Alex Carballo-Dieguez, PhD Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
Reserch Scientist, NYSPI
Division: HIV Center
Fellowship: Behavioral Sciences Research in HIV Infection
Research Interests: HIV
Alex Carballo-Diéguez, Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also Associate Director and senior Research Scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at New York State Psychiatric Institute. His research focuses on primary prevention of HIV transmission: Acceptability ...
Carol Caton, PhD Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry)
Director, Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies, Mailman School of Public Health
Division: Mental Health Services and Policy Research
Fellowship: Schizophrenia Reseach Fellowship
Research Interests: Services Research
Research interests include studies of community adjustment in schizophrenia, epidemiological and treatment studies of psychosis and substance use comorbidity,and strategies for preventing homelessness among people with severe mental illness.
Patricia Cohen, PhD Professor, Epidemiology
Division: Epidemiology
Fellowship: Affective and Related Disorders, Psychiatric Epidemiology
Research Interests: Epidemiology
Patricia Cohen is a social psychologist-psychiatric epidemiologist with a long-term interest in methodological issues such as multilevel extensions of regression techniques, reliable and valid narrative interviews, and issues related to the timing of causal effects. In addition, much of Cohen's research has focused on the Children in the Community ...
Pamela Collins, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Psychiatry
Director, Interdepartmental Global Health Track, Mailman School of Public Health
Division: Epidemiology of Dev. Brain Disorders
Fellowship: Behavioral Sciences Research in HIV Infection, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Schizophrenia Reseach Fellowship
Research Interests: Epidemiology, HIV
My research seeks to 1) understand how cultural context shapes behavior, emotional response, and the expression of mental illness, and 2) develop contextually relevant interventions locally and globally.
Cheryl Corcoran, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Director, Center of Prevention and Evaluation, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Division: Cognitive Neuroscience
Fellowship: Janssen Fellowship in Translational Neuroscience, Schizophrenia Reseach Fellowship
Research Interests: Cognitive Systems/Neuroscience, Schizophrenia
Dr. Corcoran is the Director of the Center of Prevention and Evaluation (COPE), a longitudinal cohort study of young people who are at increased risk for psychosis, as compared to their peers. Her goal is to study this risk state such that we can better understand who is truly at risk and how best to help them.
