Ethnic Minority Health
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Northwestern
Doctoral Program in
Clinical Psychology
Division of Psychology,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The doctoral
program in clinical psychology in the Northwestern University Feinberg School
of Medicine offers a research emphasis in disease prevention and risk reduction in
African-American and Hispanic populations. On average, one student per year is
sponsored.
Faculty in
this area support a variety of opportunities for student research on the
following topics:
Marian
Fitzgibbon, PhD -- Director of the Eating Disorders Program and Melinda Stolley,
Ph.D. Their research interests include health risk reduction in minorities,
heterogeneity of eating disorder patients, assessment and treatment of obesity.
Clinical interests include eating disorders, health risk reduction, treatment of obesity.
Disease
Prevention faculty members have active programs of funded research that provide
support for student studies. Current funded projects include cardiovascular
risk reduction in African Americans and Hispanics, breast cancer risk reduction
in young Hispanic women, psychological preparation for breast cancer treatment,
quality of life and utilities in prostate cancer, and quality of life in
outpatient high dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell support in breast
cancer. The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences research committee
supports faculty members and students in their fund seeking efforts.
Our faculty
and students work closely with the Northwestern University Department of
Preventive Medicine and the