Faculty
Psychologists |
Psychiatrists | Postdoctoral Fellows |
Interns and Graduate Students |
Staff
Psychologists
W. Edward Craighead, Ph.D., ABPP
Dr. Craighead received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1970. Beginning in 1970, he rose through the academic ranks to become Professor of Psychology in 1979 at Pennsylvania State University, where he served for many years as Director of Clinical Training. He became a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center in 1986 and was also Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training. In 1995, he moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder where he was Professor, Director of Clinical Training, and Department Chair (2003-2006). In 2006, he moved to Emory University where he is a Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Craighead has served as President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Clinical Division of the American Psychological Association (Society of Clinical Psychology). He has been Editor of Behavior Therapy and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. At Emory, he holds the J. Rex Fuqua Chair, is a Professor of Distinction, and is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Mood Program (CAMP).
Dr. Craighead’s research, which focuses on mood disorders, has been funded for several years by NIMH and private Foundations. Over the past three decades, his work has focused on cognitive behavioral models of Major Depression and Bipolar Disorders. He continues his work on the prevention of the first episode of depression with his colleague Eirikur Arnarson in Iceland, and they have recently begun work on a similar prevention study in Portugal. He and his colleague, David Miklowitz, and his wife, Linda Craighead, (who is an Emory Professor of Psychology) have recently published a graduate level Psychopathology book.
Curriculum Vitae
Cynthia L. Ramirez, Ph.D.
Dr. Ramirez received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2003. She was a professor of psychology at Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador, until 2008, when she became a postdoctoral fellow at Emory. Dr. Ramirez specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy with adolescents and adults. Her research interests include empirically supported treatment for depressed and/or emotionally dysregulated adolescents and Latino mental health ssues. Dr. Ramirez is fluent in Spanish.
Lorie A. Ritschel, Ph.D.
Dr. Ritschel received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2006. She completed her predoctoral internship and one year of postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, and she came to Emory to complete an additional postdoctoral fellowship in adolescent mental health under the direction of Dr. Craighead. She joined the faculty at Emory in 2008. Dr. Ritschel specializes in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and emotion dysregulation in adolescents and adults. Clinically, she specializes in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and she is a national trainer of DBT. She is particularly interested in non-suicidal self-injury (e.g., cutting) as an emotion regulation strategy. Her research interests include:
- Treatment outcomes research for problems with depression and emotion regulation, with particular interest in (a) predictor variables, (b) treatment-refractory populations, and (c) the development of novel treatment approaches
- Emotion dysregulation and emotion regulation strategies, particularly non-suicidal self-injury
- Positive psychology constructs, including hope and mindfulness, and their impact on therapeutic outcomes
J. Steven Snow, Ph.D.
Dr. Snow received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1984. Since receiving his degree, Dr. Snow has had extensive clinical experience working with children, adolescents, families, and adults in a variety of outpatient and hospital based settings. Dr. Snow provides psychotherapy services with clients ranging in age from elementary school age children and their families, through adulthood.
After leaving his private practice in Durham, North Carolina in the summer of 2007, Dr. Snow joined the Child and Adolescent Mood Program at Emory University. In the CAMP clinic, Dr. Snow provides psychotherapy and assessments with children and adolescents, as well as participating in providing services as part of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy program. Dr. Snow often works with children and adolescents with anxiety, depression, mood regulation problems, and difficulties with behavioral self-control. Dr. Snow uses a variety of therapeutic approaches based on many years of clinical experience, with a primary focus in Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
In addition to his position at CAMP, Dr. Snow is a clinical supervisor in the Psychological Center in the Department of Psychology at Emory University. In the Psychological Center, he supervises psychotherapy and psychological assessment services provided by doctoral level graduate students.
Psychiatrists
Vivianne Aponte-Rivera, M.D.
Dr. Aponte-Rivera is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who has been part of the Emory family since 2006 when she joined Emory University as a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow and later as a faculty member. She completed her medical school and general psychiatry residency training at the University of Puerto Rico, where she was also chief resident. Dr. Aponte Rivera specializes in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Her approach to treatment integrates thorough psychiatric evaluations and evidence based interventions delivered in an interdisciplinary manner. Dr. Aponte-Rivera is bilingual (English/Spanish) and bicultural. Her research interests include the children of depressed parents and the culturally competent care of Hispanic children and their families.
Maryann (Priya) Jacob, M.D.
