People

Joseph W. Ditre, Ph.D
CHB Director
Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
jwditre@syr.edu

Dessa Bergen-Cico, Ph.D., CAS, CHES
CHB Associate Director of Outreach & Collaboration
Professor, Public Health
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affair
dkbergen@syr.edu

Stephen A. Maisto, Ph.D., ABPP
CHB Associate Director of Research
Research Professor, Professor Emeritus, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
samaisto@syr.edu

Kenneth J. Marfilius, L.C.S.W., D.S.W.
CHB Associate Director of Education & Training
Faculty Director of Online Education and Strategic Initiatives
Associate Teaching Profressor, Social Work
School of Education
kjmarfil@syr.edu

Ellen M. Faigle
Administrative Specialist
Center for Health Behavior Research & Innovation
College of Arts & Sciences
efaigle@syr.edu

Bernard Appiah
Assistant Professor, Public Health
Maxwell School of Citizenship & Affairs
beappiah@syr.edu

Lynn Brann
Associate Professor, Nutrition and Food Studies
Falk College of Sport
lbrann@syr.edu

Sara E. Burke
Associate Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
Intergroup Bias Lab
sburke08@syr.edu

Catherine Cornwell
Associate Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
cacornwe@syr.edu

Daniel Corral
Assistant Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
dcorral@syr.edu

Jennifer Cornish Genovese
Graduate M.S.W. Director, Associate Teaching Professor
Social Work, School of Education
jgenoves@syr.edu

Brooks B. Gump
Falk Family Endowed Professor, Public Health
Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs
bbgump@syr.edu

Ryan D. Heath
Associate Professor, Social Work
School of Education
rdheath@syr.edu

Bryce Hruska
Associate Professor, Public Health
Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs
bjhruska@syr.edu

Brett K. Jakubiak
Associate Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
bkjakubi@syr.edu

Katie Kidwell
Assistant Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
kmkidwel@syr.edu

Elizabeth G. Kubala
Executive Director, Office of Clinical Legal Education
Director of the Betty and Michael D. Wohl Veterans Legal Clinic
Director of Veteran and Military Affairs, College of Law
egkubala@syr.edu

Jun Li
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs
jli208@syr.edu

Jianxuan Liu
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
College of Arts & Sciences
jliu193@syr.edu

Lynn Lohnas
Assistant Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
ljlohnas@syr.edu

Joon Kyung Nam
Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychology
Center for Health Behavior Research & Innovation
College of Arts & Sciences
jnam07@syr.edu

Arielle Newman
Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship
Whitman School of Management
arnewman@syr.edu

Leonard Newman
Professor, Associate Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
lsnewman@syr.edu

Charles Nudelman
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Arts & Sciences
cjnudelm@syr.edu

Jeewon Oh
Assistant Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
joh126@syr.edu

Yalian Pei
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Arts & Sciences
ypei11@syr.edu

Jamie Perry
Associate Professor, Management
Whitman School of Management
jperry10@syr.edu

Jonathan L. Preston
Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Arts & Sciences
jopresto@syr.edu

Ellyn Riley
Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Arts & Sciences
earil100@syr.edu

Lael J. Schooler
Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
lschoole@syr.edu

Bradley Seymour
Associate Teaching Professor, Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
bseymour@syr.edu

JoCarol Shields
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Exercise Science
Falk College of Sport
jshiel01@syr.edu

Carrie Jefferson Smith
Professor, Social Work
School of Education
cjsmit04@syr.edu

Yvonne Smith
Director, Associate Professor, Social Work
School of Education
ynsmith@syr.edu

Victoria Tumanova
Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Arts & Sciences
vtumanov@syr.edu

Peter A. Vanable
Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School
Professor of Psychology Department: Graduate School
Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences
pvanable@syr.edu

Kathy R. Vander Werff
Professor and Department Chair
Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Arts & Sciences
kvander@syr.edu

Margaret Althea Voss
Associate Professor, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, Affiliate Faculty Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Studies
Nutrition and Food Studies, Falk College of Sport
mavoss@syr.edu

Xiafei Wang
Associate Professor, Social Work
School of Education
xiwang@syr.edu

Barry Weiss
Special Advisor to the Office of Career Services
College of Law
bsweiss@syr.edu

Sarah Woolf-King
Associate Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
sewoolf@syr.edu

Maryam Yuhas
Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Studies
Falk College of Sport
myuhas@syr.edu

Michelle J. Zaso
Assistant Professor, Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
mjzaso@syr.edu

Nick Armstrong
R&D, Growth Leader, Cabana
nick@cabanahealth.org

Varun Gollapudi
Paramedic, United States Army
vsgollap@syr.edu

Stephen Glatt, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience and Physiology, Neuroscience Graduate Program,
Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Director of the Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory
Upstate Medical University
glatts@upstate.edu

Mary Helander, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Biomedical Informatics
Upstate Medical University
helandma@upstate.edu

Emily Johnson, PhD
Clinical Research Psychologist
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
emily.johnson1@va.gov

Dezarie Moskal, PhD
Clinical Research Director, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Health Behavior Research & Innovation
College of Arts and Sciences
dezarie.moskal@va.gov

Kyle Possemato, PhD
Associate Director for Research
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
kyle.possemato@va.gov