Oslo Norway
Zahir Vally, Ph.D United Arab Emirates University United Arab Emirates	Tone Gretland Valderhaug, M.D., Ph.D. Akershus University Hospital Norway	Laiana Quagliato, M.D. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Mario A. Rosero P, Ph.D. Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga Colombia	Nicolas Rohleder,Ph.D. Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Germany	Rudy Leon De Wilde, MD Pius-Hospital Oldenburg Germany
David Fletcher, Ph.D. Loughborough University United Kingdom	Kimberly Dienes, Ph.D. University of Manchester United Kingdom	Julie M. Turner-Cobb, Ph.D. Bournemouth University United Kingdom
Hannah L. Graham Loughborough University United Kingdom	Lee Moore University of Bath United Kingdom	Ella McLoughlin University of Bath United Kingdom
Darren Hedley, Ph.D. La Trobe University Australia	Lisa-Marie Greenwood, Ph.D. University of Wollongong Australia	Zoltan Pataky, MD University Hospitals of Geneva Switzerland
Ikenna C. Eze, MD Ph.D. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute France	Mohammadali Amini-Tehrani University of Tehran Iran	Roland von Känel, M.D. Clinic Barmelweid Switzerland