Dr. Jacob has been an Assistant Professor at Emory University since 2006. Her roles include teaching medical students, residents, and fellows in a formal didactic setting as well as in their clinical rotations. At CAMP, Dr. Jacob conducts individual therapy and medication management and specializes in depressive, bipolar, and anxiety disorders. Her research interests are in empirically supported treatments of mood disorders as well as using technology to reach underserved patient populations. Dr. Jacob graduated from medical school in 2000 from the American University of the Caribbean, completed her adult residency at Temple University, and finished her training through her fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Northwestern's Children's Memorial Hospital in 2005. She is board certified in Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Rosario Morillo Falero, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Rosario Morillo Falero is originally from Venezuela, where she received her M.D. degree. From early in her medical career she became interested in studying the relationship between stress and disease and the ways in which mood regulation and stress management can affect our health. Guided by her interests, Dr. Falero completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at University of Miami, with a focus on Health Psychology and Psychoneuroimmunology. Dr. Falero’s research has focused on the role of social support and group interventions in buffering our HPA-axis (stress response) and our immune system. Before joining our team, Dr. Falero completed a year-long training as a Behavioral Medicine Fellow, at the Cambridge Health Alliance - Harvard Medical School. Dr. Falero is an advocate of studying and reducing Health Disparities and is particularly interested in Diabetes and Mental Health in Hispanics living in the United States. Clinically, she is trained in several modalities of therapy including DBT, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, Biofeedback, Hypnosis and Solution Focused Therapy. She specializes in treating adults and older adolescents with depression and anxiety disorders.
Noriel (Nori) Lim, Ph.D.
Dr. Lim was born in the Philippines and raised in Los Angeles, California. He studied Psychology and Anthropology as an undergraduate student at the University of California at Berkeley. Upon completion of his B.A. in 2003, he headed to the Midwest to pursue Clinical Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to receiving his doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology in 2011, he completed a year-long internship training in the Clinical Child Psychology Track at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Dr. Lim's research and clinical intervention interests include child/adolescent development, depression and anxiety disorders, parenting practices and family functioning, and cross-cultural psychology, with a particular focus on Asian and Latino immigrant mental health.
Diana I. Simeonova, Dipl.-Psych., Ph.D.
Originally from Bulgaria, Dr. Simeonova received her undergraduate and Dipl.-Psych. graduate degrees in 1) Clinical Psychology, 2) Work, Industrial, and Organizational Psychology, and 3) Psychiatry at the University of Hamburg in Germany. She then worked in clinical and NIMH-funded research settings in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University, California. This work focused on depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorders. During her M.A. and Ph.D. studies in Clinical Psychology at Emory University, she gained additional clinical and research experience with schizophrenia and psychosis prodrome, developmental psychobiology and psychopathology, and cognitive-affective neuroscience. Clinically, Dr. Simeonova works within a broad, integrative framework that merges various evidence-based treatment perspectives. Dr. Simeonova's clinical research program is focused on children and adolescents with bipolar disorder and those at high familial risk for developing the illness with emphasis on three main areas: 1) prevention and early intervention; 2) identification of biomarkers and psychosocial indices of risk and resilience for early-onset bipolar disorder; and 3) characterization of the developmental trajectory of the bipolar prodrome in children and adolescents. Dr. Simeonova is fluent in Bulgarian, German, and Russian.
Lindsay M. Stewart, Ph.D.
Dr. Stewart graduated with B.A. degrees in psychology and Spanish at the University of Virginia in 2003. She completed her graduate studies in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida, where she received her M.S. in 2005 and her Ph.D. in 2010. For her year-long internship, Dr. Stewart conducted assessment and therapy for children and adolescents with behavioral, emotional, and medical conditions at the John Hopkins School of Medicine/Kennedy Krieger Institute. Her clinical work and research has focused within the clinical child and pediatric area of specialty. As a postdoctoral fellow at CAMP, Dr. Stewart specializes in administering diagnostic interviews, working as a liason with Atlanta-area schools, and conducting therapy with anxious and depressed children and adolescents.
Alexandra (Sasha) Zagoloff, Ph.D.
Dr. Zagoloff is returning to Emory University having received her B.A. in psychology here in 2004. After leaving Emory, she received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2010. Dr. Zagoloff completed a child and adolescent internship at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. She has been trained in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Parent and Family Skills Training. Her research interests include empirically supported treatment for depressed and anxious youth and adults.
Interns and Graduate Students
Amanda Brown, M.A.
Colleen Cowperthwaite, B.A.
Anjana Murahlidharan, M.A.
Lisa Smith, M.A.
Daniel Yoo, B.A.
Staff
Jenn Moore, M.A., Research Interviewer
John Cooley, B.A., Study Coordinator
Chris Sheppard, B.A., Study Coordinator
Jacqueline Larson, B.A., Study Coordinator
Lisa Page, Administrative Assistant
Carolyn Algarra, Administrative Assistant
Robin Gordon, Administrative Assistant
